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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 …
6th May Meeting – Using A Small Greenhouse
Small but well used Are you using your greenhouse as much as you could or is unloved and empty for part of the year? Well Gareth Davies will be at our meeting on the 6th May to show us how we can use our greenhouses, however small, much more efficientl …
2013 Annual Show
This year’s annual show is on the 10th August 2013 and will be held at Colwall Village Hall from 2 – 5pm. It will be the 70th show and as such we have included some special categories in the show schedule. Why not have a go and enter something? There …
Review of April Meeting
Apart from arriving in daylight, the weather for our April meeting this year made us think it was still mid-winter. As ever it included the Michael Jefferson-Brown bulb competition for which, somewhat surprisingly, there were a large number of entries …
April Meeting – Bulb Competition and Vegetable Growing
Most importantly please note that due to Easter the date of the meeting is the 8th April This month our meeting is two-fold. Firstly, we will be holding the Michael Jefferson-Brown Spring Bulb Competition. There are two classes you can enter: Pot or co …
Review of March Meeting – Pruning, Made Simple
A large and enthusiastic audience attended our March meeting, including some new members and visitors who were particularly welcome. The well-stocked information table included leaflets giving details of NGS garden openings in Herefordshire and Worcest …
Dates for the Diary – March 2013
We thought members might like a reminder of local gardening events that were announced at the meeting on 4th March 7th and 14th March – Snowdrops and Winter Garden, Ragley Hall The gardens at Ragley Hall will be open between 10am and 3pm on the 7th an …