The new winter season of meetings starts this weekend, with a 50/50 plant sale and a talk by Katherine Crouch.
50/50 Plant Sale at 10am
The 50/50 Plant Sale is a popular event every September. The Group keeps half the money taken and returns the other half to the seller. The hall will be open from 9.30am – 10.00am to receive your plants.
Please ensure that each plant has two identical labels, both of them bearing the name of the plant, your name and the price. One will be removed so that the amount you are owed can be totted up and given to you at the end of the meeting, when you can also reclaim any unsold plants and your labels (tip: write in pencil on the labels so that they may be reused).
Selling will take place between 10.00am and 11.00am, at which point the lecture begins. Offers of help with selling on the day would be most welcome.
Katherine Crouch, Garden Designer – ‘New Tricks for Old Gardeners’ at 11am
Katherine Crouch is a garden designer and former BBC Gardener of the Year. She says that after 40 years of gardening, she is now becoming arthritic and lazy (ring any bells?). In this talk she will introduce shortcuts which ensure gardeners don’t have to stop gardening just because they can’t reach the ground any more, including gardens and plants suitable for low maintenance, plus a demonstration of tools and techniques.
One audience member at another local garden club said to Katherine “I have rarely seen the club so amused, engaged and lively. Your particular brand of humour (Victoria Wood combined with Sandi Toksvig) was most entertaining, but does not obscure your superb knowledge of plants and gardening.”
At every meeting we have the Plant of the Month competition. For 2023 we encourage everyone bring along an offering to expand the competition. Your mission is to bring either a cut flower and / or a pot plant, or both. The competition is usually judged by the Speaker and points awarded towards an annual award at the AGM.
Let’s give Roy and Caroline some competition this year – find your best plants and bring them along on Saturday.
See you on Saturday,
Bill
The Hardy Plant Society Somerset Group 