Welcome to the Llanthony Valley and District Garden Club
The Club brings gardeners here together to share their experience of gardening in this difficult Black Mountains location - with its special problems of gardening at higher elevations and shorter growing seasons.
It runs a series of meeting in Cwmyoy Memorial Hall at 8.00pm on the second Monday of each month, between September and May. The meetings are chosen to cover a really wide range of subjects: everything from herbs to historic gardens; from pests to propagation; as well as having visits by well known garden celebrities.
Membership is £15 per person per annum.
Guests welcome, at £5 per event.
Hot news!
Roger & Jenny Lloyd's garden at Highfield Farm has been voted The Nation’s Favourite Garden in Wales and the Borders by readers of The English Garden Magazine. The full results are in the December edition of the magazine. Congratulations from all at Garden Club.
Events
Cwmyoy Memorial Hall NP7 7NF
8pm on the second Monday of every month
We have had three excellent talks so far this year from Alys Fowler, Sue Mabberley and Liz Knight. They were all talking on different aspects of making a garden which is productive, ecologically beneficial and attractive; about growing good things to eat and thinking wilder.
The next meeting is:
Monday 11th December
AGM and Members’ Evening
AGM at 7.30 followed by a quiz and a chance for members to share their experiences of the gardening, or garden-visiting, year over a glass of mulled wine and mince pie.
Monday 8th January 2024
Roger Lloyd: Hydrangeas, a Gentle Obsession
Hydrangeas fell out of fashion in the late 90s but are now right back in the mainstream. With the introduction of new species, we now have hydrangeas in a range of colours from white through green, pink, blue to the deepest purple and wine, flowering over six months and peaking at that difficult time of late summer into autumn. This talk covers how to grow, prune, propagate and colour manage hydrangeas and how to cut and dry the flowers. It introduces a personal selection from 12 species plus a few others and it includes where to see them at their best and where to buy them.
Monday 12th February
Alice Sidwell of Orchard Acre Community Supported Agriculture: From Kitchen Garden to Market Garden
"There are a multitude of ways one could respond to the many current global crises we face. Jonny and I felt a direction for our working lives emerging over the Covid lockdown of 2020. Spending so much time out in the kitchen garden focused our minds on food growing. We noticed the shift in public discourse as our current food system with its long supply chains showed its fragility."
Monday 11th March
Laura Willgoss of Wildgoose Nursery: Creating Beautiful Borders
Laura and Jack Wilgoss met at the RHS Garden Wisley as trainees back in 2006-2008. After working as gardeners on private estates they embarked upon their dream of setting up a specialist nursery growing all the plants they loved - herbaceous perennials and grasses and a large collection of perennial violas. In 2013 the couple took on a derelict walled garden in the Shropshire hills and have spent the past ten years creating a beautiful garden that in turn stocks the nursery with many treasured new introductions and established favourites.
Monday 8th April
Sarah Price: Reframing the Wild Garden: New Perspectives on Garden Making
Monday 13th May
Sioned Edwards: A floral demonstration using flowers and foliage from local gardens and hedgerows
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Come along to learn from the experts, meet other local gardeners, enjoy a cuppa and have a flutter on the monthly raffle.
We look forward to seeing you. You will be made most welcome!
It runs a series of meeting in Cwmyoy Memorial Hall at 8.00pm on the second Monday of each month, between September and May. The meetings are chosen to cover a really wide range of subjects: everything from herbs to historic gardens; from pests to propagation; as well as having visits by well known garden celebrities.
Membership is £15 per person per annum.
Guests welcome, at £5 per event.
Hot news!
Roger & Jenny Lloyd's garden at Highfield Farm has been voted The Nation’s Favourite Garden in Wales and the Borders by readers of The English Garden Magazine. The full results are in the December edition of the magazine. Congratulations from all at Garden Club.
Events
Cwmyoy Memorial Hall NP7 7NF
8pm on the second Monday of every month
We have had three excellent talks so far this year from Alys Fowler, Sue Mabberley and Liz Knight. They were all talking on different aspects of making a garden which is productive, ecologically beneficial and attractive; about growing good things to eat and thinking wilder.
The next meeting is:
Monday 11th December
AGM and Members’ Evening
AGM at 7.30 followed by a quiz and a chance for members to share their experiences of the gardening, or garden-visiting, year over a glass of mulled wine and mince pie.
Monday 8th January 2024
Roger Lloyd: Hydrangeas, a Gentle Obsession
Hydrangeas fell out of fashion in the late 90s but are now right back in the mainstream. With the introduction of new species, we now have hydrangeas in a range of colours from white through green, pink, blue to the deepest purple and wine, flowering over six months and peaking at that difficult time of late summer into autumn. This talk covers how to grow, prune, propagate and colour manage hydrangeas and how to cut and dry the flowers. It introduces a personal selection from 12 species plus a few others and it includes where to see them at their best and where to buy them.
Monday 12th February
Alice Sidwell of Orchard Acre Community Supported Agriculture: From Kitchen Garden to Market Garden
"There are a multitude of ways one could respond to the many current global crises we face. Jonny and I felt a direction for our working lives emerging over the Covid lockdown of 2020. Spending so much time out in the kitchen garden focused our minds on food growing. We noticed the shift in public discourse as our current food system with its long supply chains showed its fragility."
Monday 11th March
Laura Willgoss of Wildgoose Nursery: Creating Beautiful Borders
Laura and Jack Wilgoss met at the RHS Garden Wisley as trainees back in 2006-2008. After working as gardeners on private estates they embarked upon their dream of setting up a specialist nursery growing all the plants they loved - herbaceous perennials and grasses and a large collection of perennial violas. In 2013 the couple took on a derelict walled garden in the Shropshire hills and have spent the past ten years creating a beautiful garden that in turn stocks the nursery with many treasured new introductions and established favourites.
Monday 8th April
Sarah Price: Reframing the Wild Garden: New Perspectives on Garden Making
Monday 13th May
Sioned Edwards: A floral demonstration using flowers and foliage from local gardens and hedgerows
________________________
Come along to learn from the experts, meet other local gardeners, enjoy a cuppa and have a flutter on the monthly raffle.
We look forward to seeing you. You will be made most welcome!