Category: Programme
December meeting – A Plant Lover’s View of Fiji and Samoa
View above the Falealupo Rainforest canopy walkway The Society’s December meeting is on the 2nd December. The meeting will commence at 7pm with the Society’s AGM, please arrive early so that the AGM can start promptly. The AGM will be followed by a tal …
November Meeting – Heuchera Galore
Our November meeting on the 4th November is by Vicky Fox of Plantagogo. Vicky will be talking about her passion for heucheras which has led to her and her husband, Richard, running a nursery and winning many RHS medals. They hold the National Plant C …
Percy Picton Memorial Lecture 2013
STAR PLANTS FOR SMALL GARDENS – 7TH OCTOBER We are pleased that the Percy Picton Memorial Lecture this year will be delivered by Matthew Wilson. Matthew is Managing Director of Clifton Nurseries, London’s oldest garden centre and previously work …
September meeting – A Rock Gardener’s Eye
Our meeting on the 2nd September (commencing at 7:30pm) will be very appealing to those interested in alpines. Malcolm McGregor, a freelance writer, enthusiastic lecturer on alpine plants and gardening and the editor of the North American Rock …
Annual Show 2013 – Results
Last weekend’s show saw 55 entrants entering a range of 83 classes including the usual vegetable and floral classes, a range of produce categories, photography and handicraft and finally especially for the 70th Anniversary show a special class for a po …
August meeting – The Refurbishmet of Compton Acres
Photo courtesy of Compton Acres website On the 5th August our speaker will be Mary Payne, a Chelsea gold medal winner. Mary’s subject will be the refurbishment of Compton Acres and her involvement with the project. Compton Acre is near Bournemouth and …
July Meeting – Scent in the Garden
Want to add an extra dimension to your garden? Enhance another sense? Then the meeting on the 1st July at the Wyche and Colwall Horticultural Society is for you. The guest speaker will be Stephen Lacey. Stephen is a garden writer, lecturer, broadcast …
3rd June Meeting – Water Gardens and Plants
The mysteries of water gardening will be explained to us by Hazel Kaye at our meeting on the 3rd June. Hazel is a nursery woman, plants woman, trained to teach rural studies and is an experienced speaker. She is also a skilled photographer. We will al …
Review of May Meeting
Streptocarpus Grace Our May meeting was held on the most perfect Spring evening with over a hundred members present. Thanks were passed on from Coddington where we had donated £100 towards the planting of Jubilee memorial trees on Oyster Hill. We had a …