As the gardening season slows, gardeners prepare their gardens for winter, ready to relax and enjoy any Christmas and New Year celebrations. What have you been doing to prepare your garden for winter? Do you have any pictures or a story to share from your garden this year?Please email them to me, and I will …
June Highlights: Members’ Visit to Pear Tree Cottage
Members enjoyed our June visit to Pear Tree Cottage.It’s such a lovely garden in a beautiful location and the owners were very welcoming. Leonie.
Visit to Colesbourne Gardens.
Despite the rubbish weather, the majority of us braved the wet and cold. It was a good trip out, members enjoyed just getting out into the fresh air for the afternoon and the snowdrops were a delight, as was Lord Elwes who greeted us in person! Mary Gleaves. Our next meeting is The Honey Bee …
Preserving Harvests: Kevin’s Guide to Year-Round Food
Kevin gave us a very entertaining and informative talk on preserving the harvest from our gardens using his experience to produce and provide food all year from his five acres for his family of five. Many of his slides showed his children enthusiastically getting involved in the different processes. Besides jam and chutney this also …
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Celebrating Volunteers at the Malvern Autumn Show.
Nineteen members of the Black Pear Gardening Club volunteered to man the plant creche at the Malvern Autumn Show. Here are a few pictures from the day. Straw was laid on the paths due to the wet conditions. Volunteering can have an effect! A big thank you to all those who volunteered, especially Leonie who …
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Bishop Palace Gardens Trip: August Highlights.
Forty Severn members joined a coach trip to the Bishop Palace Gardens at Wells in Somerset. Here are some of their pictures from that day. © Phillip Lee. Memorable view of the Cathedral from the bishop’s palace garden. © Phillip Lee. © Leonie Creighton. © Mary Gleaves. © Mary Gleaves. The next four pictures are …
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John Brookes MBE and the Blue Border in Our Garden@19.
Brian Skeys Garden visiting, Our Garden@19, The Life of Brian. February 12, 2024 3 Minutes John Brookes MBE has designed and built well over 1000 gardens, here and overseas, during a career spanning 50 years. Based at Denmans, his acclaimed world-famous garden in West Sussex, he is best known for his ability to create gardens that relate to their environment, …
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BLACK PEAR GARDENING CLUB CHRISTMAS LUNCH 2023.
Worcester Golf and Country Club,Boughton Park,Worcester. Saturday the 2nd of December 2023 Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to all Members of the Black Pear Gardening Club.
Pam and Rods new garden.
Club members Pam and Rod Pardoe have recently downsized to a new build, they have shared their pictures of the developing new garden with us. Pam wrote, "We moved in on 23rd February then the first raised bed was made about mid April so the soil which came out from the foundation for the summer …
Plant Creche at the Autumn Show.
Members from the club, led by Leonie volunteered to man the Plant Creche at the Autumn Show on Friday. The Three Counties donate money to the club for this so a big thank you to Leonie and her team. From Leonie, We had a really good day despite the weather.339 tickets were used with a …
From Chrysanthemum to Narcissus.
By Mary Gleaves. I think garden club members were keen to get back to monthly meetings at Powick Parish Hall, and they were not disappointed! From Chrysanthemum 'Goldengreenheart' to Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Julie Ritchie from Hoo House Nursery presented a beautifully illustrated and knowlegable talk on how to keep our flower borders interesting and active during the …
Bridgewater.
Our coach trip to RHS Bridgewater was the last of our garden visits this summer. Set the grounds of what was Worsley New Hall, Worsley, Salford the RHS are in the still early stages of developing a beautiful, informative and diverse site for old (!) and new gardeners alike. The planting of the newly established …
Gardener’s Question Time.
From Mary Gleaves. Hi Brian Following advice from Gardeners Question Time, we have a beautiful cauliflower! It was grown in a raised bed in a mix of homemade compost, bought multi purpose compost and soil conditioner and fed with a mulch of chicken manure pellets and alfalfa. It will be eaten with a cheese sauce! …
July Garden Visit.
Our July garden visit saw an enthusiastic group dodge the showers to visit the C19th city walled garden of William and Julia Scott. They have managed the garden here organically since 1995 with an emphasis on herbs and their many uses. During our visit, the bees were enjoying the many flowering herbs and perennials. Within …
March Meeting.
Philip Aubury sharing his Labour Saving tips during his talk on Labour Saving Gardening Fact, Myth and Legend.
Garden Club Talk, 4th March 2023
We thought we had our March talk all arranged- but no, unfortunately our planned talk by Roger Umpleby had to be cancelled at the last minute due to ill health, by a very apologetic Roger.Fortunately, local speaker, lecturer and all round good horticulturist , Duncan Coombs stepped in with a few hours notice and saved …
Tales From The Potting Shed by Nicola Hope. January 21st.
On Saturday 35 members enjoyed one of the most inspiring talks we have received at the club. Nicola shared her experiences and knowledge with interesting and occasional insights, sometimes humorous during her time working in some very famous estate gardens.She told us of her early experience as an assistant gardener at Highgrove for the then, …
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17TH SEPT 2022 BY MARY GLEAVES
‘The Garden at Stockton Bury‘ On September 17th members made a very welcome return to our indoor meetings at Powick Parish Hall. Our speaker on this occasion was Tamsin Westhorpe, a ‘hands-on gardener’ at her family garden, Stockton Bury in Herefordshire. Tamsin started her horticultural career as a greenkeeper, and amongst many other roles, writes for …
Garden Visit.
Our July garden visit was to the Tynings Church Lane, Stoulton. The garden looked wonderful on a gorgeous sunny day with shady areas to sit in to enjoy the relaxing surroundings. An acclaimed plantsman’s 1⁄2 acre garden, generously planted with a large selection of rare trees and shrubs. Features inc a specialist collection of lilies, many unusual …
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