Newsletter 25th September 2023
Good evening, Welcome back to our gardening club and to our ‘New’ Year. We have some very interesting speakers coming in the months ahead who will take us through a good variety of gardening subjects. And of course we will also have our annual day trip out and perhaps a private visit or two.
To start off our new year we have Alice Taylor who has come from Delamere Flower Farm, the farm is based in Norley on the edge Delamere Forest, they only have half an acre of south facing land where a huge variety of beautiful flowers are cultivated. One very important factor at the farm is that they care for the land and the environment growing everything ethically and organically.
It’s hard to believe Summer has come to an end already Autumn gradually opening it’s door it can be a stunningly beautiful time of year but with still plenty needing done in the garden so if you are going to be splitting any plants don’t forget to bring your cuttings along to pass on to other members, it’s a grand way to pass on plants and to share the beauty amongst our gardens with each other.
Do you have extra plant pots you no longer need, or a piece of gardening equipment that’s taking up space in your shed? Any seed packets not used this year but still viable for 2024? Well bring them along, everything is so expensive these days, it’s always good to share ideas so don’t forget there is a multitude of containers we can use when sowing seeds, all sorts of containers, yogurt pots, even tin cans and heavy-duty plastic bags! So saving containers like that also saves us money – for other plants.
As soon as plans are made for our years’ programme we need to start on the following years’ programme. We are presently at the point of planning 2024-25. On our list of possibilities are Dorothy Clive Garden, Cholmondeley Castle Gardens, and Manley Knoll. We do ask you each year where you would like to go to visit and who or what you would be interested to have at a meeting, Alas, it appears you are all too shy to tell us. However, please, anytime you can think of someone or somewhere that could be of interest to the club, please, tell any of the committee. It’s your club and we would love to please you.
The Community gardens being tended by some of the committee are looking much tidier now. The border under the bridge by Hales is looking so much neater and brighter. The planters at the library have been wonderful all summer, unfortunately they are used too frequently as rubbish bins for wine bottles and vapes!
William Woods from Blackbrook Herb Gardens in Wilmslow is our speaker for October. His talk is titled The Uses, Propagation and Growing of Herbs. Blackbrook Herbs is a small specialist nursery growing a range of about 150 culinary, medicinal and historic herb plants and wildflowers.
Our visit to Bridgewater last Monday was… shall we say… a little wet? Oh yes! Very wet! But it really didn’t dampen our spirits one little bit, yes everything was a little bedraggled but it was still exciting to see how everything had grown and filled out. It was quite amazing and we all enjoyed our day out.
The Committee for the club meets one week before the actual meeting, it’s a nice little chat with a cup of tea or coffee, we suggest this, or that, iron out that problem and decide on others, If you would like to just sit and listen, you don’t need to join in if you don’t want to, but do come along, enjoy a cuppa with us at 11.am in the main reception Holiday Inn, Wood Lane, Runcorn.
Enjoy your evening. Maureen Coxon, Newsletter & Advertising