Our new season of talks will be upon us soon, time flies! The full season of talks has now been updated and includes two special events: we have a celebrity talk in October with Bunny Guinness and a study day
Change to March meeting
Our publicised speaker for the March meeting, Steve Hickman, is no longer able to attend. Fortunately, the show goes on! Steve’s son, Colin, also an expert on the range of plants in the talk “Nerines, Amarines and Tulbaghias” will be attending
October 2017 meeting restrictions
The very popular speaker Bob Brown is coming to give his talk “Daisy Daze” at our October meeting. As our membership level has increased in the last year and we know Bob’s talk will be of interest to many of
Happy New Year!
Well, not quite – but happy new programme year! Monday 25th September is the start of our new 2017/18 programme, seeing us through autumn, winter and into late spring. We have another great programme thanks to our Chairman and speaker secretary Heather
Summer’s not over yet!
The new 2017/18 programme is being added to the website but summer’s not over yet! We still have two more garden visits to look forward to, see our programme here for dates and general locations. For the privacy of garden
The Gardens at Wynyard (Roses but not as we know them) with Alistair Baldwin
Event date: 26th Septemer 2016 Write up by Heather Russell Alistair Baldwin started our new season of talks with an excellent presentation on his design for the new Wynyard Hall rose garden. He is an interesting mix of a garden
Award winning garden
Congratulations to our newsletter editor Marie Robson for not only winning the Best Garden category in the Stanley ‘Blooming Good Fun’ awards but also being crowned Overall Winner! We are all very pleased that Marie has been recognised for all the hard work and dedication to
Programme updated
Our full programme for September 2016 to May 2017 is now available. As usual, we have a diverse and interesting range of talks (including some speakers bringing plants) so look forward to seeing you all at the meetings. The small programme
Breaking new ground
We are delighted to join the other 20 or so local HPS groups who have created their own websites. While it’s big news for us more than half of all HPS groups already have their own sites which are a quick and easy way to communicate