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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
Talks, demos and workshops
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 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
NEW Roses Their place in history – and which are the best varieties for the garden today
NEW Permaculture for gardeners
NEW March of the women Who are the notable women gardeners of the past - and today?
NEW Right plant, right place What to grow where, in other words...
CALENDAR
2018
January 8
Denton and District Gardening Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
January 25
Hanborough Garden Club
Plants for Free!
February 12
Mawsley Gardening For All
Plants for Shade
February 22
Spratton Garden Club
The Garden at York Gate, Adel
March 5
Hardy Plant Society/Middlesex branch
Topical Tips
March 14
Milton Keynes U3A
The March of the Women
March 21
Letcombes and District Horticultural Society
Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens
April 4
Maidford Garden Group
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
April 6
Market Bosworth Gardening Club
The Gardens of Lamport Hall
April 9
Woodford Halso Gardening Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
April 10
Wheatley Village Produce Association
Plants for Shade
April 13
Box Garden Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
April 14
Preston Bissett Nurseries
Plants for Shade
April 19
Dumbleton Garden Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
April 26
Kinver & District Horticultural Society
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
May 1
Burbage Gardening Club
Love That Slug!
May 9
Women's Horticultural Society, Coventry
Topical Tips
May 10
Dorridge & District Gardening Club
Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens
May 12
Preston Bissett Nurseries
"Pin Me to the Wall..."
May 14
Offchurch Garden Club
"Pin Me to the Wall..."
May 15
Rugby Gardeners Guild
Permaculture for Gardeners
June 6
Roade Gardening Club
Plants for Shade
June 11
Colsterworth Garden Club
Container Gardening
July 2
Wyche & Colwall Horticultural Society
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
July 17
Houghton and Wyton Gardening Club
Topical Tips
August 8
Kempston Gardens Association
Roses
September 6
Hose Garden Club
"Pin Me to the Wall..."
September 11
Chieveley Gardening Club
Roses
September 12
Buckingham Garden Centre
Roses
September 18
Onecote Bloomers Gardening Group
Roses
September 20
Kirtlington Garden Club
Container Gardening
September 27
Hagbourne Garden Club
Plants for Free!
October 1
Harwell Gardeners' Club
Roses
October 9
Shelswell Garden Club
Topical Tips
October 10
Stoke Goldington Gardeners' Club
Topical Tips
October 12
Hardy Plant Society/Nottingham Group
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
October 18
Quorn Garden Club
Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens
October 24
Stanford in the Vale Gardening Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
November 12
Wroxton and Balscote Gardening Club
Topical Tips
November 13
Harpenden Horticultural Society
'Pin Me to the Wall...'/Roses (for small gardens)
November 16
Badby & District Horticultural Society
Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens
November 20
Abingdon Horticultural Society
"Pin Me to the Wall..."
2019
January 9
Hardy Plant Society, South Pennine Group
The March of the Women
February 5
Snitterfield Garden Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
February 6
Stansted Mountfitchet Garden Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
February 11
Dunstable Garden Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'/Roses (for small gardens)
February 12
Surrey Garden Design Group
Roses
February 16
Bucks and Oxon Hardy Plant Society
Hellebores
February 20
Brixworth & District U3A Gardening Group
Plants for Shade
February 20
Mickleton Garden Club
Gardens of the USA
February 21
Spratton Garden Club
Come into the Garden, Maud
March 6
Bourtons Gardening Club
The March of the Women
March 13
Welford Gardening Club
Plants for Shade
March 19
Barby Gardening Club
TBC
April 3
Henleaze Garden Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
April 4
Hatch End Horticultural Society
The Gardens of Lamport Hall
April 8
Burton Dassett Gardening Club
Container Gardening
April 13
Preston Bissett Nurseries
Pests and Diseases
April 18
Tredington Garden Club
Hostas
April 24
Gretton Gardening Club
Container Gardening
April 25
Kinver Horticultural Society
Unkindest Cut
April 27
HPS/Derbyshire Group
Topical Tips
May 1
Watlington Gardening Club
TBC
May 11
Preston Bissett Nurseries
Right Plant, Right Place
June 5
Cleeve Prior Garden Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
June 12
Chaddesley Corbett Gardeners' Club
Shakespeare's Plants & Gardens
June 25
Otmoor Garden Society
Plants for Shade
June 27
Northampton Museum Over 60s
Come into the Garden, Maud
July 18
Kidderminster Horticultural Society
"Come into the Garden, Maud"
July 22
Fagus Gardening Club
March of the Women
July 25
Amersham Gardening Association
Permaculture for Gardeners
August 8
Chalfont St Giles Gardens Association
Container Gardening
August 15
Bourne End Horticultural Society
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
August 21
Hampton in Arden Gardening Club
Topical Tips
September 2
Harwell Gardeners' Club
Permaculture
September 3
Kimble and Ellesborough Horticultural Scoiety
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
September 5
Bretforton Garden Club
"Pin Me to the Wall..."
September 7
Cambs & Beds Hardy Plant Society
The Garden at York Gate
September 9
Cottesmore Garden Club
"Pin Me to the Wall..."
September 10
Nottingham Organic Gardeners
Plants for Free!
September 11
Buckland, Drayton Beauchamp and Aston Clinton Horticultural Society
"Pin Me to the Wall..."
September 28
Lincolnshire Hardy Plant Society
Topical Tips
October 2
Pattishall Garden Club
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
October 7
Broughton Gifford Gardening Society
TBC
October 10
Groby Gardening Society
Come into the Garden, Maud
October 16
Baldock Horticultural Society
Plants for Free
October 17
Ashdon Gardening Club
TBC
November 6
Maidford Garden Group
Come into the Garden, Maud
November 13
Reading Gardeners' Club
TBC
November 18
Southam Gardening Club
The March of the Women
November 25
Freeland Gardening Club
Come into the Garden, Maud
2020
January 15
Chinnor U3A/Gardening Group
'Pin Me to the Wall...'
March 11
Women's Horticultural Society, Coventry
'Come into the Garden, Maud'
August 4
Burbage Garden Club
Hostas
October 14
Women's Horticultural Society, Coventry
Plants for Free!
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