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Notices
January 2012
Omphalodes verna
Anemone ranunculoides pleniflora |
Notices |
Omphalodes verna |
We are holding a plant sale in the morning of 9 June at Peopleton, as a fund raiser. Other groups have tried this with some success. If every member could donate half a dozen plants this would give us a good number to sell so please bear this in mind as you sow, split or discard plants in the spring.
The copy date for the next newsletter is 11 February, our next meeting, but please don't necessarily wait until then. Judith is eagerly awaiting all your contributions.
The new HPS Galanthus Group is holding its inaugural meeting on 19 February in Chaddesley Corbett. Jim Almond will talk about special snowdrops, followed by a visit to Olive Mason's garden, Dial Park, close by. HPS members not in the specialist group are welcome at a cost of £14.
Olive's garden is also open under the NGS on Wednesday 15 February.
The dates for this trip are 2 to 6 July. Anyone who is interested, please contact Becky Dale before the end of January.
Jackie Davies thanked those who had returned conservation scheme plant forms, and asked those who still had forms to bring them to the next meeting.
As usual for our December meeting we will be starting at 1.00pm (an hour early) with a Bring and Share buffet. Please bring some food to share. Drinks, including wine, will be supplied.
Christmas will come early for one lucky person as we will also be holding a free raffle for a gardening token.
There will be a second hand gardening bookstall so please bring along any donations for this, as well as any old gardening tools for our exhibition. The latter should be labelled with your name and explanation of the tool (if this is not obvious). Please give books and tools to David Pollitt.
We are hoping to hold a plant sale in May or June at Peopleton as a fund raiser. Other groups have tried this with some success. If every member could donate half a dozen plants this would give us a good number to sell so please bear this in mind as you sow, split or discard plants in the spring.
There is a form to nominate people to stand for committee in this autumn's newsletter. Please consider standing as new blood is needed as old members step down. Speak to Bev Drewitt or David Pollitt if you are interested and would like more details. There is usually a maximum of 3 committee meetings a year, held the morning of the main meeting, so it need not be too much of a chore.
The newsletter is only as interesting as it is because some members write articles for it. Why not join this select band and write about your garden, a favourite flower or a good garden to visit? All articles gladly received by Judith Doughty in any form viz handwritten, typed or emailed.
We are holding an exhibition of old gardening tools at the December meeting so if anybody has anything suitable, please bring them to the meeting together with a label with details of what it is, its use etc and the owner's name.
Also we are having a sale of gardening books so if anyone wants to donate any books they no longer want or need, please give them to David Pollitt. Any not sold will be given to a charity shop afterwards.
Our group's stand at the Malvern Autumn show was based on Pippa's arrangement of michaelmas daisies, heucheras and acatea borrowed from Paul Picton and Bob Brown. It also incorporated two of the new roll up banners belonging to the Society. The display attracted a lot of attention from many members of the public who might enjoy membership, so we plan to have another stand at next year's show.