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:

Recent events have been:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 11th Cancelled due to bad weather

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

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

15th October 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 2009of . 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 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.