Nov 11, 2025 | News
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...
Nov 9, 2025 | News
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...
Oct 14, 2025 | News
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...
Sep 10, 2025 | News
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...
Jul 15, 2025 | News
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...
Jul 1, 2025 | News
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...
Jun 22, 2025 | News
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...
Jun 11, 2025 | News
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...
Jun 5, 2025 | News
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)....
May 13, 2025 | News
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...
