Past Meetings & Events

SEPTEMBER MEETING

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - 19:30

Ian Bedford 

‘Bugs on the Move’

Ian is a retired Research Entomologist and Consultant who can also be heard on BBC Radio Norfolk and his talk will cover how insects and other invertebrates use a range of different signals to find mates, food and habitats. What are these signals? Is climate change affecting bugs?

This talk is a collaboration between RALGA and Reepham Gardening Club, as such RALGA members are very welcome to attend the meeting, just paying the normal £1 members fee at the door (includes tea/coffee and cake!)

AUGUST MEETING

Tuesday, August 16, 2022 - 19:30

Summer Show and Social Evening

A light-hearted, slightly competitive evening with something for everyone including a Quiz.

JULY MEETING CANCELLED

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 - 19:30

Bad news I am afraid. Due to the forecasted heatwave next week our speaker has cancelled. He suffers with asthma and the recent heat has been affecting his voice and due to the very high temperatures expected next Tuesday he has decided to cancel in advance rather than on the day.

However, this has also led us to the decision not to seek a replacement speaker and to cancel the meeting altogether for Health and Safety reasons. With the temperature in Reepham predicated to still be in excess of 30degrees at 7.00pm on Tuesday evening opening the doors at the Town Hall wont solve the heat problem and we don't want anyone suffering with heat exhaustion or worse!

We are ever so sorry for this but look forward to seeing you at the Summer Show on the 16th August.

With apologies.

 

Bryan Thurlow

‘We’ll Meet Again – An Evacuee’s Story’

Bryan has a background in professional theatre and a passion for plants. After his excellent performance of ‘The Perennial Mr. Potter’ a few years ago at the Garden Club he has been invited back for his portrayal of Billy Jackson, who was evacuated with his sister to a small farm near Bury St Edmunds

JUNE MEETING

Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 19:45

Rosemary Ward

‘A Year in the Life of a Market Garden’

Rosemary has always been involved in the family market gardening business. The talk is based on the family business, which Rosemary has now been involved in for more than 40 years. Although it is on a much larger scale than most people’s gardens or allotments, it is surprising how much of what they do applies to smaller veg gardens as well. The talk starts in January, and she will cover various aspects, such as ground preparation, seed sowing, planting, pests and diseases, harvesting and selling.

 

Garden Club Outing

Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 09:00



Something to look forward to is the Garden Club outing.

The Garden Club outing to Burghley House will take place on Thursday 16th June. 

The coach will leave Reepham (Station Road car-park) at 09:00 and leaving Burghley at about 17:00. 

The tickets are £25.00 each and include a guided tour by Joe Whitehead the head gardener, the tour starts at 14:00 and lasts about 1.5/2 hours.  Payment needs to be made at the next meeting either by cash, cheque (made payable H J Stevenson) or by bank transfer to HSBC sort code 403506 account number 01381008 Reepham and District Garden Club (Please use your surname and initial where is asks for a reference). If you can't do a Bank Transfer or make the next meeting you can pop the cash or cheque into Ricky at 7 Crown Meadow. Reepham N10 4SP.

If you want to invite family and friends on the trip you are more than welcome, the more the merrier.

Here is a link to Burghley House, a Tudor mansion built by Queen Elizabeth’s Lord High Treasurer, https://burghley.co.uk/  in case you would like to look it up.

Please email jacquilogan@btinternet.com or call 01362 683620 (Jacqui) if you want anymore information 

MAY MEETING

Tuesday, May 17, 2022 - 19:45

Gabriel Read

Of Gabi’s Garden

‘A Year in the Cut Flower Garden’

Gabi is an organic flower grower and florist and will talk about the flowers and foliage she grows for her floristry studio.

APRIL MEETING & AGM

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - 19:30

AGM at 7.30 followed by:

Ellen Mary

‘Plants and Nature for Wellbeing’

Ellen has been listed in the Top 5 Women Influencers in Horticulture by Grow Your Own Magazine! She has appeared on many TV programmes and is the Horticultural Co-Ordinator for the Royal Norfolk Show. The wellbeing talk will explore the history of social and therapeutic horticulture and how plants and nature overall help our physical and mental health wellbeing.

 

MARCH MEETING PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE (AS PREVIOUS DATE WAS INCORRECT AND CHANGE OF VENUE)

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 19:45

Bob Coutts

‘Gardening for Spring’

Bob, who is a professional gardener and retired Head Gardener at Somerleyton Hall, has a wealth of horticultural knowledge and has given many talks to the Gardening Club on numerous subjects. Back by popular demand the ‘talk’ (which, from past experience, will be very hands-on and descriptive) is very apt for this time of year.

JANUARY MEETING - CANCELLED

Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - 19:45

Jane 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.

Unfortunately, with the present Covid situation we have had to suspended live meetings for the time being, I was hoping not to have to go back to Zoom meetings, but needs must and I have booked Nancy Stevens (who some of you may remember gave us two excellent talks during last year's lockdown) to give us a Zoom talk on the 18th January entitled 'Spectacular, Surreal, Surprising'  - Gardening in space, underwater and world wars - with some glorious plants and trees. I have to say it sounds most intriguing!

I will send out Zoom invites over the next few days, if I can get my head around how to use Zoom again (I have to say I thought I had seen the last of it!!!)

All the very best and see you on the 18th 7.15pm-7.30pm for the speaker's talk at about 7.40pm.

Jeff Johnson

 

DECEMBER MEETING CANCELLED

Tuesday, December 14, 2021 - 19:00

CANCELLED

I'm afraid The Committee has decided to cancel this year's 'Christmas Party'.

With only 20 members wishing to attend (that includes The Committee) together with the uncertainty surrounding what happens next with regard to COVID and the real possibility of numbers falling off even further we felt that we just couldn't plan properly for this year's event.

We are sure that those who wished to attend will be bitterly disappointed as we are, but with so few numbers it just isn't feasible.

We thank you all for your continuing support. Without you, The Members, there wouldn't be a Gardening Club and here's hoping that 2022 will see us getting back to some kind of normality.

We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and hopefully see many of you next year.

Keep safe and warm.

It’s Christmas Party Time, starts at 7pm.  

I am pleased to report that our December Meeting (party) will also feature a brief presentation by Thomas Courtauld DL (Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk) on 'The Queens Green Canopy'.

The precis of the QGC is : The Queen’s Green Canopy is an initiative to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by encouraging people to plant and protect trees as a legacy to Her Majesty’s Service to the Nation. The QGC will invite the four Nations of the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee” and will encourage people to plant well with healthy trees that will not only survive but thrive for generations to come. Everyone from community groups, schools, scout groups, corporates, counties, councils and parishes are encouraged to plant trees – from saplings to majestic avenues of significant trees – to mark this extraordinary occasion. As well as inviting people to plant new trees, existing woodland will also be dedicated to QGC by erecting commemorative plaques to mark the occasion and preserve forests for the future, in The Queen’s name. The QGC was launched in May. There is an excellent website at www.queensgreencanopy.org which explains it all and how your trees can be recorded.

With Covid precautions in mind things will be slightly different this year. We normally ask you to bring party food to share and whilst we will provide wrapped chocolates and individual packs of nibbles for the tables you may, by all means, bring your own non-sharing snacks.

As usual we will provide mulled wine and non-alcoholic punch, together with soft drinks.

There will be a quiz, but numbers on each table will be limited and we ask that only one person per table has the pen and answer sheet.

At our last 'Christmas Bash' we asked if any members would like to entertain us with any ditties and we had a few volunteers including myself! These don't have to be song, but could also be a light-hearted story  or something similar - mine was a light-hearted prayer!

Under the present circumstances to enable us to properly cater for this 'do' could I please ask you to let me know by 30 November whether you will be coming.

Jeff Johnson

(jeffandcaroljohnson@yahoo.co.uk)

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