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...
We set up the stall at Stonesfield Fete on 22 June. Lots of members donated plants so we had a great selection of veg, annuals and perennials when we opened at 12.00. The fete drew a good attendance in spite of the weather which was dry but windy. By the end we had...
Helene Tronk drew a big audience for her ‘Roses’ talk on Monday 9 June. Helene showed us some of the wide range roses that are now available. This was illustrated with lovely photographs, many from Oxford Botanic Garden where she works. Ideas on companion planting and...
We are delighted to be supporting Stonesfield Fete on Sunday 22 June, 12 – 4pm at Stonesfield Playing Field, Field Close, Stonesfield, OX29 8HA (This is the village playing field and which is different to previous fetes held on Stonesfield Primary School field)....
Our May meeting was a stimulating talk about bees, in particular wild bees, by Filipe Salbany, who works as an ecologist at Blenheim and has been instrumental in finding the dozens of colonies of wild bees that have made their home in the numerous lovely old oak trees...
The Memorial Garden looks great to commemorate VE Day… all done by the Gardening Club’s group. They had made the knitted poppy tribute, planted up the front bed in a simple way with red geraniums and added a few plants to the black summer planters (several of the...
