Annie Godfrey’s talk entitled ”Some Like it Hot” will give advice on choosing plants for sunny, dry conditions.
Plants will be for sale from her nursery Daisy Roots often featured on the BBC coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show.
Please park in the free car park in East Lane as there are only 4 spaces for DISABILITY parking at the church.
Come and visit for a great selection of bedding, perennial and veg plants at very competitive prices …… a lot less than local garden centres!
Amongst the bedding plants this year we have geraniums, bedding dahlias, nemesias, cosmos, begonias, asters, osteospermum, brachyscome, zinnias and gazanias plus many others.
We will also be selling ’show’ dahlia plants, argyranthemums, rudbeckias, orlaya grandiflora, ammi and for the first time some ready planted hanging baskets. Plus lots, lots more!
Doors open at 10am and judging by previous years get there early to avoid disappointment!
CASH OR CHEQUE ONLY!
NEW VENUE NEW VENUE NEW VENUE NEW VENUE St Helen’s SCHOOL, Brewhouse Hill
Damien’s talk entitled ’Wonderful Wimpole Hall House and Gardens’ will tell the evolving story of the landscape which surrounds this historic Cambridgeshire National Trust property as well as the story of the mansion itself.
Everyone is welcome. Visitors £3.
Annual membership is just £10, please email whortsoc@gmail.com for full details
Zoom talk Wednesday 2nd February at 8pm. “Gardening to Save Time”
Our speaker this month is Ben Pope who is the Head Gardener at a private estate in West Sussex.
His role includes caring for a large walled kitchen garden, herbaceous borders, shrubberies, topiary, ornamental lawns, a floral meadow, water features, woodland and hedges. Ben’s team propagate, grow and store fruit, vegetables and cut flowers for the house, whilst maintaining the garden to a very high standard. …. and in his spare time, he looks after the onsite apiary.
So with all this he needs to know how to do it all efficiently and will give members tips on how to do the same in their own gardens.
Ben is also a lecturer at The Chelsea Physic Garden and at West Dean College.
This will be the last of our talks on Zoom for the foreseeable future as we will be returning to the Memorial Hall from March for our meetings 👏👏
If you would like to Zoom into this talk and enquire about joining, membership is jut £10 a year, please email whortsoc@gmail.com for full details.
Throughout 2021 the Society held monthly meetings on Zoom, held its annual Plant Sale and had a few social gatherings including a Summer picnic to celebrate its 50 years and a pre-Christmas afternoon tea.
We have been delighted with the support given by members gaining some new members along the way!
From March 2022 we will be back in our usual meeting place of the Wheathampstead Memorial Hall on the first Wednesday evening of the month at 8pm ….. hooray!
New members and visitors are very welcome. Annual membership is just £10 and visitor fee £3. Please email whortsoc@gmail.com for full details
Wheathampstead Horticultural Society has an enthusiastic membership of around 100 and is interested in all things horticultural.
The Society meets most months on the first Wednesday at 8pm in Wheathampstead Memorial Hall, Marford Road. We enjoy a variety of excellent talks, many by well-known garden designers, broadcasters and plantsmen and women.
We arrange visits to beautiful gardens, hold an annual plant sale in May and a Summer social. So there’s lots going on! Annual subscription is only £10.
Visitors to our meetings are always welcome, £3.
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The following are all old posts showing meetings and events which have been held in previous years
Wednesday 1st April, Memorial Hall 8pm Talk by Kathy Brown – A Way with Plants
Wednesday 6th May, Memorial Hall 8pm Talk by James Smallwood – Meticulous Auriculas
16th May, Mead Hall, Wheathampstead 10am – 12 noon Annual Plant Sale. Wonderful selection of bedding plants, perennials and vegetable plants at brilliant prices!
Wednesday 3rd June, Memorial Hall 8pm Talk by Timothy Walker – From Diaz to Diamonds. A botanical journey around South Africa’s Western Cape
Wednesday 2nd September Talk by Adam Pasco – Easy Ways to Better Gardening
Saturday 12th September, Memorial Hall 2pm Autumn Show. The opportunity for members to show off their horticultural skills
Wednesday 7th October, Memorial Hall 8pm Talk by Chelsea Gold winning designer Tom-Stuart Smith – Drawn from the Land
Wednesday 4th November, Memorial Hall 8pm Talk by Kerrie Lloyd-Dawson – Border Bulbs
Wednesday 2nd December, Memorial Hall 8pm Talk by Graham Spencer – New Plants. The Future for your Garden
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