Past Meetings & Events
Outing to Blickling Lodge
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 14:30This is confirmation of a club garden visit to Blickling Lodge on 22 June at 2.30pm.
Blickling Lodge is a Georgian house (not open) set in 17 acres of parkland including cricket pitch, mixed border, walled kitchen garden, yew garden, woodland/water garden.
You will need to make your own way there, but it will be worth it for this group private visit to gardens which do open under the National Garden Scheme, but are opening especially for us. It will also be a great opportunity to catch up and meet face to face for a chat rather than talking via Zoom!
Admission is £5.00 each, but unfortunately at the moment they are not offering refreshments, but you can bring your own and there are plenty of benches in the grounds to rest your weary legs.
To enable me to advise the owners of the Lodge of numbers, could you please confirm by the 15th June whether you intend to join us. Payment is at the entrance.
How to find them:-
Blickling Lodge
Blickling
Norwich
Norfolk
NR11 6PS
½m N of Aylsham.
Leave Aylsham on Old Cromer Road towards Ingworth. Over hump back bridge & house is on the right.
All the very best.
Jeff
PS there will be more to follow with another Garden visit booked for 20 July and speakers line up from September onwards, dependant on the Town Hall reopening
PLANT SALES
Saturday, May 22, 2021 - 09:30PLANT SALES
Rather than one large sale this year, due to ongoing COVID restrictions we will have a small table twice a week EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY (Weather Permitting!) STARTING ON SATURDAY 22 MAY 9:30 TO 11 a.m. for the next 2-3 weeks in REEPHAM MARKET PLACE - SOCIAL DISTANCING RULES WILL APPLY
If you have any spare plants to donate please bring them along to the stall before 9.30.
Thank You
MAY ON-LINE MEETING
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 19:30Hawk Honey
Of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust
‘Wasps, Malicious or Misunderstood’
A follow up to Hawk’s very informative 2019 talk ‘Bees in Your Garden’. We all know a wasp when we see one, or do we? Much maligned throughout the summer months, yet what do we really know about wasps? Come along and find out more about these wonderful insects and judge for yourselves whether they are malicious or misunderstood.
APRIL ON-LINE MEETING
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 19:30
Martyn Davey
‘The Allotment and Vegetable Growing’
This talk should prove very popular as many members and guests not only grow vegetables but also operate allotment plots. The talk will not only be of interest to vegetable growers as Martyn focuses on soil and pest control as well.
MARCH ON-LINE MEETING
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 19:30NANCY STEVENS
'Delightful, Delovely, Deranged'
Back by popluar demand, all the way from Scotland, Nancy will give a talk with wonderful photos of strange horticultural delights. From the Superbloom of the Atacama and the Flying Duck Orchid of Australia to the 'Apple of Death' (yes really) of Central America, the Red Spider Lily of Japan and all points in between.
FEBRUARY ON-LINE MEETING
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - 19:30Professor Tom Williamson
‘Humphry Repton and his Norfolk Parks and Gardens’
Tom is a Professor of History at the UEA and is a landscape historian and landscape archaeologist. He is currently involved with the Gardens Trusts of Hertfordshire and Norfolk in researching the work of the designer Humphry Repton in these two counties.
JANUARY ON-LINE MEETING
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - 19:30Our speaker for our next on-line meeting on 19th January will be by Nancy Stevens an experienced Garden Club speaker of many years and the title of the talk is 'A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever' - Japanese Gardens. Nancy is from north of the border living near Glasgow, but she assures me that she doesn't speak with a strong Glaswegian accent!
Our meeting will start at 7.30pm with Nancy giving her talk at about 7.40pm, followed by questions and answers.
Zoom invites will be sent out nearer the time with log-on available from 7.15.
NOVEMBER 0N-LINE MEETING
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 19:30Dr Ian Bedford
'Butterfly Gardening'.
Dr Ian Bedford is a Research Entomologist & Speaker. Ian has been fascinated by insects and other invertebrates for most of his life. From studying butterflies on the South Downs as a youngster, he went on to pursue a career in Research Entomology and ran the Entomology Dept at the John Innes Centre in Norwich up to his recent retirement after 42 yrs. Following his retirement Ian now provides independent entomological advice to companies that are developing environmentally safe plant protection products and he also promotes and encourage wildlife-friendly home gardening.
In addition Ian talks on a number of radio shows and currently has the great honour of being the resident 'Go To' Entomologist for BBC Radio Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire. He is also the 'Entomologist who Entertains' on Toby Buckland's Sunday morning show for gardeners on BBC Radio Devon where he tells a different insect story each week!!!
Ian has also featured on BBC Gardeners Question Time and appeared on TV shows such as BBC Gardeners' World, Inside Out, Tonight, Horizon, BBC Breakfast, A to Z of TV Gardening, The Great British Garden Revival and even Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule!
This should not only be fun talk but a very informative one on how we can encourage butterflies to enjoy our gardens.
WebEx invites will be sent out nearer the meeting.
OCTOBER MEETING
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 19:30Dear Garden Club Members,
It will not come as a surprise that our October meeting at the Town Hall is now cancelled, BUT we will have an on-line meeting on 20 October and I will post details when a speaker has been booked.
Our on-line meeting on Tuesday was very good with Joe Whitehead, Head Gardener at Burghley giving us a very informative, fascinating and very amusing insight into the history of the gardens. He also provided us with a presentation on the work he and his team have carried out during his 3 year tenure. The talk has definitely whetted our appetite to hopefully organise a club visit next year (COVID permitting!)
Watch this space for details of next months speaker.
OCTOBER MEETING
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 19:30Hello Fellow Gardeners,
Now the weather has turned I am back indoors catching up on 'office work'.
As per my earlier email not surprisingly we have had to cancel our October Town Hall meeting, but I am pleased to advise you that for our replacement on-line meeting I have arranged for Dr. Tony Leech, Norfolk County Recorder of Fungi, to give us a talk entitled 'Fungal Friends and Foes', which will describe the role of fungi in our gardens.
Tony has given the Club a number of lively talks over the years and no doubt this will be no exception.
As normal I will send a WebEx invitation and when I do I will send a separate email asking you to confirm whether you have received the invitation or not.
Our meeting will start at 7.30pm (however, please try and log-on at anytime between 7.15-7.30) with Tony giving his talk at 7.45pm, followed by questions and then (if we have time) as in the past, we will open it up to all members to:-
'Show and Tell' (anything or plants of the moment that they are proud of),
'Plant Identification' (we all have plants that we don't know the name of, either we have thrown away the label or they have just popped up and we can't find them on the net - but I am sure that someone in the club will probably know exactly what they are)
'Questions Regarding any Gardening Problems'.
If you could please send any photos to me in advance, as I will then, during the meeting, share with the group when you are ready to talk, therefore eliminating the need for you to learn how to bring up the photo or photos yourself.
I am sure you will not want to miss this talk and if you haven't joined us before for an on-line meeting I would urge you to do so this time.