Category: Events
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Summer Coach Trip
We were blessed with good weather for this joint visit to RHS Bridgewater with our friends from Burntwood Gardening Guild. It was a wonderful day out with a wide variety of areas to see; with the weather we’ve experienced it looked more like early autumn in some places! We all had our favourite parts, whether…
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Midsummer Fair 20th June
We had a brilliant day at the fair with our club’s plant stall and we raised an amazing £292.40 for the Village Hall, which was included in the overall total of £2337 net. Thank you very much to everyone who grew the plants to sell, and who helped out on the day, a great team.…
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Visit to Shugborough Forest Garden
The weather was kind for our visit to the Forest Garden at Shugborough on Friday 15th May. We enjoyed a guided tour by James with his infectious enthusiasm for ‘Arcadia’, which is now in the final stages of construction ready for an autumn opening. We saw how plantains & nettles, with others usually considered as ‘weeds’,…
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2025 Annual Show
We were delighted with the success of our Show this year with an amazing 247 entries after such a hot dry summer when everything seemed to have gone over early, but our exhibitors did us proud, and with the home produce too! There was a wonderful display in the village hall, and for the first time,…
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Summer Coach Trip
A week after our Open Gardens weekend, we had a full coach of members and guests for a wonderful trip to Waterperry Gardens near Oxford. The weather was just right, not too hot with a lovely breeze. As well as the 8 acres of landscaped gardens with so many different areas, we enjoyed the plant centre, gift…