Please could you mention the North Curry Open Garden weekend on 18th and 19th June? It includes 13 gardens for £6 within the centre of the village. There is free parking in the Manor Field, teas in the church and tickets and programme from the PO, the parking field or the individual gardens. Thank you!
Liz Gibbs
In response to demand from members, we have arranged a special summer lecture, given via Zoom, during our usual meeting “closed season”. The lecture is being given by Troy Scott Smith, head gardener at Sissinghurst on WEDNESDAY 6 JULY at 7.30pm. The topic is “The Delos Project” which is a recreation of a Greek-style garden that Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicholson tried to establish at Sissinghurst.
Zoom meeting joining instructions for members will be sent out nearer the date.
If you are not a member and would like to attend the lecture, the charge will be £5. Please email via the contact page here on the Group’s website www.somersethps.com and someone will be in touch with information about how you can pay.
We’re opening our garden for the NGS on the 11th and 12th of June. I know the Sunday opening clashes with the group’s plant sale, but hope you might be able to give us a mention to members?
Plenty of hardy plants to see!!
https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/43089
Many thanks
Trish
Due to catching Covid there may be available 2 tickets to Chelsea for this Friday 27th May. The tickets are in West Somerset (near Dulverton) and are non-Member whole-day (8am – 8pm) tickets at £85 each.
It all depends on 2 negative Covid tests! Anyone interested please call Rosie 01398 341855 / 07506 673 242 or email rosemarytree@hotmail.co.uk.
Regards, Rosie Treherne
We would like to invite members of your gardening community to our annual village open gardens event. There will be about 25 gardens open from 2-6pm on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th June. We have been holding these events since 1974 and we give the profit to a cause inside the village and another outside.
In most gardens the gardeners are on hand to chat to and most welcome well behaved dogs on leads.
Please circulate this invitation and the attached poster which we would be grateful if you could find somewhere to display.
Many thanks.
Bob
Our Summer Plant Fair at Lower Severalls is now just a couple of weeks away. Keep the date – SUNDAY 12th JUNE – free! The Fair will run from 10.00am until 3.00pm and you can pay on the gate – no need to pre-book your tickets for this one. There will also be a range of delicious light refreshments available and a chance to see the garden at an earlier time of year.
We have the following excellent nurseries and stalls coming along from various parts of the south-west (plus one coming from mid-Wales!), and of course the HPS Somerset Group plant stall, to bring you the best of their summer plant offerings:
We do need a couple more members to volunteer to help on the gate for an hour or two, so if you are free please let me know.
Many thanks
Jane
Hello,
I have 2 tickets (one RHS member and one non member) for The Malvern Spring Show on Friday 6th May but I can no longer attend. I will send them via email free to anyone who can use them.
Regards, Lynda Whish (lyndawhish@icloud.com)
Coming up on Saturday is the Somerset HPS plant sale at Monkton Heathfield village hall. Come along to grab choice plants from nurseries and private sellers.
Razvan is a UK-based garden designer, writer and lecturer. He grew up in Transylvania in a town surrounded by vast woodlands and species-rich wildlife meadows, a fact that has influenced the way he designs and maintains gardens. He will take us all on a journey into the amazing diversity of foliage, the wide variety of shapes, sizes, colours and textures, and then give examples of how foliage plants can be used to great effect in our gardens. At the end of his talk, Razvan will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
The cost will be £3 per person for HPS members and £5 per person for non-members. To book and/or to be added to our monthly distribution list for updates on our programme, please send an email asap to monmouthshirehps@gmail.com
The booking form for trips in 2022 is now on the programme page here. Additionally the January newsletter is also available to download on the Newsletters page here.
Bill.
The Hardy Plant Society Somerset Group 