Long Compton & District Garden Club
Dear Friend,
How wonderful to see so many of you at the meeting last Wednesday. It was good to see so many familiar faces and some new ones too!
As you will know, if you picked up our speaker schedule at the AGM, our next meeting will be on Wednesday 27th March. Our speaker for the evening will be Timothy Walker. Timothy read Botany at Oxford and following graduation has continued to both study and work in his chosen field. Having trained at Askham Bryan, Windsor and Kew Timothy went on to become Director at Oxford Botanic Garden, he is now College Lecturer in Plant Sciences (botany) at Somerville College Oxford. We are incredibly lucky to have Timothy joining us and I thought a little advance reminder was a good idea for what promises to be a very interesting and informative talk on 'The Healing Power of Plants'.
On an entirely different note we now have a Facebook page! You should be able to find us by searching for Long Compton & District Garden Club or by following this link; https://www.facebook.com/groups/lcdgardenclub We aim to keep the club's page updated with all the information relevant to meetings and trips. Don't worry if you're not a Facebook user we will still be sending updates via email too.
I'm sure that many of you are signed up for the newsletter from Whichford Pottery but for those that aren't I have included this link https://www.whichfordpottery.com/visit/events It looks like they have some excellent events on throughout the summer so might be worth a look.
Fingers crossed for some good gardening weather over the next few weeks and hopefully see you on the 27th!
Best wishes,
Julie Reardon
Local Garden Clubs
CHIPPING NORTON Horticultural Club
Signs of Spring and Summer at last!
Our last talk of the Autumn/Winter programme is on Wednesday evening(17th April) at 7.30pm in the Methodist Hall below the church. Alan will be available at the church entrance to aid anyone wishing to use the lift down to the hall.
Our speaker this month is Dr David Edwards who will be talking about "the National Garden Scheme... more than tea and cakes. How can a garden make money for medical charities?"
Following on from his talk David Edwards is opening his garden for a group visit by the club on Wednesday 19th June from 2.30pm with tea and cake. Cost £10 per person.
Places need to be booked and paid for by 30th April. Sign up and payment to Elaine Parsons at the April meeting.
Own transport needed. We will try to find lifts if required. Any queries to Elaine by Email: snips59@icloud.com Mobile: 07833 522592.
This being my final reminder email before the summer break, please note the date of our Annual Plant Sale on
Saturday 11th May 9.30am - 12 noon outside the Methodist Church. Donations of plants to sell from 9am.
Cash only payments. Volunteers to help run the stall for 30 mins or 1 hr during the morning please see Elaine who will have a sign-up sheet.
See you on Wednesday evening.
Emma
Sibford Horticultural Club
Dear Friends
There is another Horti outing planned for Wednesday 10 July to visit 2 charming private gardens owned by Jane Lloyd and Mark Gabbitas, in Oddington. Both very different, and with proceeds going to charity, these should definitely be in your diary, especially if you missed the 2 Hardwick gardens we visited in June.
We leave the Sibford village hall car park at 3.30pm on a car share basis to arrive at Oddington at @ 4.00pm. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshment will be provided at the second garden to which we will continue at 5.30.
£15.00 per member, £20.00 per non member, all welcome, please contact Paul Harffey to pre-pay on paul_harffey@yahoo.co.uk
ALSO
Sue Tompkins tells me that she has an over abundance of really good purple sprouting broccoli which needs to be planted out now. Anyone interested in some, please contact Sue direct on tompkinssue@icloud.com
Look forward to seeing you in Oddington.
Best wishes,
Diana Thompson