Good morning everyone,
Many thanks for all your support at last Wednesday's meeting, and from our meeting we now have eighteen paid up members, which is very encouraging.
If anyone wishes to join, then please contact Dawn or Pauline, the annual membership is £10, and there is a £2 charge (raffle) for each meeting attended which covers the cost of hall hire. The membership fee covers the costs of the guest speakers.
If you no longer want to be contacted by email or don't wish to be a Gardening Group member, then please contact me.
The meeting commenced with feedback on the Kilgetty in Bloom judging by Dawn & Pauline, which we fully appreciate the effort required to carry out this work, both professionally and with impartiality.
It was lovely to see all the different types of gardens entered and the variety of classes and use of limited gardening space, along with the use of various materials and objects.
Its not easy to giving feedback to an audience, but you did it, and more importantly we enjoyed it. well done to you both.
Future Garden Visits
Possible garden visits from May on wards and with a walk & talk sessions include the following gardens, dates, times, cost to follow:
Upton Castle
Picton Castle
Llwyngarreg
Botanical Garden
Abergwili {Bishops Palace} .
Aberglasney
Stackpole walled Garden
Open Gardens - National Garden Scheme.
If you've any further places to visits and or preferences, then please let me know by email.
Gardening Talks at Village Hall {Wednesday 7:30pm}
Steve Whitehead {Head Gardener Colby} December 11th, subject; History and Development of Colby Estate.
Paul and Liz Oneill {Owners Llwyngarreg}, January 29th, subject; The Last Cow.
Piers Lunt {Abergwili Bishops Palace}, February 26th, subject; Tywi project.
Joseph Aitkin {Head Gardener Aberglasney}, March 11th, subject; To Be Agreed.
Huw Richards {HuwsNursery on YouTube}, April 8th, subject; My Journey, Method of Growing and the RHS. Huw will have two books on sale at this meeting.
Any Other Business
Paul Webb is willing to provide some practical training with regard to making Christmas wreaths and door decorations, if you are interested, then please email me. I'm thinking about November and either at the Village Hall or at Tavernspite Garden Centre.
Dee has offered to give us a talk on Bees as Pollinators, date to discuss at a later date, suggest the month of May.
Dee & Pauline have offered to give us practical training with regard to making Christmas decorations using garden greenery materials, date and time to agree.
Marie from Greenacre is able to provide practical training with regard to pruning fruit trees. if you are interested in having this training, then can you please email me, it would be on a Saturday morning. The cost to us would be £25 for up to two hours and over two hours £45.
Pembrokeshire Beekeepers Association meeting on the 27th of October at 2pm to 4pm at the Georges 24 Market Street Haverfordwest.
Colby Winter Fair 16th and 17th of November.
Picton Castle Winter Fair 23rd and 24th of November Victorian Christmas Fair.
Aberglasney Winter Fair 29th of November and 1st of December, see web site for further information. http://
Narberth Big Plant Sale 2nd May 2020.
Fund Raising Quiz for Wildlife and Gardening Group, Dee will arrange for a Monday evening in January at the Temple Bar.
Ted Talks which is about Plant Science (how plants communicate with pollinators etc), see links below.
Miscellaneous
Recycling demonstration by PCC at the village hall on Friday the 25th of October.
Sylvia mentioned Paul has some Clematis plants available and at a reasonable price at Tavernspite Garden Centre,
St Clears Gardening Club guest speaker on the 11th of November is Sheena Crossley (Gardening made Easier), charge is £2 per person, anyone whose interested then get in touch please.
Date if Next Meeting
To be circulated later.
Kind regards
