2024 Programme

Meetings are held on 4th Wednesday of month, 7.30pm

Meetings from August onwards will be held be at the Malvern Evangelical Church, 204-208 Pickersleigh Road, WR14 2QX.

Membership £12.50 pa.  Visitors welcome, £2.  Competitions and free refreshments.

Jan 24             Artists’ Gardens, speaker Bill Laws

Feb 28             Frondy Friends (Ferns), speaker Ross and Helen Barbour

March 27         Design for Small Garden Spaces, speaker Rachael Nitz-Majy

April 24            For the Love of Blue Poppies, speaker Marion Stainton

May 22             Magnolias, speaker Rowan Griffith

June 22 Garden Visit, Wild Goose Nursery

June 26             The Kitchen Garden Today, speaker Roger Umpelby

Wednesday July 24             Club garden visit, Cotswold Garden Flowers, Badsey, near Evesham

August 17        Summer Show at Malvern Evangelical Church: Results can be found Here: https://malvernhillsgardeningclub.com/category/monthly-newsletter/

Sept 25          Ornamental Grasses, speaker Robin Pearce

Saturday October 12th Visit to Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Cancelled.

Oct 14           Extraordinary Meeting by Zoom – minor change to constitution

Oct 23             Harvest Supper and AGM

Nov 27             Gardening for Wildlife, speaker Howard Drury (change of speaker)

Competitions 2024

January

  1. A foliage pot plant
  2. A dish of homemade compost
  3. Photo: In the garden on New Years Day

February

  1. A pot of flowering bulbs
  2. Cut stems of winter flowering shrub
  3. Photo; Winter brightness in the garden

March

  1. A miniature (petit) flower arrangement (max 20cm in any direction)
  2. 5 stems daffodils  – at least 3 varieties
  3. Photo; Sculpture in  Garden

April

  1. Cut stems of flowers grown from bulb, corm, rhizome
  2. A vase of white flowers
  3. Photo: My favourite garden seat

May

  1. 3 stems rhubarb
  2. A display of Hosta leaves
  3. photo: ‘Shades of Green’

June

  1. 5 stems roses
  2. A dish of soft fruit
  3. Photo ‘ Garden Abundance’

September

  1. A vase of cut grasses
  2. A collection of 3 different vegetables
  3. Photo: The Wild Garden’

October

  1. Ornamental fruit. Display open to interpretation
  2. A root vegetable
  3. Photo: Autumn Mist

November

  1. A flowering pot plant
  2. What’s that doing flowering now?
  3. Photo ‘I wouldn’t be without that in my garden’

Visits

  1. June 22

The Dingle (Welshpool) and Wildgoose nursery (Craven Arms)

2. July 24

Cotswold Garden Flowers – Badsey nr, Evesham