Many thanks to all our members and friends for your interest and support over the past 12 months. We have had an exceptionally busy year. We have tested out several completely new events – our Hanging Baskets Workshops and our Christmas Wreath Workshop, for example. They have been very successful and we plan to make…Continue Reading “Season’s Greetings!”
Colin Jones on “Round Britain Wiz” As a speaker aboard cruise ships Colin has been lucky enough to sail nine times around the British Isles. In this talk he will show some of his favourite ports of call from the Isles of Scilly in the south to the Faroes in the north. Being a garden…Continue Reading “Wednesday 22 November: free Talk”
Sheila Gijsen writes, I hope to give you a few ideas for plants which can fill that difficult shady area, but are also interesting and surprisingly colourful. A bonus is that none of the plants I mention need staking! I’ve lived in my ground floor 1970 ex council flat for thirty years. The garden is…Continue Reading “Shade gardening in a tiny garden”
We took part in a Community Day at West Norwood Cemetery on 24 September to celebrate the patterns and colours of the surroundings. The free event included opportunities to sculpt clay figures, literally carve your name in stone, take a sketching class, and create beautiful postcards using ink from plants. Lambeth Horticultural Society ran a…Continue Reading “Community Day, West Norwood Cemetery”
We’re taking part in Lambeth Heritage Month and the community event at West Norwood cemetery on Sunday 24 September. Our member Helena Kowalska will be running an activity throughout the event helping members of the public to create a stylish pot of bulbs for spring. All the materials are free. We’ll also be running a…Continue Reading “Free bulb planting activity 24 September”