Filipe Salbany – 12 May

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...

Memorial Garden commemorates VE Day

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...

Successful plant sale

A new (late decision) venue but The White Horse garden gave us lots of space to display the Gardening Club’s wares. We started our set up at 7.30 and were ready for the first customer by opening time The weather was kind to us… a little cool but no wind or rain so the...

Plant Sale – 26 April

Stonesfield Gardening Club will be holding their annual plant sale on Saturday 26 April. This year it will be in a NEW location at The White Horse,, The Ridings, OX29 8EA between 8.30am and 11am. Members have been busy growing plants to give you the maximum choice. On...

Timothy Walker – 10 March

One of the Gardening Club favourite speakers, Timothy Walker, returned to Stonesfield on 10 March. This year’s talk took us on the journey through Tenerife that he and his Oxford students went on each year whilst on their annual field trip. We followed Timothy...

AGM and Owls – 10 February

Monday 10 February was the first meeting in 2025 and started with the AGM. Whilst members enjoyed a glass of wine, the secretary gave a resume of 2024 and outlined the 2025 calendar. The treasurer then presented the 2024 accounts and 2025 budget which were approved by...