Tickets for our Early Spring Plant Fair on 23 March at Yeo Valley Organic Garden near Blagdon are now on sale. Use the button on the home page of our website www.somersethps.com as a link to the ticketing site. Please select tickets by your intended time of arrival, remembering to also book a car parking permit, and print them off. Once at the Fair you may stay as long as you wish. The Fair finishes at 3.00pm but the garden and cafe stay open until 4.00pm.

We have a wonderful selection of nurseries coming to sell their beautiful spring plants including Heartsease Plants from mid Wales, Triffids Nursery, Biocentric Plants, Elworthy Cottage Plants, Longacre Plants, CB Plants, Gardeners’ Delight, Floyds Climbers from Wiltshire, Phoenix Perennial Plants from Hampshire, Champion Plants, Leesa’s Not Just Alpines, Pennard Plants and finally Avon Bulbs making one of their last appearance at a plant fair before retirement. We also have the Gardeners’ Blacksmith coming along with their range of plant supports and garden metalwork.

Members can gain free entry to the Fair by volunteering to help on the Group’s plant stall or on the gate for a short period. We need people to help on the gate from 9.30am to 11.30am. We also need helpers on both the plant stall and the gate from 11.30am until 1.30pm and again from 1.30pm until 3.30pm. Please get in touch with me (Jane Hunt) to book your slot. Plant Fairs raise valuable funds to help the Group run the excellent programme of events on offer to members without the need for high membership fees so please volunteer your help if you can.

We also need lots of lovely plants to sell on the plant stall, so please start potting up a few now. You may bring these to the March meeting or, preferably, directly to the Fair.” 

Many thanks.

Jane