2024 Programme

Meetings held on 4th Wednesday of month, 7.30pm in St Matthias Church Hall, Church Rd, Malvern Link, WR14 1LX.  Membership £12.50 pa.  Visitors welcome, £2.  Competitions, raffle and free refreshments.

Meetings

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 26             The Kitchen Garden Today, speaker Roger Umpelby

July 24             Visit to Cotswold Garden Flowers at Badsey nr Evesham

August 17        Summer Show at Malvern Evangelical Church

Sept 25           Gardening for Wildlife, speaker Howard Drury

Oct 23             Harvest Supper and AGM

Nov 27             Ornamental Grasses, speaker Robin Pearce

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 tbc

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

2. July 24 (evening)

Cotswold Garden Flowers – Badsey nr, Evesham

3.Oct 12 (tbc)

Birmingham Botanical Gardens and (optional) Winterbourne.

There could also be an additional visit in April if there is sufficient interest.