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
- A foliage pot plant
- A dish of homemade compost
- Photo: In the garden on New Years Day
February
- A pot of flowering bulbs
- Cut stems of winter flowering shrub
- Photo; Winter brightness in the garden
March
- A miniature (petit) flower arrangement (max 20cm in any direction)
- 5 stems daffodils – at least 3 varieties
- Photo; Sculpture in Garden
April
- Cut stems of flowers grown from bulb, corm, rhizome
- A vase of white flowers
- Photo: My favourite garden seat
May
- 3 stems rhubarb
- A display of Hosta leaves
- photo: ‘Shades of Green’
June
- 5 stems roses
- A dish of soft fruit
- Photo ‘ Garden Abundance’
September
- A vase of cut grasses
- A collection of 3 different vegetables
- Photo: The Wild Garden’
October
- Ornamental fruit. Display open to interpretation
- A root vegetable
- Photo: Autumn Mist
November
- A flowering pot plant
- What’s that doing flowering now?
- Photo ‘I wouldn’t be without that in my garden’
Visits
- 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.