September 2023 meeting: The No Name Nursery with Steve Edney

Following on the heels of a very successful Summer Show, our September meeting is upon us. Doors open from 7pm for a 7.30 start next Monday 4th September. Tea and coffee will be served and you can buy tickets for the plant raffle. Please come along with some pound coins to buy one or two, as proceeds from the raffle go towards meeting the cost of the hall hire. Tickets for the PPML will be on sale too.

This will be the last plant stall of the year. You are very welcome to bring named plants to sale – preferably priced. Please remember to check at the end and take home any unsold plants. Thanks to all those who supported the plant stall this year by bringing plants to sell and of course, buying them.

Our speaker this evening is Steve Edney, gardener and plantsman. Steve will be talking to us about setting up the No Name Nursery near Sandwich in Kent and some of the plants involved in the journey.

Steve was the former Head Gardener at The Salutation in Kent for 17 years. He serves on the RHS Herbaceous Committee and won a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2019.

The nursery was set up by Steve and his wife Louise Dowle out of a desire to share great garden plants with fellow garden lovers. It is set on a 3 acre site which is designed as a plant playground for growing and testing plants with the aim of sharing these plants for sale in a sustainable way. They hold 4 national collections of plants: persicaris virginiana cvs, dark leaved dahlias, pseudopanax cvs and plectranthus.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday!