Lydden Vale
Gardening Club
You don't need to have a large garden
to be interested in plants and like
growing them. Window sills, pots and
containers and house plants can
provide year round scope for the
enthusiast. So why don't you come
along and meet us?
Anyone interested in joining, please contact: Antony Parson Lydden Vale Gardening Club on Facebook
Buckland Newton Community Website
in the heart of rural Dorset
The Lydden Vale Gardening Club meets on the second
Wednesday of each month between September and April in the
Buckland Newton Village Hall enjoying a mixture of talks from
guest speakers, practical sessions where you can learn top tips for
all things gardening. During the summer months we visit award
winning gardens, garden centres and enjoy Alfresco Social
evenings.
We welcome all ages and levels of experience and are keen for all
generations to benefit from the enjoyment of gardening. If you live
in Buckland Newton, Pulham, Glanvilles Wootton, Kings Stag,
Alton Pancras or neighbouring parishes and if you’re interested in
having a fine garden or rewilding, planting or harvesting the results
of your labours, or simply visiting gardens and learning about the
history of gardening, we would love you to have you with us.
If you are not already a member of the Club and are interested in
gardening and think you might like to join, we would love to hear
from you. Please do get in touch by emailing Jan at
greystonebn@yahoo.co.uk or Antony at
Bladeley365@outlook.com
Jan Burnett and Susie Goymour
If you are interested in gardening, enjoy good talks, seeing other
gardens as well as your own, or experience problems with your
own garden that you would like to share and would welcome
advice on, the Gardening Club could be for you. Feel free to
contact Antony at Bladeley365@outlook.com or talk to Jan on
01300 348627.
August Meeting Report
On a warm summer evening in mid-August, members met for the
annual Club’s Social Evening in the Garden of Wyndham House,
Henley, by kind invitation of Jenny & Nick Needham.
It is the custom for everyone to bring a contribution towards a
shared supper, proving that gardeners are also good cooks. If you
are looking for a novel way to serve courgettes, one of the few veg
to survive and thrive in the heat of this summer helped by a daily
watering, then Nikki’s courgette salad with the addition of chopped
apricots or the Aussie courgette pastry-less flan with the addition of
lardons and cheese are just the recipes to ring the changes!
And Jenny’s Jubilee Chicken, forget the coronation version, was
soon polished off.
The garden was looking stunning…so much colour and the plant
that had everyone coveting was the pink evening primrose, aka
Oenothera speciosa “Pink ladies”. See photo opposite.
By the time you read this most probably the Fete will be over, as
usual the Club will be manning the Plant & Produce Stall.
BUT…no doubt with the long hot and dry summer there won’t be
the quantity of plants or even produce, but who knows…??
September Meeting
September sees the beginning of the Autumn programme.
Wednesday 9th September - back in Buckland Newton Village
Hall. 7.00 for 7.30pm with refreshments on arrival.
An Illustrated Talk by Kim Creswell of Goldberry Herbs -
“Using Plants from Garden and Hedgerow for medicine”.
Non-members welcome at £3pp. Tickets on sale for October’s
Celebrity Talk with Nick Bailey, details below.
And for members, Castle Garden’s BULB DISCOUNT vouchers of
25% off will be available. And be advised…don’t delay too long in
using them as both garden centres will soon be in Christmas
mode.
SAVE THE DATE!! Wednesday 14th October.
Celebrity Speaker NICK BAILEY of GARDENER’S WORLD
fame, “Confessions of a TV Gardener”
BN Village Hall… Doors Open 6.45 for 7.30pm.
This is a ticketed event. Members £5 - visitors £10.
Tickets available from The Old Chapel Stores
or email greystonejan@gmail.com or by phone 01300 348627
Jan Burnett
