We have arranged a tour around the Royal Mint, which is about 15mins the other side of Cardiff at Pontyclun. The highly recommended tours give access to the Royal Mint where all British and many foreign coins are/ have been produced for currency and collection purposes during its 1100 year history. The tour will take …
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Lechlade Gardening Club Event at 07:00pm for a 07:30pm start in the Memorial Hall, Lechlade We are excited to welcome Tim Walker, more details below Tim Walker is coming to give us a talk,all about pollination and pollinators, not just about bees which are incredible pollinators and we know are so very important but also about snails, bats and …
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Lechlade Gardening Club Event at 07:00pm for a 07:30pm start in the Memorial Hall, Lechlade We’re excited to welcome Adam Alexander for a special talk: “Adventures of a Seed Detective” More details below In this talk Adam takes his audience on a journey around the world on a quest to uncover rare, endangered and above …
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This week, on the one very, very windy day, Maintenance had a huge bonfire. He was burning three large, variegated box balls which had succumbed to the box tree caterpillar, and burning was by far the best solution to getting rid of the branches which were inevitably full of pupating larva. The rational for digging …
Well, I have a feeling that we are going to have to rethink our gardening in England if this weather pattern is here to stay. Water conservation will be paramount. Gravel gardens will be the norm – I’m even wondering whether to turn the herbaceous borders here in to gravel beds because it has been …
A Talk by Roger Umpelby The August meeting on Wednesday 13 August is all about British Butterflies. There is so much concern about these lovely insects and their declining numbers that hopefully lots of you will come to find out moreabout them and what we can do to help. Roger is a professional entomologist and …
Local visit to Pudding Hill Barn This year we have arranged to visit the above garden on Wednesday 9th July at 6.30 pm Established in 2022 by the current owners Karen Gray and Marcus Child the gardens have been carefully designed to make the most of the natural form and landscape on the edge of …
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Yeo Valley operate one of the largest organically certified ornamental gardens in the country. The 6.5 acre garden is south of Bristol overlooking the Mendip Hills. The aim of the whole garden is to put nature first and encourage biodiversity. The centre piece is a purple glasshouse in a more formal design with defined colour …
We are heading to Shropshire to visit the David Austin Rose Centre to see over 4000 roses planted in six themed rose gardens. Reputed to be one of the finest rose gardens in the world – we can spend the afternoon wandering through the fragrant pathways appreciating all the wonderful colours of the spectacular roses. …
Colin Roberts is coming to give us a talk on “For The Love Of Salvias”. Colin is an experienced gardener, he is the head gardener at Adwell House. He is so experienced and has such a love of salvias, which are just fabulous perennials,that he has been known as a ‘salviaholic’. Salvias are becoming so …