Harriet Rycroft – 10 Nov

On 10 November we had a talk, Planting pots for winter interest, and demonstration from Harriet Rycroft. Harriet has talked to the Gardening Club before, once via Zoom during COVID and then more recently. Harriet’s talk was illustrated with wonderful photographs...

War memorial – 9 Nov

The work of the Gardening Club’s war memorial group was much admired at the service held on Sunday 9 November. The knitted and crocheted poppies glowed in the grey morning light. The design flowed like a river round the memorial. Stonesfield thanks the group who...

The Chatty Gardener – 13 October

Mandy Bradshaw (AKA The Chatty Gardener) made a welcome return to talk to the Gardening Club on 13 October. This time she gave us a whirlwind tour of 13 Cotswold gardens each beautifully photographed. The theme was The Four Seasons with three gardens per season and...

Dr Lauren Baker – 8 September

On Monday 8 September Dr Lauren Baker, Secondary Education Officer at Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum (and SGC committee member), talked to us about carnivorous plants.  Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of...

Nicola Hope – 14 July

On Monday 14 July we had a talk from Nicola Hope on Designing an Organic Garden illustrated by many beautiful pictures. Nicola also highlighted many of the private gardens (many famous names) she had worked at plus others than can be seen by the public. Nicola used...

Garden walk and drinks – 30 June

The Gardening Club gathered in Church Street to visit the first of the four gardens on our Monday evening walk and lovely it was too, many of us had never been inside… some only when it was a pub. Our thanks to Pete and Laura for allowing us in and for early...