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Biddenham Garden Club
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Onecote Bloomers Gardening Group
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Mickleton Garden Club
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Nottingham Hardy Plant Society
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Evenley Gardening Society
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Harpenden Gardening Society
Talks, demos and workshops
NEW Do your roots need doing? Good root growth is essential for healthy and productive plants. How can you be sure your plants are performing well under ground when you can't even see them
NEW Gardening in the 2020s Adapting to a changing climate and the movement away from use of pesticides, fungicides and weedkillers
Lamport Hall and its gardens Lamport is famous as the home of garden gnomes – but how did they get there?
Plants for free (demonstration/workshop) * Propagating plants – how to collect and prepare seed and take cuttings, plus – cutting up bulbs! Autumn only
Topical tips for the season Content depends on time of year – plants to enjoy, gardens to visit, pruning (or not!), likely pests and diseases, etc.
Plants for shade Gardeners often wonder what to plant in a shady spot – in fact, the possibilities are endless!
Hellebores The botany of these star performers and how to choose, grow and propagate them
Container gardening (demonstration)*
Unkindest cut? (pruning demonstration)*
The garden at York Gate, Leeds Created by the Spencer family, this beautiful garden is now maintained by Perennial, the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society
Apples Britain's favourite fruit. The history of apples, apples in commerce, and why we should be growing them in gardens
Shakespeare's plants and gardens Plants and gardens had a particular importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Looking at the restoration project at Kenilworth Castle in particular, we explore what plants meant to the Elizabethans
Gardens of the USA A look at the history of gardening in the US, including some contemporary gardens designed by Martha Schwartz and Isabelle Greene, with a flying visit to Hollywood
Pin me to the wall – and do what you want with me How to choose and manage climbers and wall shrubs
'Come into the garden, Maud' The gardens of Victorian England
Roses Their place in history – and which are the best varieties for the garden today
Permaculture for gardeners
March of the women Who are the notable women gardeners of the past - and today? Includes some American gardeners
Right plant, right place What to grow where, in other words...
Conifers Their botany and history, how to choose, plant and care for them, and their place in garden design
Plants as pets Choosing and caring for houseplants
Trees! We should all be planting more trees. How do you decide which is/are best for you?
*Not suitable for Zoom
CALENDAR
2023
January 9
Adel Gardeners' Club
Hellebores
January 10
Ockbrook and Borrowash Gardeners' Club
Plants for Shade
January 17
Oakely Gardening Club
Roses
January 18
Mickleton Gardening Club
Roses
January 19
Bledlow Ridge Horticultural Society
Hellebores
February 6
Harwell Gardening Club
Permaculture
February 8
Appleton & Eaton Gardening Club
Shakespeare's Plants & Gardens
February 14
Long Buckbv Gardening Club
Plants as Pets
February 16
Welford Gardening Club
TBC
February 18
Somersham Garden Club
Right Plant, Right Place
February 27
Sulgrave Gardening Club
"Pin Me to the Wall..."
March 7
Tanworth-in-Arden Gardening Club
Hellebores
March 13
Denton and District Gardening Club
'Do Your Roots Need Doing"
March 22
Kennington Horticultural Society
Plants for Shade
March 23
Hagbourne Garden Club
"Pin Me to the Wall..."
March 28
Textile History Group
March of the Women
April 6
Hose Garden Club
Container Gardening
April 10
Nettleton Garden Club
Gardening in the 2020s
April 13
Prestwood Gardening Club
Right Plant, Right Place
April 17
Burton Dassett Gardening Club
Roses
April 20
Clifton Gardening Club
Hellebores
April 27
Kinver Horticultural Society
Roses
May 4 (morning)
Perennial Gardening Club
The Gardens of Lamport Hall
May 8
Mawsley Gardening for All
Come in the Garden, Maud
May 9
Winslow & District Gardening Society
Plants for Shade
May 16
Biddenham Gardeners' Association
Trees
June 8
Blunsdon Village Garden Club
Right Plant, Right Place
June 13
Wing Garden Club
TBC
June 15
Bollington & District Horticultural Society
"Do Your Roots Need Doing?"
July 20
Odell Gardening Club
Pruning
September 4 (afternoon)
Barwell Garden Club
Right Plant, Right Place
September 5
Kingston Bagpuize and Southmoor Gardening Club
Permaculture
September 12
Marlow & District Horticultural Society
Shakespeare's Plants & Gardens
September 27
Cookham Dean Horticultural Society
Do Your Roots Need Doing?
October 3
Great Haseley Gardening Club
Plants for Free!
October 4
Barrow upon Soar Gardening Club
Plants for Free!
October 10
Harpenden Gardening Society
Topical Tips
October 17
Abingdon Horticultural Society
Gardening in the 2020s
October 19
Wolstron Garden Club
Apples
November 1
Stathern Gardening Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'/TBC
November 7
Kimble & Ellesborough Horticultural Society
Roses
November 8
Wolverhamton Horticultural Society (with Tendershoots Garden Network)
'Do Your Roots Need Doing?'
November 16
Bledlow Ridge Horticultural Society
Gardens of the USA
November 28
North Leigh Gardening Society
Gardening in the 2020s
December 11
Heyford Garden Club
TBC
2024
January 27
Lincolnshire Hardy Plant Sociey
TBC
February 7
Watlington Gardening Club
Hellebores
March 12
Wharfedale Gardeners' Group
TBC
April 4
Hose Garden Club
Apples
May 29
Southport Chyrsanthemum and Gardening Society
Pruning/TBC
October 9
Stoke Goldington Gardeners' Club
Right Plant, Right Place
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