Village Show 2022

 

==VILLAGE GARDEN/CRAFT/ART/PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW AUGUST 2022==

With the virtual show firmly in the past, we are planning a summer Gardening/Craft/Art/Photography show at the village hall. The format of the show will be similar to the virtual show, although not on the same scale.

If you would like to be involved, and we do need volunteers please, then please let me know, be it a helper on the day or judging any categories.

The date we have in mind for the show is Saturday the 13th of August, and more information will follow shortly. So please start

growing, painting and creating your show entries.
Roy.James1536@gmail.com

31 March 22 Update

 Good evening everyone,

I hope you are all well and enjoying the warm weather, and looking forward to spending time in your gardens in the coming days ahead.

Our last gardening talk at the village hall is with Jake Rayson on the 6th of April at 7pm, the subject of the talk is Community Forest Gardens. 

Following on from this, here is a list of venues and dates for garden visits planned for the coming months.

I will update you nearer the dates, since I will need to know about numbers etc.

April 24th 2pm onwards Old Rectory Lampeter Velfrey 

https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/34289

May 13th & 11am onwards Aberglasney

https://aberglasney.org/

June 12th & 2pm onwards Norchard Manorbier Tenby. This is an NGS open day, so there's a limited number of tickets available. So please let me know if you're interested in attending, we've paid for 12 tickets (£6 each). 

https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/25634

July 16th & 2pm onwards Llwyngarreg

https://www.llwyngarreg.co.uk/

August 7th & 2pm onwards Glyn Bach

https://www.glynbachgardens.co.uk/

September 9th or 10th & 11am onwards Abergwili, although the date is to be confirmed. 

With most of the garden visits, there will be a walk and talk, but I will update you closer to the time. 

With the virtual show firmly in the past, we are planning a summer Gardening/Craft/Art/Photography show at the village hall. The format of the show will be similar to the virtual show, although not on the same scale.

If you would like to be involved, and we do need volunteers please, then please let me know, be it a helper on the day or judging any categories.

The date we have in mind for the show is Saturday the 13th of August, and more information will follow shortly. So please start growing, painting and creating your show entries.

We've someone who's looking for some paid help to create a garden and offer advice. So if you are interested, then please get back to me?

We are going to meet up for a plant sharing get together in mid May, venue and date to be announced later.

I hope you don't mind. But with busy times ahead, I think it sensible to defer forming a gardening club to a later date.

As a matter of interest, these are a few dates to be aware of:

Spring fair at Abergwili on the 10th of April, see link. 

https://parcyresgob.org.uk/new-spring-plant-fair-at-bishops-park/

Summer fair at Picton Castle on the 9th of July.

Finally, could you please let me know if  you're happy to continue with the annual maintenance of the community land?

Kind regards, 

Roy 

10 March 2022 update

Good afternoon everyone,

Thanks so much for coming along to our gardening group talk last night, and really appreciate your support.

In addition, It was so encouraging to see so many smiling faces back in the hall.

I'm hoping that you enjoyed yet another informative and entertaining talk by Paul and Liz O'Neill. Hard not to really!

Thanks to those who brought along old plant pots, which Paul & Liz appreciated and these will help with their charitable work.

The next talk, which is the last of our winter program, is with Jake Rayson on the 6th of April. I will update you nearer the time.

Thereafter, the plan is to visit various gardens throughout the summer months. 

However, I would appreciate your input as to what gardens you would like us to visit, and also what would be your preferred day to visit these places?

Personally I will be looking at the following gardens: Aberglasney, Llwyngarreg, Abergwili, Picton Castle, plus some of the gardens in the NGS flyer I sent in a previous email.

Also if there is a desire to have two garden visits per month, then please let me know. 

With regard to our finances. The £2/head entrance fee is covering the hall rental with a small surplus, so I can't see any reason to change this at the moment. 

Kind regards, 

Roy 

8 March 2022 Update

 Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you are all well and looking forward to getting on with your gardening, once the lighter evenings are with us again.

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner, but thanks so much for coming along to the talk with Piers Lunt last month. It was a very interesting talk, from yet another of the very talented head gardeners we have in the area. l'm sure we're looking forward to visiting the Tywi Gateway gardens later in the year. 

Our next talk is next Wednesday the 9th of March and at 7pm, and I expect like us you're looking forward to Paul and Liz O'Neill from Llwyngarreg and their talk entitled "Growing Acid Loving Plants".

Please see a message from Liz:-

If you have used plant pots you don't want, then can you please bring them along for Paul and Liz. They use them for plant sales, which goes to finance their garden at Llwyngarreg. Which in turn raises money for charities. Also there will be some plants on sale on the night. 

Please see a message from Adele:-

Joseph (Aberglasney) has given us a tray of Cleome ‘Rose Queen’ seedlings for our garden group. They are ready to be pricked out, so Adele will bring them to Wednesday’s meeting. So please bring along small containers. 

Many thanks to Joseph for this very kind gesture, and to Adele for making this happen.

Our talk on April the 6th is with Jake Rayson and is titled "Community Forest Gardens", although I will confirm this at a later date.

A list of garden visits will follow some time next month, but in the interim, see NGS list below.

As for Covid, the WAG restrictions have now been relaxed, although if you wish to wear a mask and socially distance, then please do so. Since whatever you are comfortable with, works for us all.

Kind regards,

Roy