Well, on a bright but quite cold mid May morning we held our popular plant sale in the Lowdham Village Hall car park. This included a wide range of summer bedding plants, tomato, courgettes and marrow plants plus a selection of perennials for herbaceous borders. All together it was a successful morning with people from the village and further afield coming along to look and make purchases.

We thank all those who supported yet another venture of our horticultural society and of course a big thank you to members of the society who helped on the morning of the sale. Furthermore, and on this theme, an even bigger thank you goes to our ‘very own local nurseryman’ for all his efforts in growing the high quality summer bedding plants.

We hope that you now do your bit in the garden and have a lovely display of summer colour.

Well, the phrase ‘Spring has Sprung’ was certainly evident in Lowdham Village Hall last Sunday. With lots of exhibits plus displays of floral art and artwork being enjoyed by lots of visitors there was a lovely atmosphere in a ‘Springlike’ setting. We thank everyone who helped in any way at the show and of course everyone who came along. Look out for future events such as talks, coach trips, plant sales and of course the annual Summer Show on August Bank Holiday Monday.

Well, Spring has sprung, so let’s hope it’s in full bloom together with all the fragrances this coming Sunday in Lowdham Village Hall. Our annual show is open between 1.00pm and 4.00pm and only costs £1.50 to enter with no admission charge for children. There are displays of floral art and artwork by village groups. Perhaps you may like to ‘have a go’ and enter some flowers or shrubs in the show, in which case, this may be done between 9.30 and 11.30am on the day. There will be hot and cold drinks plus delicious home made cakes available. We welcome all visitors who come along and support the village event. See you there🌻🌺🌼💐

Well, here we are in December 2015, the bulbs and bulbous plants are coming through  and there’s so much colour in the gardens. What’s the date of the annual Spring Show?

Never mind all this, the above image is of the Lowdham Horticultural Society entry in the Lowdham Community Christmas Tree Festival of Journeys which was held on the 12th and 13th December 2015 in St Mary’s Church, Lowdham. The tree was decorated to depict the journey from seed. We hope those of you who visited the church enjoyed this and all the other beautifully decorated Christmas trees.

Finally, after a most enjoyable year of village shows, plant sales, evening talks, socials and wonderful visits may we wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and a Happy,Peaceful and Healthy New Year 2016.

We enjoyed an excellent and most informative talk by Michael Walker of the Nottinghamshire Bat Group which was supported by a selection of images. We were told about the numerous types, sizes and locations of bats, both in the British Isles and also some from around the world. The habitats of bats was explained, this leading us to the importance of habitats in the wild and the need for instance, for bats to have hedgerows to follow in flight. It was explained that we can play our part in helping these fascinating nocturnal animals by having gardens which support lots of insects for the bats to feed on. The group has been succesful in getting Heritage Lottery Funding for a 3 year project to ‘map’ bats in Nottinghamshire.

As a society, it was agreed that we could no doubt help in this cause by inviting our members to consider having a ‘bat detector’ in their gardens for a few days. Volunteers would be contacted, possibly from April or May next year to arrange for a detector to be placed in their garden. If you are interested in taking part in this project please contact us and we will then decide on the best way forward in conjunction with the Nottinghamshire Bat Group.

The speaker, on a number of occasions, referred to bats flying around Lowdham cricket field during the late summer evenings. Having played and been heavily involved in Lowdham cricket club over many years, it was only at the end of the talk that I realised I knew the speaker, he used to sell cricket ‘bats’!!