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What a joy our speaker was for this Month! Sally Nex was a thoroughly enjoyable and engaging speaker who shared her unique insight in to what goes on behind the closed doors of Chelsea Flower Show! From the bun fight of the press office she talked us through the privileged vantage point being at Chelsea…

September has arrived! As the harvest gluts begin to abate, and the urgency for watering starts to lessen we find ourselves back in the swing of things at the garden club! What a marvellouss summer it has been, and it was kicked off in wonderfulfashionn with our fabulous trip to Hidcote and Kiftsgate Gardens. The…

Our annual summer outing is coming up and this year we have decided to go to Hidcote and Kiftsgate Gardens. The two gardens lie opposite each other and we will be spending a couple of hours in Hidcote and having lunch before moving over to Kiftsgate. Due to the success of the plant sale the…

May 2016 What a busy month May has been! Our club night was a really good one with Sara Venn speaking telling us about the Incredible Edible program and the Get Growing garden trail. Having started Incredible Edible Bristol 3 years ago it really has gone from strength to strength from the first garden where…

South Bristol Gardening Club AGM April 2016 Great to see those of you who were at the April meeting, it was a particularly chatty one! The club trip to Kiftsgate and Hidcote is being finalised. The coach journey will be £10 per head (this may be subsidised for members depending on how well the plant…

This month our meet up will be visited by Don Everit who will be sharing his knowledge on lilies and flowering bulbs as well as bringing plants to buy! Come along and find out more!

Thank you to everyone that came to the meeting on Tuesday evening and helping to make the club night such a good one, it was nice to see so many faces. A warm welcome to our two newest organising team members, Elaine and Elizabeth, who are doing wonders to make sure the club is as…

Tuesday 1st March is our club night and this month we are being joined by Clare Reid who is the head gardener at Hestercombe Gardens. Having started as a gardener and worked her way up to Head Gardener, she knows the gardens better than most and she will be sharing her unique understanding with the…

Tuesday 2nd February 2016 A warm welcome to all our members was given by Jenny Padfield to start our new gardening club year. We were given a lovely reminder of all the wonderful speakers, trips and activities we had over the course of 2015 from Mick Poultney’s compost tips, Foraging, Invasive Species and garden history…