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Hodnet and District Garden Club, May 2014

Hodnet & District Garden ClubOur next meeting will be on Tuesday 20th May at 7.30 pm at the Lyon Hall, when four of our members will take part in an Open Mic session, topics as follows:

David Rollinson – A Daffodil Adventure
Trish Dawson – Food for Thought
David Smither – Reasons Behind the Seasons
Richard Holtom – Darwin & The Galapagos

This promises to be a really interesting evening, and we welcome visitors to come along as well as regular members .
Entry fee for guests is £2.00 per person, £12 for a whole year’s subscription.  Tea and biscuits are served after the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there.
 

Easter visit to the Wetlands April 2014

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Hodnet Footpath Group’s walk to Wollerton Wetlands and beyond on Easter Monday was well attended.  A total of 18 people and a dozen dogs enjoyed lovely weather and beautiful scenery, as well as an opportunity to familiarise themselves with local footpaths along with others who enjoy walking.

If you are interested to know more about the work of the Footpath Group, do have a look at our website page here and if you would like to join in with our activities this summer we have a meeting planned for later this week, so it’s an ideal time to get in touch.

Please click on each gallery of pictures to see larger photographs.

Below are pictures of some of the spring wildlife we saw.

Hodnet and District Garden Club, April 2014

Everyone is welcome to our next meeting on Tuesday April 15th at 7.30pm in the Lyon Hall, when we welcome William and Louise Friend to speak to us on the topic of:
Plants from Mountains, Moorland & Meadows for the NW Midlands
At Mucklestone Nurseries they are now able to grow a complimentary range of plants suited to the moister, more acidic conditions of the west and north of Britain, such as azaleas, heathers, rhododendrons, bamboos, birches, rowans, Acers and herbaceous perennials. The areas around the nursery are being laid out as woodland and meadow garden areas. This allows the majority of plants to be propagated from stock of proven hardiness and suitability to the area and allows visitors to see how the plants grow.
Hodnet and District Garden Club meets every month on the third Tuesday at the Lyon Hall, 7:30pm.
Visitors are most welcome to come along to our talks and partake in a cup of tea and biscuit. Entry fee for guests is £2.00 per person, or why not join our club – it’s only £12 for a whole year.
 
 

Hodnet and District Garden Club – March 2014

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 18th March, when we welcome
Helen Harrison, who will speak to us on the subject of Propagating Dahlias
Helen is Chair of the Stone Chrysanthemum & Dahlia Society and has exhibited her Dahlias at Bridgemere Garden Centre and Stoke on Trent Flower Show over many years, winning both silver and bronze awards. She has also been the recipient of a prestigious Banksian Medal, named after Joseph Banks who was one of the founders of the RHAS and also sailed with Captain James Cook on HMS Endeavour.
Dahlias are easy to grow and have a range that offers something to please everyone. There is every colour (except blue) and colour combination, with sizes ranging from the smallest Topmix or Lilliput Dahlias to giants with blooms over a foot in diameter.
EVERYONE  IS WELCOME
We meet every month on the third Tuesday at the Lyon Hall, 7:30pm
Visitors are most welcome to come along to our talks and partake in a cup of tea and a biscuit. Entry fee for guests is £2.00 per person.
Or why not join our club? It’s only £12 for a whole year.
 
 

Hodnet and District Garden Club – Feb. 2014

EVERYONE WELCOME: we meet every month on the third Tuesday at the Lyon Hall, 7:30pm
Visitors are most welcome to come along to our talks and partake in a cup of tea and biscuit. Entry fee for guests is £2.00 per person, or why not join our club? It’s only £12 for a whole year.
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 18th February, when we welcome Chris Neil from NGS who will tell us all about the National Garden Scheme.
The National Gardens Scheme was founded in 1927 to raise money for the nurses of the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) by opening gardens of quality and interest to the public.
In the first year 609 gardens raised over £8,000. A network of volunteer County Organisers was set up and by 1931 over 1,000 private gardens were open and Country Life magazine produced a handbook, known as “The Yellow Book” because of its bright cover.
 
 
 

Hodnet and District Garden Club

Our next meeting will be on  Tuesday 21st January,  at 7:30pm when we welcome Derek Heathcote who will be speaking on the subject of Growing sweet peas from seed to the show bench.
Derek has been growing sweet peas since the age of 10 and has built up his sweet pea business gradually over the past thirty years.  They have achieved 4 Silver Gilt Medals and 6 Gold Medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. They also exhibit at most of the large flower shows across the country, including the local Wem Sweet Pea Show (home of the sweet pea).
EVERYONE WELCOME – we meet every month on the third Tuesday at the Lyon Hall, 7:30pm. Visitors are most welcome to come along to our talks and partake in a cup of tea and biscuit.
 
 
 
 
 

Hodnet and District Garden Club – Nov. 2013

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 19th November at 7.30 pm at the Lyon Hall, when we will be holding a GARDENERS’ QUESTION TIME
Why not come along and get expert advice for those garden problems?
Our panellists are:

  • Andrew Humphris – Head Gardner Wollerton Hall Gardens
  • Martin Ford – Radio Shropshire’s ‘Garden Phone In’
  • Graham Shillaber – Chelsea Flower Show Judge and Thames Valley Radio ‘Garden Phone-In’

EVERYONE WELCOME
We meet every month on the third Tuesday at the Lyon Hall, 7:30pm
Visitors are most welcome to come along to our talks and partake in a cup of tea and biscuit. Entry fee for guests is £2.00 per person,
or why not join our club; it’s only £12 for a whole year.
 

Hodnet and District Garden Club

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 15th October, 7.30pm at the Lyon Hall, when we welcome Fiona Chancellor
Fiona has a three-quarter acre garden in Little Wenlock called Windy Ridge. She is an ardent supporter of the National Garden Scheme and has won a number of awards for her garden including the Daily Mail and Shropshire’s Best Garden of the Year award, along with other awards in the English Garden Magazine. Her presentation will show how her garden has progressed over the years and we are sure the evening will be interesting and informative.
EVERYONE WELCOME
We meet every month on the third Tuesday at the Lyon Hall, 7:30pm
Visitors are most welcome to come along to our talks and partake in a cup of tea and biscuit. Entry fee for guests is £2.00 per person, or why not join our club; it’s only £12 for a whole year.
 
 

Join the Conversation

Information about this series of events has been forwarded rather belatedly to the Hodnet Footpath Group, but we are posting it here in case others are interested in taking part in this county-wide discussion on the effects of spending cuts in the public sector.
“The public sector in Shropshire faces huge spending cuts in the coming years. The changes that ensue will undoubtedly impact on your local services, so we want to hear from you and understand what you want and need from public services. Do you have ideas as to how things could run more efficiently? What services do you consider a priority? We want to hear from you. We are holding a series of events around the county where you can “Join the Conversation” and pose questions to senior representatives from Shropshire Council, the police, the fire and rescue service, and Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group.”
Meetings have been arranged in different parts of Shropshire on four evenings this week. The last one is on Friday 20th September at 7pm at Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury. Full details can be found [here]; please note, if you wish to submit a question, this has to be done in advance.  You can find the link to send in questions by email to the organising team on the Shropshire Newsroom report.

Hodnet and District Garden Club – Sept. 2013

We meet regularly on the third Tuesday of each month, at the Lyon Hall at 7.30pm.Visitors are most welcome to come along to our talks and partake in a cup of tea and biscuit. Entry fee for guests is £2.00 per person, or why not join our club; it’s only £12 for a whole year.
This month’s meeting will be on Tuesday 17th September, when we welcome Jon and Cheryl Kean who will speak on the subject of Permaculture.
Permaculture principles provide a set of universally applicable guidelines that can be used when designing sustainable systems for the land and community as a whole.
Jon and Cheryl have applied the design principles of permaculture over the past 14 years to their holding in Pennerley, which is a recognised Learning and Demonstration (LAND) site by the Permaculture Assoc. They will show slides of their holding including a forest garden, allotment garden, back yard garden and biodynamic garden to demonstrate how they have applied the 12 design principles.