Welcome to South Bristol Gardening Club

South Bristol Gardening Club is not a big gardening club, (we only have just over 50 members) but we pride ourselves on being one of the friendliest! Our meetings and visits are open to non-members, and our after-talk tea and cake is a lovely time to get to know each other. For a small (as…

We’ll be welcoming podcaster and horticultural expert Joff Elphick as our gardening club speaker on Wednesday 1 November with the intriguing talk entitled ‘ Crayfish on the Lawn and other gardening stories. There will also be a free raffle and tea and cake. We have a gluten free cake, but if you would like to…

South Bristol Gardening Club annual plant stall will be at the Tobacco Factory Plant Market on Sunday 7 May (10-2.30). We need volunteers to help use cover the stall. Please let us know here if you can do an hour or two – complete the form below https://bs3ln.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/plant-market-volunteers

This year’s summer trip will be to the Royal Horticultural Societies flagship garden at RHS Wisley.  About RHS Wisley George Fergusson Wilson, a keen grower of fruit and orchids, bought the Surrey site in 1878 and established his ‘Oakwood experimental garden. After Wilson’s death in 1902, Sir Thomas Hanbury, founder of La Mortola garden in…

As spring gets ever closer, you’re probably thinking of what new plants you might like to grow in your garden. Here are some upcoming plant fairs and events happening locally that you might find interesting. Rare plant fair With nearly twenty specialist growers attending, you’re sure to find something special to add to your gardens.…

The South Bristol Gardening Club is organised by an Organising Team.  This consists of a Club Organiser whose duties include acting as Chairman of the organising team, a Treasurer whose duties include maintaining the books and financial records of the club, and a Secretary whose duties include keeping and distributing minutes of organising team meetings…

South Bristol Gardening Club Annual Meeting 2023 Monday 6 February, 2023 St Paul’s Church, Southville Present: Matthew Symonds (MS), Shirley Downey (SD), Jenny Bhambri-Lyte (JBL), Eunice Bliss, Rita Cormack, Olive Esposito, Barbara Hillman, Stephen Hurley, Elizabeth Jackson, Chery Loy-Hancocks, Peter Loy-Hancocks, Jenny Padfield, Jenny Wakenshaw, Elizabeth Wilson, Kevin Steer, Helen Bater, Lynn Clarke, Bev Moss,…

South Bristol Gardening Club Annual Meeting Monday 6 February, 2023 – 7.30pm The South Bristol Gardening Club annual meeting will take place on Monday 6th February, 7.30pm at St Paul’s Church in Southville.  As well as reviewing what we did in 2023, inviting people to join the club steering group and reviewing our finances, we’ll…

Join us for a trip to RHS Rosemoor, an enchanting 65-acre RHS garden in a Devon valley offering formal and informal plantings to magical effect.  Experience with us tranquility, spadefuls of planting inspiration and a marvellous day out.  Thanks to our success at the Tobacco Factory Plant Stall we are able to subsidise the cost of…

We have booked a tour of the University of Bristol Botanical Gardens  on Saturday 11th June at 2pm (to follow on from our talk by Nick Wray, Botanic Garden Curator, at our May meeting).  We will need a minimum of ten people to book a group tour; in the event that we get less than…