April - June 2024 Newsletter 

Welcome to our Spring Newsletter, 

Hopefully the days are now becoming warmer and brighter and we can spend some time in our gardens preparing for the year ahead, we have such a busy schedule and i am sure there will be something for everyone at our monthly meetings, and our shows to look forward to.

May Meeting

Our annual plant sale will be Wednesday 1st May.  If you have any plants or cuttings you wish to donate, please can you identify the plant with a label, and bring along around 6.30pm so they can be displayed on the sale benches, there will be a seed swap, so if you have any spare seeds, please bring them along.  This will be a Q & A social evening where we can have a chat over our gardening challenges.ask for advice and exhange solutions to our gardening dilemmas. Tea and coffee are provided as usual and you can purchase a glass of good quality white or red wine at £3 glass.  We'll hear the entries from limerick competition 'Behind the potting shed door'.

June Meeting

Wednesday 5th June our speaker Marguerite Hughes will be presenting 'Location, location - right plant, right site'. The competition is 'A Vase of Roses'

Spring Show

Our Spring Show on Saturday 23rd March had lots of beautiful colourful entries, the hall looked stunning and the perfume from all of the flowers was devine. We had lots of new entrants which is so good to see people having a go and getting involved. The committe are always on hand to help if you are considering entering, our Summer Show is on Saturday 10th August, so please have a look at the schedule and consider the classes you could enter! 

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Gardeners' Question Time

We welcomed BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time earlier in April with a marvellous panel headed up by Kathy Klugston with Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank & Marcus Chilton Jones.  The evening was a great success and the first airing of the recording was Friday 19th April, the second episode will be 31st May, if you missed the first or you want to listen again you can find it on BBC Sounds. 

Trips 

We now have tickets available for Gardeners World Live at Birmingham NEC on Saturday 15th June, the cost is £37 and includes coach travel and entry into the show, the coach will depart from St Columbas Church at 8.30am and will leave the NEC to return at 4.30pm. 

Tickets are also available at the May meeting for the self-drive trip to Fieldcrest, a beautiful garden in Thornton Hough, Wirral on Saturday 3rd August at 2pm.  The cost is £7 which includes refreshments and entry to the garden.  The trip is exclusive to our members, but there is a limit of 25 tickets for this visit.

Talk by Chris Beardshaw

Looking ahead we have Chris Beardshaw coming to see us on October 2nd to present 'Painting with Plants'.  Tickets for the event are on sale at the May and June meetings for members only £10 and then  will be available for non-members at £20.  We want to give the members the opportunity to buy tickets first.

Your society needs you

We are very fortunate to have such an enthusiastic, hard working committee but we do need help in many ways. If you are able to come along earlier to help set up, sell raffle tickets, or tidy away after meetings or shows your help would be greatly appreciated.

We look forward to seeing you at our future meetings

Best Wishes

Nicki Priest

Secretary

Welcome to our Spring Newsletter, 

Hopefully the days are now becoming warmer and brighter and we can spend some time in our gardens preparing for the year ahead, we have such a busy schedule and i am sure there will be something for everyone at our monthly meetings, and our shows to look forward to.

Meetings   

Our meeting on Wednesday 6th March, we have Tracy Snell, Garden Manager of RHS Bridgewater telling us all about the making of the Royal Horticultural Society’s fifth public display garden. As a landscape architect, Tracy has brought her knowledge and skill into transforming this 154-acre estate, the largest gardening project undertaken in Europe. The competition for this month is ‘A pot of Spring Bulbs’.

There will be a seed swap at these meetings, so if you have any spare seeds, please bring them along. In preparation for our plant sale at our May meeting, if you are splitting any plants over the next few weeks, we would very much appreciate you potting up a cutting to bring along in May.

Spring Show

The Spring Show is on Saturday 23rd March with staging from 8am to 10:45am. Entries need to be received by Wednesday 20th March to Helen Gardiner or Susan Reading.  The schedule is available on our website. If you have not entered before, do have a go, there are stewards on hand to help with staging and any queries you may have. Last year we had several members entering exhibits for the first time, and they all said how much fun it was. Our judges are delighted and complimentary that we have our seasonal shows. The hall always looks fabulous when set out with all your beautiful exhibits.  

Gardeners Question Time

Tuesday 9th April - Ticket only event £4.50 (inc tea/coffe) Doors open 5pm - recording 6pm - 8pm (2 x 1 hour sessions) tickets are now almost sold out, please contact Laura Sams - T: 07912290517 / email: laurasams10@gmail.com - tickets are on a first come first served basis

Trips 

As yet the committee are deciding on trips for this year. The committee have discussed a possible visit to Gardeners World Live at Birmingham NEC in June, this would be dependant on cost and member interest.  Similar to last year we plan a trip to a more local garden and nursery within easy travelling distance. If you have any ideas about a garden trip, please see one of the committee, we are always pleased to hear your suggestions. 

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Memberships

Subscriptions are now due for 2024 - single £15, joint £25, please contact Pat - Pat Baxter, 25 Greenfield Lane, Chester CH2 2PA

email: pat.baxteruhs@gmail.com or call Pat on: 01244 294142

Your society needs you

We are fortunate to have such an enthusiastic, hard working committee but we do need help in many ways. If you are able to come along earlier to help set up, sell raffle tickets, or tidy away after meetings or shows your help would be greatly appreciated.

We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.

Best Wishes

Nicki Priest

Secretary

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