Advice: Free advice from local experts. Volunteers are on hand to try to anwer your gardening queries, from houseplants to allotments. From right plant right place to creating a new garden, improving yield and wildlife-friendly horticultural practices. Shop: Our shop has a huge range of garden and horticultural supplies, bedding plants in the Spring and bulbs in…Continue Reading “Hut Open”
FORGING CONNECTIONS, HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT Wednesday 23 July 8pm The Old Library Speaker: Sue Williams Join us for our August talk where Sue will chart her involvement in gardening as a way of bringing very different communities together. Sue says, “I didn’t have a conventional horticultural training. But 30 years ago, I bought a house with…Continue Reading “WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST: FREE TALK GARDENING IN COMMUNITIES”
The Schedule for our annual Late Summer Show is now available. It’s open to all. The full list of classes is Vegetable, Fruit, Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, General Flowers, Pelargonium & Geranium, Houseplant & Cactus, Floral Art, Domestic, Handicraft, Photographic, Children’s – and Oddest Vegetable (by public vote). Take part! Enter to win cash prizes and a…Continue Reading “Late Summer Show September 6”
For those interested in working behind the counter, we will run regular half hour training sessions on working the till and SumUp. It would be really helpful to have a team of people on standby for when our regular volunteers are on holiday, or at another event. The first training session will be 12.30 –…Continue Reading “Till Training Sunday 24 August”
Summary The annual survey ran throughout June 2025. Following poor take up of the print version in 2024, this year it was online only. We received 66 responses (63 in 2024). We are very grateful to everyone who took part, and especially those who took the time to critique the organisation and its activities. Many…Continue Reading “LHS Annual Survey 2025 – results”