Open Gardens – 26 June

Stonesfield Open Gardens is 2pm – 5pm on Sunday 26th June 2022; (gardens stay open until 5.30pm). We have a number gardens open to the public, many which have never been previously open. There is a wide variety including – pretty, bijou garden with good vieware – very...

School Fete donation

The gardening club had a stand at the school fete on Saturday 21 May. The weather was kind and the members of the committee were able to enjoy the afternoon sunshine talking to Stonesfield residents. We welcomed 3 new members. We also raised £104 by selling sunflowers...

Summer Luxuriance

On Monday 9 May we had Harriet Rycroft visit us for a talk ’Summer Luxuriance’. This was a follow up to her 2021 Zoom talk which we all throughly enjoyed, hence there was a very good turnout of members to see her ‘live’. Harriet started by showing us photographs...

Another successful plant sale

Fortunately Saturday 23 April was a dry day. However it was a little cool and windy but this did not discourage the many visitors to our annual plant sale at Four Acres, Pond Hill. As in 2021, a small queue had formed by the time we opened just before 8.30. From then...

March AGM and talk

In the middle of March we finally managed to get together in person to hold our AGM and to welcome our first speaker of 2022. The meeting was very well attended (probably due to the promise of a glass of wine!) and we rattled through the business part of the meeting...

Wychwood Forest Trust talk – 8 Nov

Our talk on Monday 8 November was from Neil Clennell, Chief Executive of Wychwood Forest Trust (formerly The Wychwood Project). Neil started by taking us through the history of Wychwood Forest and the key activities that changed to the landscape since the 13th Century...