Welcome to Edgworth and District Horticultural Society. |
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We
are a friendly and very active society in the North West of England, located in a small
village between Bolton and Blackburn,
but with members attending our meetings from a 20 mile radius.
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Our
Next meeting is an EVENING VISIT Wednesday 18 May 2022 to the home of Susan and Neil Kinsella The Old Vicarage Garden 238 Church Road Astley, Manchester M29 7FS Meet at approximately 6.30pm, Cost £5-00, includes tea/coffee and a biscuit, proceeds to charity. Our
Evening Visit this year takes us to a beautiful restoration and
renovation project by the present owners Neil and Susan Kinsella. The
garden opens under the NGS scheme and is open to the public at other
times by appointment.
The
vicarage itself is a grade II* listed building with the earliest part
dating back to around 1590. Further additions were added in
the 18th and 19th Centuries.
The gardens comprise of both formal and informal planting and various statues.As you venture further into them, the gardens narrow to follow the woodland stream which runs through it. There are six separate areas which gradually merge into the surrounding trees ending several hundred yards from the frontage of the property. Pat has prepared the following directions, hope to see you there. |
Join our Holiday We are off to Lincolnshire this year an area of the country which we have not yet explored. We will be visiting 2-3 fantastic gardens on each of the 4 days, based for 3 nights in the Lincoln hotel - right in the centre.Our lists are open for reservations to be made and will be available at meetings. Members may invite friends to join us. They do not need to be members. Holiday dates:Sunday
26-Wednesday 29 June 2022
Full details are on the link below.A
Few Places are still available and Open to Non-members!
Let your friends know! http://www.edgworth- |
Directions for our Evening
Visit 18 May 2022
Hope the above is OK – we meet there at around 6.30pm – it should take about 35/40 mins |
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THE MONTHLY EMAIL | An
evening with Bunny Guinness Wednesday, 20 July 2022 at 7.30pm “Highgrove and Mygrove” |
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Irene
(our secretary)
intends to continue sending out an
email bi monthly for the time being. She tries with
all
our help to fill it with news and articles of garden and local
interest. She is keen to receive articles from everyone - all members! Have you read, heard, or know something that might interest or amuse others? Perhaps you have an interesting horticultural experience to relate? Jot down a few sentences and send it to her New ideas give variety and keep it interesting for everyone! If you know of anyone who isn’t on the internet or on email please try to help us to keep them in touch with what the Society is doing. If members want, but are unable to see these reports and the subsequent AGM minutes please help if you can. Instead perhaps a friend or relative could print them. Otherwise members can ring Phil Broughton 01204 300541 or Jean Turner 01204 309394. |
We
invite all Horticultural Society members, and anyone with a shared
interest in listening to Bunny Guinness, our guest speaker, who will be
with us at our special meeting at The Barlow, Bolton Road, Edgworth. Bunny is known to many of us as one of the voices of the much-loved Gardeners’ Question Time. She also writes a weekly page in the Daily Telegraph and runs a very busy landscape-architectural practice with her daughter Unity. She lives in Cambridgeshire in a stone-built house with approximately half an acre of garden and a further eight acres of woodland, farmland orchard and kitchen garden. Entry for this evening is by ticket only, at £15.00 each Available
at our June meeting or from: Pat Whalley
01204 853444
pat_w@edgworth-horticultural-society.co.uk
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An active
committee is vital
to
our Society Please consider joining us |
Bunny
Guinness, a Chartered Landscape Architect, studied horticulture at
Reading University and following graduation went on to complete a post
graduate diploma in Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City
University. She was awarded a Doctorate by the University in 2009.. In addition to her design work which is very much the core business, Bunny has been a panelist on BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time since 1998.nd since 2000 Bunny has also written a weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph. In addition to this she regularly answers questions for BBC Gardeners' World magazine, BBC Gardens Illustrated and has contributed to Country Life, House and Gardens and many other magazines and newspapers. In her own Cambridgeshire garden, Bunny Guinness demonstrates all the principles that have guided her career as a garden designer as well as imaginative plantsmanship. At Chelsea Flower Show she has designed six gold-medal winning gardens as well as serving as a judge and assessor of the large show gardens. |
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As
'covid'
restrictions have been relaxed we are delighted to be back at The
Barlow. We would ask that you are still careful and Do Not Attend
if
you are feeling unwell or have any symptoms of 'covid'. Masks are not
mandatory but please feel free to wear one. Some windows may be open and the hall's air sanitiser will be working. Sanitiser will be available at the door. |