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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.
We
have meetings most months of
the
year (see Programme),
together with day
and evening visits
to gardens large and small. Every summer, many of our members and
friends take part in our long weekend
mini-holiday, visiting gardens
in other parts of the country.
Our
big event of the year is the Annual Show,
which takes place on the
third Saturday of August. As well as the traditional horticultural
classes of flowers, fruit and vegetables, we have classes for cookery,
art and crafts, photography and flower arranging. See our Show Schedule
for full details.
Please
have a look round our site,
and if you have any questions or comments, contact our committee via
the contacts
page.
 Keep
in touch
& talk to us on Twitter
& Facebook
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THE MONTHLY
EMAIL
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.
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An
active
committee is vital
to
our Society
Please consider
joining
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Our
Next meeting
is
Wednesday 20th July 2022,
7.30
pm
The Barlow Edgworth
This is our special guest speaker
An
evening with Bunny Guinness
Wednesday,
20 July 2022 at 7.30pm
“Highgrove
and
Mygrove”
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
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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LATE SUMMER
VISIT
Sunday
4th September
To
THE Gardens OF
melbourne
hall and the Dower house
Melbourne,
Derbyshire
We will visit the ornamental gardens of
Melbourne Hall with a streamside border and a large lake. There
is a cafe at the garden.
The Dower House, is the
home of Griselda Kerr a well known garden writer and a very
knowledgeable plants-woman. Her garden is packed with many rare
and unusual plants and has fine views across the lake. She will be
there to show us around or to let us explore independently, as we
wish.
Between the two gardens
is a large early twelfth century Norman church thought to have been
constructed by a Bishop of Carlisle who wished to have his seat away
from border skirmishes. There are shops and a cafe in the Hall
courtyard and the village is suitable for a Jane Austen film set.
Details of both gardens
are to be found in the RHS Yellow Book for 2022 and associated website,
and we will put more details on the E&DHS website.
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Our Main Event
The Annual Show, Saturday 20th August 2022
Admission from 2pm
Staging of exhibits, Friday evening 6.30-8.40 pm, Saturday morning 8.00-11.15 am
See the Show Schedule on line or from local shops.
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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. |
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