L&D Gardening Club

Events

L&D Gardening Club
Programme 2025
14th January
7.00pm

The Gardens Group – Adam Wallis

  • From Grower to Garden Centre
  • How plants are grown and propagated commercially
11th February
7.00pm

Abigail Willis

  • Amazing Garden Innovations
11th March
7.00pm

Chris Smith from Pennard Plants

  • Top tips for cultivating delicious vegetables
8th April
6.00pm

Visit to Brimsmore Garden Centre

  • Discount shopping and talk by the Brimsmore team
  • Brimsmore Garden Centre, Yeovil
13th May
7.00pm

Author Carrie Pakenham

  • How to use herbs, garden and foraged fruits to make preserves.
10th June
7.00pm

Mickey Little

  • Growing roses
  • Formerly of Avon Bulbs now branching out on his own
8th July
7.00pm

Sally Nex

  • Storing and preserving gluts of garden produce
August

NO MEETING

9th September
6.00pm

BBQ and surplus vegetable, fruit & plant swap

  • St Peter’s Churchyard
14th October
7.00pm

Carole Edwards

  • Green fingered baker who loves fruity & punchy flavours
  • A 2022 Great British Bake Off contestant
11th November
7.00pm

Club AGM and Arthur Cole

  • The Newt - A Journey Spanning Three Centuries
9th December
7.00pm

Club Christmas Dinner

  • Details to be confirmed

Tea and coffee with homemade cakes and biscuits and an opportunity for friendly chat and banter are offered before the beginning of each meeting. There is a rota for volunteers to oversee serving refreshments and clearing up.

We hold a raffle at each meeting to supplement club funds and donations are always welcome.

Members are very welcome to bring along surplus plants, fruit and vegetables to swap or give away.

If you have suggestions for topics, speakers or visits, please speak to a committee member.

Previous Meetings
January 2025

At the January meeting, our first of the year when subs. were paid, discount vouchers received, post Christmas and New Year greetings exchanged and the first home-made biscuits of the...

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December 2024

As usual, December is the month for the Club Christmas Dinner. Due to booking pressures at the Cross Keys the exact date for this gathering was the second Monday of...

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November 2024

We began our meeting with our A.G.M with a recap of the last year, which has been good, and things look well set for 2025. Sally Morgan, a published horticultural...

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October 2024

A sprinkle of gardeners gathered in the Parish Hall in Lydford on Tuesday 8th October. No speaker had been booked, no horticultural mega-star had been engaged to give the benefit...

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September 2024

Occasionally circumstances conspire to confound even the best laid plans, and our September meeting of the Gardening Club was scuppered by a perfect storm of unfortunate circumstances amongst the Committee...

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July 2024

The July meeting of the Club featured Dr. Paul Bygrave. If he was once a medical man, he kept the fact quiet but he certainly knew all his Latin terminology....

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June 2024

Sally Nex spoke to the Club on June 11th. She has been before and was very good. Entertaining and informative. It was good to find out that her performance was...

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May 2024

On May 14th Julie Haylock came to the Parish Hall to give a few ideas about planning a new border or rejuvenating an old one. She has form, having exhibited...

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April 2024

Lydford and District Gardening Club had the annual trip to Brimsmore Garden Centre on Tuesday April 9th. All of the attending members behaved themselves, most were not too fussy about...

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