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This gallery is split over several pages. Each page displays pictures from a particular year or years as taken by members whilst visitng gardens. The most recent are at the top of the page. The links below can be used to select the relevant year.

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2021

Botcheston Village Hall - December 2021

The Group enjoying their December Take and Share lunch plus presentation of next year's draft Programme.

Members seated around tables indoors with teir lunches.

 

Dower House, Melbourne - September 2021

Members seated around table indoors with tea and cakes.

Members standing around the guide

Weeping tree infront of flower border

Stone steps with pink and white roses to the side.

Memebrs moving along path between flower borders with lake behind

A stand of various yellow flowers

Flower border with house in background.

A border of bright flowers with low hedge bordering path

Long border of pastel shades with stone wall and trees behind

Members looking at plants in long border.

Close-up of small purple flower

White phlox in foreground of view through trees to lake beyond

Wrought irron gates at entrance to Dower house.

 

BBQ and Plant Swap - August 2021

Male tending 2 barbecues with 5 other members seated.

A group of members seated in a cirlce

5 members seated at a table with hedges behind

2020

Dower House, Melbourne - March 2020

The owner standing on a low wall addressing the members

A group of yellow daffodils, with members in background

Trees in foreground and lake behind

Members inspecting a long border with a high stone wall behind

A group of white daffodils with yellow trumpets

Buds about to break on a Magnolia set against a blue sky

Hyacinths of blue, light and dark pink, and pale yellow

2019

Smisby Arboretum - Octobert 2019

A palm looking rather like a tree fern with  a spaly of leaves
Trachycarpus fortunei (Chusan or Windmill Palm) - very hardy tree native to western China - one member grew up with one of these in their Cardiff garden

A very slender tree with dark green foliage staying close to main trunk
Liquidambar styraciflua Slender Silhouette (Sweet Gum Tree) - from north America

Guide explaining to the members
The guide was very knowledgeable

A relatively compact acer with striking deep pink leaves
There were many firey colours such as Euonymous alatus Little Moses

A show of deep golden leaves
Acer tegmentosum (Amur Maple) native to Manchuria and North Korea

A group of young acers in crimson, yellow and maroon
An array of acers

A splay of stems with grey-green bark with vertical white bands
Acer tegmentosum (Amur Maple) has amazing snake like bark

 

Jackie Manship's Garden - August 2019

Members near veg beds and  begonias

Statue between hedges

Members walking arounf ornamental lake

heges and baskets of begonias

A samll pool water feature

Lawn and borders in upper garden

large fish in pond

Members relaxing with a drink on the terrace

Composite picture with close-ups of blooms

 

Woodend Cottage, Repton - July 2019

Members admiring a border

Memebrs almost hidden amongst a mixture of tall plants

Red-hot pokers

Loganberries

Pool with memebrs relaxing in background

Day lilies

 

Coton Manor - April 2019

 

Dumbleside - March 2019

2018

Leicester University Botanic Garden - October 2018

Lovely autumn colour (& excellent cake!)

 

Green Wicket Farm - September 2018

 

BBQ and Plant Swap - August 2018

 

Grafton Cottage, Barton-under-Needwood - July 2018

 

John's Garden - May 2018

 

Our Group Leader goes the exra mile (well about 1000 actually) to try and get a suitable speaker.

 

Chevin Brae - March 2018
Enjoying the garden (and the excellent pies provided by the owner!)

 

Felley Priory - February 2018

2017

Calke Abby Gardens - September 2017

 

BBQ and Plant swap - August 2017

 

Kelmarsh Hall - July 2017

 

Cascades Garden in Bonsall - May 2017

 

Member's garden - April 2017

 

Hopton Hall - Feb 2017

2016

April 2016 - Long Close

 

February 2016 - Hodsock Priory

 

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