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.
July’s Visit
On another of the hottest days 30 members visited The Blooming Wild Nursery at Horsington, run by Lindsay and Stephen Lister. They specialise in Wildflower plants, perennials which encourage pollinators, along with ornamental grasses. The recent run of heatwaves has caused problems for the ordinary gardener but for those for whom it is their livelihood it must be a nightmare! And yet Lindsay and Stephen had just returned from the RHS Summer show at Badminton with a Gold award for their small ‘pocket’ garden. Several of us had gone, determined not to buy with the ground so dry or rock hard, but came away with a rare or unusual plant to be nursed. Or more sensibly decided to return in the Autumn. Our next event in August is the Summer Social for members only and is by kind invitation of Nick and Jenny Needham. Details will be sent by email. Should you be a member but have yet to receive the particulars, please let me know. And if yet to renew or thinking of joining it’s not too late as we are only halfway through the year’s programme! HELP! BUCKLAND NEWTON FETE PLANT STALL on August Bank Holiday Monday 31st Aug. …whether a member or not, we welcome your surplus produce and good quality plants, to be dropped off on the morning from 9.30am. September meeting Wednesday 9th September at Buckland Newton Village Hall, doors open from 7pm for 7.30pm. ‘Using Plants from the Garden or Hedgerow for Medicine’ by Kim Cresswell of Goldberry Herbs. Non-members welcome. Save the Date! Wednesday 14th October CELEBRITY TALK by BBC GARDENERS WORLD Presenter NICK BAILEY ‘Confessions of a TV Gardener!’ This will be an all-ticketed event, more details next month and tickets on sale from September. PS We are still without a secretary…if you feel you could help by taking the minutes at the odd committee meeting and help with some of the correspondence needed, please let me know. We only meet as a committee two or at the most three times a year. Jan Burnett Tel 348627 or on greystonejan@gmail.com
