Category: garden talks
July Meeting – Orchids
In a change to the programme our speaker on the 4th July will be Tom Price who is an orchid expert and a member of the Cheltenham Orchid Society. Tom will be talking to us about growing orchids and will hope to answer all your questions about feeding, …
June Meeting – The Greatest Gardening Tips in the World
Our June meeting, at 7:30 on the 6th June, sees us being enlightened by Steve Brookes with ‘The greatest gardening tips on the world!’. Steve, a BBC radio & TV gardening presenter, will reflect on 35 years’ collecting amazing, innovative and eco-fr …
May Meeting – Within These Walls
Richard Adams Kitchen Garden May’s talk, on the 2nd May, is by Steven Desmond, a Chartered Horticulturist, with long experience of the walled kitchen garden and its working practices so unsurprisingly the talk will on the mysteries of the kitche …
April Meeting – Perennial Violas
Our talk on the 4th April is by Jack Willgoss, one half of the team behind Wildegoose Nursery. Jack Willgoss and Laura Crowe took on the Bouts Viola Collection from Mark and Stephanie Roberts in 2011. They are based in the walled garden at Millichope …
March Meeting – Mary Keen
We are delighted that Mary Keen will be joining us on the 7th March to talk about ‘loosening up in the garden’. Lady Keen, garden designer and writer, will explain, as we get older, how to stay in touch with the times; moving towards naturalism being m …
February meeting – A Review
On Monday 1st we welcomed Julian Sutton and we were not disappointed. He promised to speak on a modest range of immodestly interesting plants under the title Beneath the Trees; he did, provoking great interest. Indeed, it is unusual to receive as many …
February Meeting – Beneath the Trees
Our talk on the 1st February is by Julian Sutton, of Desirable Plants, whose subject is ‘Beneath the Trees: non-woody plants for the woodland garden’. Julian’s intention is to talk of a modest range of immodestly interesting plants from a hard won col …
Programme for 2016
We are pleased to present the programme for 2016 which we hope members, and visitors, will find interesting and enjoyable. As ever meetings are held at Colwall Village Hall and start at 7:30, with complimentary refreshments available from 7:00. Annual …
December meeting – Japan in the Spring
On the 7th December our talk takes us away from Winter to Springtime in Japan. Duncan Coombs, lecturer at Pershore College, will be sharing tales from his travels and I am sure we can expect there to be one or two photos of cherry blossom. The talk s …