News: March 2023 Seasonal Container Gardening Our March speaker, Mr. Andrew Babicz, gave an interesting talk full of ideas on Seasonal Container Gardening. Using slides to illustrate his talk, members were shown how containers, of all shapes and sizes, can be used for flowers, fruit, vegetables, and trees to add height and colour to [Continue]
News: February 2023 Growing for the Flower Arranger The club welcomed back Mrs Maike Windhorst from Wickford. Her “home grown flowers” for the floristry industry has grown and diversified since her last visit in 2016. Wild flowers, and what used to be considered as weeds, are very popular in floral art nowadays and No [Continue]
News: November 2022 Our changing Wildlife: The Influence of the Climate Crisis After a 31 year career with Natural England, the Government’s advisor on nature conservation, our Speaker, Dr Chris Gibson took early retirement and calling himself “an enthusiastic all-round naturalist” began giving talks, walks and seminars on conservation, ecology and natural history. Using [Continue]
News: October 2022 Growing Tropical Plants in the UK and their influence on us This month’s club talk was given by Zsuzsa Serer on ‘Growing Tropical Plants in the UK and their influence on us’. Zsuzsa and her husband trained in horticulture in Hungary before moving to the UK over 20 years ago and [Continue]
News: September 2022 Best Flowers and Shrubs to plant for Autumn Members welcomed back Mr George Lockwood who presented the next talk in the series “Flowering Shrubs for each month” – this time it was for September and October. Issuing a list of the shrubs being shown for future reference when looking for that [Continue]
News: August 2022 Seeds – Spread to Survive Originally booked to speak to the Club in 2020 when Covid struck, members enjoyed the long awaited talk called “Seeds – Spread to Survive” by Mrs Anne Lauder. Using a power point presentation, where seed photos could be enlarged and seen in detail, the different methods [Continue]
News: June 2022 Reconnecting with the living world around us The Club welcomed Mrs Keiran Leigh Oliver, the founder of the local charity Human Roots, to talk about its aims and the various projects it has been undertaking. From its allotment in Church Road, the charity has, over the past years, donated a vast amount [Continue]
