Upcoming Events
VISIT & TALK
What, Where & When
of Sowing Vegetable Seeds
1.45pm, Wednesday 16 April 2025, Gwernyfed Walled Garden
Head Gardener, Joel Durrell will give a practical demonstration within the shelter of the historic Victorian glasshouse at Gwernyfed Walled Garden. The garden is run on a permaculture system.
Demo FREE. Tea & cake £6 (optional).
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​Gwernyfed Walled Garden, Three Cocks, LD3 0SG (opposite Old Railwayline Garden Centre)
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Re-framing Wild Gardens:
A New Perspective on Garden Making
TALK by renowned garden designer Sarah Price
Wednesday 7 May 2025, 7.30pm, Vowchurch Hall
We don’t have to choose between beauty, practicality and sustainability. Sarah Price will explain her current methods of making gardens that are low impact, innovative and rich in wildlife. Sarah has won three RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medals, co-designed the 2012 Olympic Park and has written for Gardens Illustrated.
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More information: https://www.sarahpricelandscapes.com
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Image ©Sarah Price
SALE
Plant Sale
Saturday 24 May 2025, 2-4pm, Vowchurch Hall
Come and browse plants grown by our members, followed by tea & cake. All profits go to fund future garden club events.
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VISIT
The Ledbury Flower Farmer
Wednesday 11 June 2025 Meet 1.45pm
Dunbridge Farm, Ledbury, HR8 2JE
Tour of artisan flower farm & demonstration of floral arrangements with owner, Rozanne Delamore. Flowers are grown in a sustainable way, at hand scale and without chemicals.
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£15 per person includes tea/coffee and cake
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More information: https://theledburyflowerfarmer.co.uk/
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TALK
Poetry, Prose and Peonies
Wednesday 2 July 2025, 7.30pm Vowchurch Hall
An illustrated talk by Peter Mathers on British gardens owned by well-known authors or other famous people who also wrote.
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Photo: Batemans © John Wattie
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TALK
Gardens of Japan
Wednesday 6 August 2025, 7.30pm, Vowchurch Hall
A photographic tour of some gardens visited last October in Japan by Club member, Marilyn Groves.
VISIT
Vowchurch Common Gardens, HR2 0RL
Wednesday 3 September 2025.
Meet 1.45pm Slate House, Vowchurch Common
Teas & additional parking at Bryn Farm
Slate House: owners Graeme Deas and Stuart Hedley take us on a tour of their garden which includes a well-stocked polytunnel, vegetable beds, fruit cage, grapes, peaches and orchards as well as flower borders.
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Finish at Bryn Farm (a 5-10 minute walk away), where Jane and Paul Rose will also serve tea & cake (FREE to members).
TALK
Delightful Dahlias
Wednesday 1 October 2025, 7.30pm, Vowchurch Hall
A kaleidoscopic slide show demonstrating how the various hybrids can be grown and combined with other late flowering perennials and grasses to extend the gardening season into late autumn. Speaker, Pip Smith, was formerly Head Gardener at Wollerton Old Hall and is now a garden designer.
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Bulbs, Corms and Tubers throughout the Year
Thursday 6 November 2025, 7.30pm, Vowchurch Hall
Starting with the striking Arum italicum ‘Marmoratum’ in November, Ingrid Millington of Hillview Hardy Plants will guide and advise us through a range of common and less familiar bulbs as well as exotics that give interest right through the year.
AGM and Christmas Party
Wednesday 10 December 2025, 7.30pm, Vowchurch Hall
Informal drinks and nibbles as we look back over the past year.