Thursday, January 30, 2020

30th January 2020 Update

Good afternoon everyone,
Thanks to you all for supporting both the Quiz night on Monday evening at Temple Bar and the "Last Cow" talk by Paul and Liz Oneill from Llwyngarreg (http://www.llwyngarreg.co.uk/) at the Village Hall.

The Quiz night was most enjoyable and again Dee has done us proud, well done Dee, also thanks to you all, we now have a further £50 in the Gardening Group funds, which is very much appreciated.

As for the "Last Cow" talk with Paul and Liz, this was enjoyed by us all and well worth asking for the next talk (Plants I have Killed) later in the year, although in the interim and after seeing the Rhododendrons pictures, we obviously need to visit Llwyngarreg in May.
With this in mind. Can you give me an idea of the best {May} date and time please, Paul and Liz are alright with an evening visit (by arrangement) and I will ask them what dates best suit them and get back to you.

Our next GG talk is on the 26th of February at LVH starting at 7:30pm when Piers Lunt (Abergwili Bishops Palace) will give us a talk on the Tywi Gateway Project (https://tywigateway.org.uk/). "The project aims to work with the local community to restore the Bishop’s Park to its former grandeur and to set in place a management structure to ensure the park remains at the heart of the community with a long and exciting future ahead of it". We had a walk around the walled garden last winter, and I'm looking forward to seeing the progress when we visit later in the year!

Will get back to you with dates and times for garden visits, but at the moment I'm looking at:
Aberglasney
Abergwili Bishops Palace
Colby Lodge
Picton Castle.
Upton Castle
Llwyngarreg
National Botanic Garden
Plus a few of the gardens Paul mentioned, must admit I didn't take notes!

Although, how we fit these all in will be interesting, maybe its two visits a month.

Kind regards,

Roy

Saturday, January 25, 2020

25th Jan 2020 Update

Good Morning everyone,
Just to remind you all that we have a joint fund raising Quiz with Tair Nant Wildlife Group at the Temple Bar Amroth on the 27th of January commencing at 8pm, please make your own arrangements when it comes to food by looking on Temple Bar Facebook, allowing time to order and eat your meal before the quiz begins at 8pm.

Also on the 29th of January and at 7:30pm we have Paul and Liz O'Neill providing us with a talk {Last Cow} about their beautiful garden at Llwyngarreg http://www.llwyngarreg.co.uk/, loads of ideas here. Paul & Liz will be bringing along some plants for sale.
Please can you support this meeting if at all possible.
Don't forget its just a £2 entrance per person and you don't need to be a gardening group member, so please encourage others to come along if you can.
 
Next months GC talk is on the 26th of February when Piers Lunt will be giving us a talk on the Abergwili Bishops Palace Tywi Gateway Project 

As far as visits to: Aberglasney, Abergwili, Colby Lodge, Picton Castle, Upton Castle, plus National open Gardens like Llwyngarreg, can you give me an idea of what day of the week and time would best suit you please. Since I appreciate it may not be convenient during the week for some?

Finally, below are programs for gardening clubs that weve attended last year, if your interested in a particular talk or visit, then please get in touch with me and we can car share, the charge is £2 per person for the talks, sorry don't have a price for the trips.

St Clears and Llangynin Gardening Clubs

As promised the St Clears GC  programme, if any of you would like to join us on the summer days out  let me know, the Newcastle Emlyn one will be by coach , as  you can see trips are joint with Llangynin organising 2 per club, the stackpole one will be in cars, and the September trip we are hoping to do by coach is to Sir Roy Strong's  Laskett's Garden and  Symonds Yat.

Monday January 13th   The Woodland Trust 
Monday February 10th  The Dreaded Gardener
Monday March 9th Linda Screen  Garden Design
Monday  April   6th Huw Richards   Open Meeting
Wednesday May 20th Trip  to Roger Spencer’s Nursery and the Flower Meadow  near Newcastle Emlyn  trip joint with Llangynin
Tuesday June 9th   trip to Stackpole Court and Bosherston Lily ponds  joint with Llangynin
Monday June  22nd  Annual Four Day Trip to  Anglesey
Monday  July 13th Huw Davies  Antique Artefacts
Tuesday July 14th Joint trip with Llangynin  - Taf Valleys  tri p with  afternoon tea. Book with Taf Valley Coaches 
Wednesday August 5th  Pwll Trap Garden Crawl
Saturday  August  15th Annual Club Show.
September joint trip with Llangynin to be arranged
Monday September 14th Alice Pyper “ Pembrey Munitions Factory
Monday October  12th  AGM and social evening
Friday  October 23rd Annual Dinner venue to be decided                             
Monday November  9th Paul O’Neill  “Plants I’ve Killed”
Monday December 14th Joseph Atkin Trees and Shrubs, plus Cheese and Wine and the big raffle.

Bronwydd Gardening Club
February 18th    -            Julian Wormald - Confessions of a Galanthophile
March  17th       -             Bob Dyer – Woodland plants
April 21st           -             Gareth Davies - A love affair with Roses
May 19th           -             Mark Ashton Dahlias and Gladioli (Open evening)
June 16th           -            Matt Granfield - Vegetable Growing     
July 21st            -             Vicki Weston – (Big Sky Plants) Penstemons and Salvias
August 22nd        -           Gardening Club Show
September 15th    -           Richard Bramley - Sarracenias   
October 20th    -               Sheena Crossley – Making maximum use of small gardens





Kind Regards,