White Horse Gardening Club 2023 Programme - next on May 20th

Meetings are usually in the Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RA.

Meetings held on the 1st Thursday of the month at 7.30pm, unless otherwise stated.

Membership £15 per annum. Visitors £3.00 per meeting.

Contact Pamela P to find out more:-

• www.uffington.net/clubs-asso-cns/garden-club (click)
• or email: [email protected]

2023 WHITE HORSE GARDENING CLUB PROGRAMME

• SATURDAY MAY 20^TH – Uffington Plant Sale Trail

10am – 2pm

• JUNE 1^st

VISIT - Littleworth village gardens at 6pm

Social evening including wine & nibbles. Free to members. Visitors £3.00

• WEDNESDAY JUNE 7^TH

VISIT Morning: Suggestion - Stonor Park, Henley on Thames RG9 6HF

(By own arrangement – free to NT and HH members)

Afternoon: Kidmore House, Garden and Vineyard, Chalkhouse Green Road, Kidmore End, Reading RG4 9AR.

2.30pm includes tour and refreshments. £12 per person. Min – 8 Max - 25

www.kidmorevineyard.com.

• SUNDAY JUNE 11th

UFFINGTON GARDENS OPEN. £5 per person. Refreshments. Raffle.

UFFINGTON FUN DAY including DOG SHOW & CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES

In aid of St Mary’s Church and the White Horse Gardening Club.

• FRIDAY JULY 7^th

VISIT – Morning: Old Court Nurseries LLP & The Picton Garden

Michaelmas Daisies Specialists since 1906

Old Court Nurseries, Walwyn Road, Colwall WR13 6QE

10am for 10.30am. £7 per person. Entrance, tour and refreshments.

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VISIT - Afternoon: 2pm. Little Malvern Court. Little Malvern WR14 4JN.

£12 per head to include house and garden. Refreshments available at café.

In a magnificent setting in the Malvern Hills, overlooking the Severn Valley, Little Malvern Court is a 15th century former Prior’s hall and a courtyard of adjoining monastic buildings – the garden has terraces that were laid out in the 1980s, devised by Arabella Lennox Boyd and Michael Balston.

www.littlemalverncourt.co.uk
 

• AUGUST – FREE
• SEPTEMBER 7^TH

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND TALK – KEW GARDENS

By Matthew Biggs. Gardener, writer and broadcaster, BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. Television researcher, presenter and director, written or contributed to over ten books on subjects ranging from houseplants to unusual vegetables and on historic subjects including 'Secrets of Great Botanists'. www.matthewbiggs.com

Visitors £5.00

• SATURDAY 9^TH SEPTEMBER

VISIT TO WISLEY FLOWER SHOW BY COACH? TBA

OCTOBER 5^TH

TALK – A Spoonful of Herbs (Part 1) From sowing and growing to harvesting and preserving

By Lynda Warren, Education Consultant, Author and Researcher.

www.lyndawarren.co.uk
 

• NOVEMBER 2^ND

TALK – Gardening with Ornamental Grasses

By Katherine Crouch, Garden Designer, Chelsea Gold Medal winner

(“Gardens are in my blood…and under my fingernails”)

www.katherinecrouch.com
 

• NOVEMBER 30^TH

CHRISTMAS MEETING AND TALK - GREAT DIXTER By Fergus Garrett www.greatdixter.co.uk

Visitors £5.00

NB: No December Meeting.

Further information: Pamela - [email protected]