Gardening Club

Usually meets on the second Monday in the month at 7.45 pm. Details of venue to be advertised in the newsletter (which is viewable on the website)

Organised by Brenda White (01920) 438575 and Phyllis Chaplin (01920) 438635. Contact either of these ladies if you would like to join, or just turn up

New members and visitors welcome. Visitors - £3 each visit for a maximum of 3 visits.

If you have spare plants which you want to sell, please bring them along or bring details of them to the meeting.

We are also investigating buying seeds, seed potatoes, compost etc at a discount. If you would like to take advantage of this, please spend an enjoyable evening leafing through your catalogues so that you can bring your seed requirements to the next meeting.

See the details below for future meetings of the Gardening Club:

Please watch this space for details of future meetings.

Previous events have been:

8th August 2011 A visit to The Gibberd Garden, Old Harlow

11th July 2011 Mrs Abel Smith kindly invited us to visit the gardens at Woodhall Park

13th June 2011 a walk around the hedgerows of Dane En

9th May 2011 Rivers Nursery Orchard came and gave us a talk on the Orchard, the rare apples they are growing and its history.

11th April 2011Edwina Robarts  talked about The National Gardens Scheme

14th March 2011"SOME LIKE IT HOT" plants for dry areas by Anne Godfrey of Daisy Roots

14th February 2011 Making the most of Perennials - Neil Holmes -Smith

10^th January 2011 Planning meeting

13^th December 2010 Christmas Social Evening

8^th November 2010 Lost Gardens of Hertfordshire - Anne Rowe - Hertfordshire Gardens Trust

11^th October 2010 Hedgerow Herbs for Food and Medicine - Mary Barton - Hertfordshire Herb Group

13^th September 2010Garden Quiz!

9^th August 2010 Allotment visit & Social evening - The allotmenteers Horses' Meadow

12^th July 2010 Brenda and Jeremy's garden at Whitehill

21th June 2010 Garden Visit - Mrs. Wentworth-Stanley, Great Munden 

10^th May 2010    Carrie Braid of Little Chickens, Hare Street - Chickens in your Garden

April 12th 2010  Major Shepherd from Watton Garden Centre - Planning & Planting Borders

8th March 2010 Gerald Greenaway from Priorswood Clematis, Widford Hill
Everything you need to know to grow clematis successfully

8th February 2010 Tom Cole Head of Horticulture at Capel Manor
Vegetables, propagation and pruning of fruit trees and bushes

January 11th 2010 Cancelled due to bad weather

14^th December 2009 Social evening (and making wreaths etc)

9th November 2009  Rob Gabriel, local beekeeper - Bees in your garden 

15th October 2009 Quiz night! 

14th September 2009  Due to a bereavement our speaker was unable to attend so instead we discussed recent successes and failures in our gardens.

10th August 2009 A walk around the garden of Marcella Ashmore at Sacombe Green

13th July 2009 A visit to the gardens of Great Munden House by kind invitation of Mrs. Wentworth-Stanley. Tea and biscuits were served.

15th June 2009 A visit to the gardens of The White House, Dane End by kind invitation of Mrs. Sally Pool.

11^th May  2009 A speaker from Top Pots talked about "Hanging baskets" accompanied by a sale of relevant plants.

6th April 2009 Andrew Stewart, Senior Horticulturist at a major garden centre talked about shrubs for the small garden and brought samples for us to take cuttings, if we wished.

7th March 2009
Major Shepherd from Watton Garden Centre talked about what the centre does and where and when.

6th February 2009
Anne Godfrey from Daisy Roots talked about "Good in bed" - perennials for summer long colour in your borders.

12th January 2009
The club met in the village hall to discuss ideas for the forthcoming year.

8th December 2008
In the Memorial Hall Tony Sugden  led us in making Christmas Wreaths, Swags and Hanging Baskets.
NB We also had Christmas time nibbles and a glass of wine!

10th November 2008
Avid gardener Sally Pool, resident of 'The White House', Dane End, talked about her garden and various favourite interesting plants.

13^th October 2008  
Garden Designer, Carolyn Marlow, talked about her work. (See more details under local businesses.)

8th September 2008
The Gardening Club met on Monday 8th September at Hopley's Garden Centre Much Hadam to look round (maybe buy plants) and have a Glass of wine. £1.50 for members and £2.50 for non-members. 

Prior to this there were visits to members' gardens and also instruction on the making of Hanging Baskets.