EVENING VISITS

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Clumber Walled Kitchen Garden

On the evening of Thursday 25th June we are visiting Clumber Walled Kitchen Garden as a follow up to the excellent talk that the Head Gardener, Chris Margrave, gave us in February.   We will be treated to a guided tour of the garden, by Chris.  We are meeting at 6.45pm at Lowdham Village Hall to share transport or 7.20pm at the car park situated at the side of the Walled Garden.

All are welcome and the cost of the guided tour is £5 to LHS members and £9.50 to non members.  As this is an evening tour, these costs apply to National Trust members too.

Hebbs Farmhouse, Stoke Bardolph

Following this, on the evening of Thursday 16th July we are visiting the home of Stuart Dixon, the speaker who gave an excellent talk ‘Best Borders’ earlier this June.  We are going on this visit instead of having our programmed Summer Social, which was to have been the previous Thursday.  Tea/coffee and fresh cream scones will be provided.  We are meeting at 7pm at Village Hall to share transport or 7.30pm at Stoke Bardolph Village Hall, where we have been asked to park.

Again all are welcome and the cost of the visit is free to LHS members and £4 to non members.

We are hoping for lovely weather for both of these visits.

 

Coach Trip to Biddulph Grange, Staffordshire – Sunday 7th June 2015

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Wow, what a most enjoyable visit we had to this National Trust garden, which has 400 steps throughout the garden. (Don’t we know it!) It is a Victorian horticultural masterpiece full of intrigue and surprise. The vast range of trees, shrubs and flowers is simply amazing. Fortunately, the weather was gorgeous, which enabled us to see the colours of the rhododendrons and azaleas contrasting with the lake and backdrop of trees. The visit took us on a journey from an Italian terrace, to an Egyptian pyramid, via an Himalayan glen and an amazing Chinese inspired garden. We were able to take our refreshments outside and by mid afternoon the cream scones, cakes and cups of tea were the order of the day.

We hope that everyone on the coach had an enjoyable day. Unfortunately our departure was delayed slightly, due to a road traffic accident at the entrance to the gardens. I hope that you will join me in wishing the motorcyclist who was injured and then transferred very carefully into an ambulance a full recovery.

Once again, thank you to our organiser and committee for another memorable visit.

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Best Borders – talk by Stuart Dixon – Fri 5th June 2015

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We enjoyed an excellent, informative and at times humorous talk by our local horticultural lecturer, writer and broadcaster (incl BBC Radio Nottingham) last Friday. Stuart’s talk was supported by images of many borders which he has seen around the country, including a number of National Trust gardens. He used these to advise on the content and structure of borders, plus when to plant and prune many of our favourite herbaceous perennial border plants.

For our summer social, which is to include some refreshments, on the evening of Thursday 16th July 2015, we are scheduled to visit Stuart’s garden, which will no doubt provide us with even more inspiration for our own gardens.

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JUNE TALK

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Our next talk is at 7.30pm on Friday 5th June at the WI Hall, Lowdham.  We will be visited by Stuart Dixon local horticultural lecturer, writer and broadcaster.  We will be treated to one of his talks entitled ‘Best Borders’.  He will share with us his knowledge and tips about the use of perennials in herbaceous borders.

All are welcome and there is a small charge of £2 to non-members.

Plant Sale – Saturday 16th May 2015

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Our increasingly popular plant sale was held in the Lowdham village hall car park last Saturday. Fortunately it was a bright sunny morning, although there was a cool breeze. We had a large selection of summer bedding plants, perennials, some vegetables and herbs plus a selection of fruit bushes for sale at very attractive prices.

The sale was well attended and we thank everyone who supported the event.

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