Past Meetings & Events
JUNE MEETING
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 19:15Jan Smith
A volunteer at 'Ryston Rachel’s Hedgehog HoteL'
‘Hedgehogs and Their Benefit to Gardens and Gardeners’
Jan is one of a team of volunteers led by Rachel Brown. They rescue, rehabilitate and then release hedgehogs from Norfolk, the Fens and parts of Suffolk. Her talk will cover both the benefits to gardeners and how important gardens and gardeners are to hedgehogs.
MAY MEETING
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - 19:30Fritha Waters
The Experiences of a Jobbing Gardener.
You might see the gardener just once a week but what are they doing the rest of the time?
Fritha Waters leads you up the garden path of her time as a gardener and designer in Norfolk, her observances and experiences whilst working in the gardens of others. She examines how nostalgia and history influence our tastes and how gardening has crept into other aspects of her life, seemingly without her knowing it.
ANNUAL PLANT SALE
Saturday, May 13, 2023 - 08:30Annual Plant Sale
Reepham Market Place
From 8.30 until sold out.
APRIL MEETING CANCELLED
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 19:30CANCELLED DUE TO ILL HEALTH
Simon Partridge
‘The How Hill Trust and Gardens’
Simon is the Director of How Hill Trust, Ludham. He gave us an excellent talk in 2017 on this ‘Environmental Study Centre for the Broads’, including its fantastic gardens. He will now bring us up to date as to what has been happening at How Hill during the last 5 years.
MARCH MEETING
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 19:30Jim Payne
‘The Secret Life of Plants?’
Jim is the owner of Walnut Tree Garden Nursery and his talk 'The Secret Life of Plants’ explores some of the latest and most remarkable discoveries about the inner workings of plants. How do plants tell the time? How and why do plants communicate with one another? Did you know that some plants can generate enough heat to melt snow, whilst others nourish their young? These and other extraordinary stories from the secret life of plants makes for a fascinating talk that will enhance your enjoyment of the plants in your garden and in the countryside about us.
Plants will also be on sale!
FEBRUARY MEETING
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 - 19:30Jane Steward
‘The Wonderful Medlar, Our Forgotten Fruit’
Jane is owner of Eastgate Larder, specialist grower and producer of medlar preserves. Jane will talk about her passion for reviving the medlar and the orchard they have planted at Eastgate.
JANUARY MEETING
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 19:30Chris Bell
‘Climate Change’
Chris is weather forecaster, UEA lecturer and BBC Look East Weather Presenter. This will be a talk given by an expert on this present very topical subject. The talk will also touch on forecasting, with plenty of local photographs as illustration.
CHRISTMAS PARTY CANCELLED
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 19:00Due to the bad weather we decided to POSTPONE last night's Christmas Party.
BUT, the hall is available for NEXT TUESDAY and the weather forecast is set to be frost free so how about it - SHALL WE PARTY THEN!!!!
Please let me know, by email, if you will come along next Tuesday as we want a good turnout and if we know rough numbers in advance we can get the booze in and the non-alcoholic punch of course.
Hope you can all make it and looking forward to it after all the ups and downs we have had, even since the lockdowns, with us cancelling a summer meeting as it was too hot!!!
Looking forward to your responses.
NOVEMBER MEETING
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 - 19:30Erica Vaccari
'Bressingham Gardens Through the Seasons'
Erica is a garden writer and photographer, published mainly in Italy and Slovenia. She is also the head of a small bespoke Garden and Wildflower tour agency. She came to Bressingham in 2020 as a volunteer gardener and ended up joining the Bloom family. Today she is the author for the Bressingham Gardens website, manager of the online shop, coordinator of the Volunteer Programme, coordinator of Bressingham residential Garden trips, guided visits and workshops.