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Open Gardens Weekend
We were delighted to welcome 268 visitors to our Open Gardens weekend, raising £1340 in programme sales, which will be shared between the Village Hall and the Gardening Club as usual, a real success in stiflingly hot weather. Everybody enjoyed the range of styles and sizes in the 12 gardens as well as some excellent…
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2025 AGM
At our AGM on Tuesday 13th May all the committee who were standing for another year were re-elected and members endorsed a proposed annual subs fee of £25 for the 2025/26 year, also an amendment to our Constitution. This, together with our updated policies, can all be viewed via our Links page. Sylvia was presented…
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Patio pots and hanging baskets….
On a lovely sunny spring evening, members at our April meeting enjoyed a lively talk by Darren Rudge with his ‘tricks of the trade’ on this subject, followed by a practical demonstration of making up a hanging basket which he then kindly donated to our raffle. His initial presentation recommended different types of pots and…
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Jewels of the Garden
In March we welcomed back Diane Clement, this time sharing her vast knowledge of cyclamen & hepaticas – her ‘jewels of the garden’. Her enchanting photography showed us their natural habitats and why they favour similar conditions, then the wide variety available and how to grow & propagate them in our area. There are so…
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2024 Christmas Social Evening
This year we held our first-ever Christmas dinner at The Rag, instead of our usual event at the village hall. We enjoyed a delicious three course meal followed by coffee and mince pies, although most of the mince pies were taken home to be eaten another day! The food was generous and beautifully presented, as…
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Bulbs for year-round colour
At our November meeting we welcomed back the popular Howard Drury of Thedrurys.com with his beautifully illustrated talk on Bulbs for year round colour in the home & garden, including two sequences set to music. It had been postponed from March when he injured his back but was well worth waiting for. As always Howard gave us a wealth of information…
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Building an apple orchard
We welcomed Matthew Nichols from Haywood Park Farm Shugborough, to our October meeting on a damp mild evening. He explained how his family developed their apple growing and juicing business as part of diversification, with his talk covering how to choose a dwarfing rootstock to make picking easier (M26), the grafting process they use, and tips on…
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“Keep them in shape”
At our September meeting we had the welcome return of Philip Aubury former Director of Birmingham Botanic Garden to give a masterclass on the art of pruning. He explained in a very understandable way the “why, what, when and how” including practical demonstrations and some useful tools. We were particularly intrigued by his Darlac Snapper…
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2024 Annual Show
Our Annual Show on Saturday 31st August was a great success in spite of a challenging growing season. There was a beautiful display in the hall, with several first-time entrants and very close scoring. Steve Wroe won the Lewis Cup for the most points in the vegetable classes, presented by Jonathan on behalf of his…
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Bats
We held a brief Special General Meeting on August 13th to update our Constitution, before welcoming Jane Rock of the Staffordshire Bat Group branch of the Bat Conservation Trust with a passionate and fascinating talk about these amazing flying mammals that are more closely related to humans than they are to mice. We could really…