All meetings are on Wednesdays at 7.30 pm unless otherwise stated
March 18th – Julian Wormald – ‘The Underclass: A Gardener’s Best Friends . Geophytes (bulbs, tubers and corms) to lift the spirits from October to March‘
Many of us will have visited the garden in Rhydcymerau created by our members Julian and Fiona. It is renowned for its tapestry of flowers planted under trees and shrubs and also in the open. Much of that tapestry is down to bulbs, corms and tubers – Julian’s talk is bound to be both informative and inspiring.
April 15th – Malcolm Berry ‘The Dreaded Gardener‘ – ‘The Diverse Garden’
Malcolm Berry is a Natural Gardening tutor and speaker, promoting home food production and the encouragement of biodiversity – diversity creates diversity, the greater the diversity in flora the greater the diversity in fauna.
May 19th – Coach trip to Upton Castle Gardens, Cosherton, Pembrokeshire
Please note the change of day (Tuesday) and time, as this will be a daytime event, exact time and location of departure to be announced.
Surrounding the early 13th-century castle, 35 acres of listed historic gardens offer an extraordinary collection of rare trees and shrubs. Highlights include: rhododendrons and azaleas, a formal rose garden, herbaceous borders, and a traditional early 19th-century walled vegetable garden.
June 17th – Liz Zorab – ‘Creating a Hidden Vegetable Garden’
Liz Zorab is a best-selling author, award-winning video maker and gardener, and food grower. She is a gardening expert on BBC Radio Wales and regular writer for Amateur Gardening magazine and Permaculture magazine. She teaches gardening and self-sufficiency skills and encourages hundreds of thousands of people across the globe to garden, through her YouTube channel, Liz Zorab – Byther Farm (over 127,000 subscribers). Based in Carmarthenshire, Liz runs a smallholding using organic and nature-led gardening practices. Books include Grounded (2021) and The Seasoned Gardener (2023).
July 15th – Joanne Hobbs – Summer Flower Arranging Workshop
Joanne is a member of our Cothi Gardeners club and a professional florist, who now owns ‘Bwlch Coed Flower Farm’, just outside Pumsaint village. Adopting regenerative practices, Joanne grows a variety of flowers which thrive in our Welsh climate, without the use of pesticides.
Members are asked to bring their own flowers, string etc to create a hand-tied bouquet under Joanne’s tutelage.
August – Summer Social –LLanllyr, Talsarn, SA48 8QB
Exact date and time to be agreed.
Large early C19 garden on site of Mediaeval nunnery, renovated and replanted since 1989. Discover the large pool and bog garden as well as a formal water garden. There are also rose and shrub borders, gravel gardens, and a beautiful rose arbour. Wander through the allegorical labyrinth and mount, all exhibiting fine plantsmanship. Year-round appeal, interesting and unusual plants.
September 16th – Talk on Fungi
Details to follow.
October 21st – Richard Bramley, Farmyard Nurseries
One of our most popular speakers, Richard Bramley last visited us two years ago for a very popular ‘Gardener’s Question Time’. Happily, he has agreed to talk to us again – but you tell us what you would like the topic of the talk to be!
November 18th – Screening – ‘The Winter Garden at St Timothee’
Third time lucky!! The club has had to cancel this screening in the two previous years because of adverse weather conditions. Fingers crossed for better luck this year!
December – Christmas Social
Date, time, venue TBA.
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