Our Summer Show takes place this Saturday, have a look at your schedule, see what you’ve got growing in your garden / veg plot and get your entries in by 5pm on Wednesday . Those rooted cuttings, excess produce, and spare plants can be brought to the hall at 6:00pm on Friday or from 8:30am on Saturday morning, this time we are supporting Living Tree in their 10th year. Best wishes, and looking forward to seeing you suitably hatted, Margaret[…]
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Heat, Romance and Drama It started with an enthusiastic greeting of “Welcome, toilets are on the left” then it was out and onward into a pungent scent of rose. Heading directly for the Allotments: past picturesque shady and bordered lawn overlooked by a pavilion and the yew sentinels of the Model Gardens… Past the educational buildings to a gate in a dry-stone wall and where amateurs are taught the wonders of growing their own produce by the Rosemoor Edibles Team. […]
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This issue – the 18th – is mostly about biodiversity. Planting the right trees in the right places brings immediate benefits for nature. In the summer months – when we are not planting saplings – we can look around and see inspiring results on both a big and small scale. Click the following link to download the newsletter as a pdf: July 2022 Newsletter
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The Council waters all the planters but it is up to us, the Gardening Club, to keep all of them weed and rubbish free and to regularly dead head the plants. We actually have a planter of our own near the Spar in East St with thanks to Gemma’s Florists for supplying the Gazanias at cost. A small group, equipped with gloves and hand tools, meets on a Sunday and, in a comparatively short time, walks round town giving the[…]
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Bridport and District Gardening Club members have wonderful gardens which should be shared with other garden lovers. Send us pictures of the special places in your special garden. Stephen & Pam Tribe’s 2 acre garden in Colyford Photos by Ann Brown and Sue Day
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The Ladies of Hinton Ampner ‘Constable’ skies of bright blue and towering cloud hovered over the lush May foliage on our journey east to the National Trust Neo Georgian manor house with prospects far and wide across the rolling Hampshire countryside. Given a Victorian gothic update in 1865, with few facilities, in 1936 John Dutton, 8th Lord Sherborne, envisaged a return to its Georgian roots and again after WWII, redecoration was required which took fifteen years then followed by a[…]
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It was a perfect spring day on 25th April 2022 for travelling through Dorset to Dartmoor and Devon. Woodlands with fresh new leaves, and passing through small villages, farmland with lambs in the fields, then, finally arriving at the last castle to be built in England – Castle Drogo. It was built in 1910 for Julius Drewe on a remote Dartmoor hillside. The architect Edward Lutyens created an imaginative, romantic, and historic castle for the Drewe family. The Drewe descendants[…]
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The club’s first show since September 2019 was a great success with over 260 entries across the range of spring flowers, herbs, artworks, preserves and cakes. As our club President, Monique Pasche said “It is brilliant to be back and to see the fantastic work everyone has been doing in their gardens and kitchens.” Although it was late in the season, the six different classes of daffodils show-cased the diversity of the form, size, and colour in this flower which[…]
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