Category Archives: 2016

This will be a unique entry for the Club files as members of the Gardening Club tend to hide their lights under bushels and never get a mention in dispatches! Sorry about the mixed metaphors! So, having been elected Chair … Continue reading →

At our last meeting, the club was treated to an entertaining talk about growing vegetables for value from Rodney Tibbs. Rodney’s credentials are impeccable. He has been growing vegetables for 50 years and is a recognised author and journalist who … Continue reading →

Stephen Hall. Do check out his website stephenhalldesign.co.uk which shows stunning examples of his work. Stephen had been invited by the Gardening Club to give some advice and tips for how we could design our garden for wildlife. We were … Continue reading →

Every now and then we like to bring changes to our programme of mostly horticultural matters. Of course the clue was in the title of our latest talk “The Carnation and Pink in art and culture” yes, we really were … Continue reading →

The busy gardening season is now in full swing. Gardening Club members began the summer season in style with a coach trip to the RHS garden at Wisley. We were very lucky as the sun shone all day and no-one … Continue reading →

Gardening Club members enjoy not only garden-visiting but also looking at notable National Trust Houses so two were included on our 2016 tour. En-route we visited Baddesley Clinton, one of the finest moated houses in England, nestling in a lovely … Continue reading →

This year’s Gardening Club Summer Soiree was held at Elmfield Cottage, Thriplow, being hosted by Bernard and Brenda Meggitt. Around 50 members enjoyed a warm mostly sunny evening walking round their recently made-over new garden. The old mainly large square … Continue reading →

Sometimes you feel that you have no control over your life – that things just happen! So it was with the Gardening Club. When I e-mailed our planned speaker (booked a year ago) and reminded him how much we were … Continue reading →

Visitors attending the Club’s Annual Show in Fowlmere Village Hall on Saturday 17 September, were ‘wowed’ by the bright and colourful displays of lovely flowers and foliage. There were amazing and abundant fruits and vegetables, mouth-watering cakes and jams, and … Continue reading →

An interesting talk from a very experienced speaker and a thoroughly nice man – the Scotsdale guru, Peter Jackson, came to talk to us about trees for the small garden. Why small gardens? It is a fact of life that … Continue reading →