TUESDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2020

DUNCAN COOMBS

CLIMBERS AND WALL SHRUBS 

A passionate plantsman and plant hunter, Duncan Coombs is an advisor at the RHS Centre, Pershore College. Previously he was a lecturer at Pershore College. He is a gifted and entertaining speaker so we can expect an informative evening with new insights to world of climbing plants.

TUESDAY 7TH JANUARY 2020

TIM KAYE - THE LIFE OF A HEDGEROW

Tim has worked in outdoor education for over 20 years 

As well as being the Royal Forestry Society Herefordshire Education Officer he runs his own community interest company engaging people with the outdoors and works with the Field Studies Council. He has a degree in ecology.

TUESDAY 3RD DECEMBER 2019

CHRISTMAS MEAL AT THE CLIVE 
BROMFIELD

For details contact Jean Faulkner

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 2019

THE KITCHEN GARDEN TODAY

ROGER UMPELBY

We welcome back Roger who is a professional entomologist and horticulturalist with may years experience of consultancy and research with government and industry.

He is a part-time advisor to the RHS and occasional lecturer at Pershore College.

He is also a keen gardener and passionate plant and nature lover who enjoys sharing his love and respect for the natural world with anyone prepared to listen.

TUESDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2019

AN EVENING WITH REG MOULE

Reg invites us to ask him questions!

Reg Moule is a writer for consumer magazines and local newspapers. He is a sound broadcaster for national, local radio and a television broadcaster.  He also lectures.  He is Pershore trained and then managed a nursery/garden centre. He has many years’ experience as a lecturer and in BBC local and national radio including live phone-ins on Radio 2. Seven years as TV presenter on Gardeners’ Diary. GMG radio award winner.
see details here.

TUESDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2019

VISIT TO THE GARDEN OF CLAIRE AUSTIN AND HER PUBLIC HOUSE,

THE SARN, IN THE VILLAGE OF SARN NEAR NEWTOWN, POWYS.

PUBLIC HOUSE POST CODE SY16 4EJ

Arrive at the Pub for coffee 10.30 am

Arrive at the garden 11.15 am

Garden tour, Claire aims to be with us

Lunch back at the pub around 12.30 pm

Plant sales at the pub to finish

Probably arrive home mid afternoon

GARDEN ENTRANCE £5.00

Please send lunch choice plus a cheque for garden entrance and lunch price to Chris King, Pervin Cottage, Caynham, SY8 3BP by August 20th .

See menu here

TUESDAY 6TH AUGUST 2019

Adrian James – Bodenham Arboretum 

through the Seasons

I have been photographing gardens and plants on a freelance basis for many years.  I distribute my work through the specialist horticultural image library Garden World Images .  

With interests in garden history and in that rather esoteric topic of what gardens are actually for, combined with a strong sense of connection to these spaces, I also use my images in a range of garden talks which feature gardens from many parts the world and where possible using gardens that people may not know well.

I also have a passion for travel, often to places somewhat off the well beaten track and always with a camera in my hands, and I offer a number of travelogue style talks too.

Based in the picturesque village of Offenham near Evesham in Worcestershire, with my other hat on I am the under-gardener at Langdale Garden , which my wife Sheila & I open under the National Garden Scheme and to groups to raise money for national & local charities and good causes.

see Adrians web site here

The Creator of Bodenham Arboretum David Binnian said -

We began the project in 1973 when my wife, Jennifer, and I bought the land with a vision which has taken over 30 years to realise. It started as my hobby, just planting a few trees each winter, until it developed into what it is today. It’s now run as a family venture, with the second generation of Binnians fully involved in its planning, development and day-to-day management, and the third generation hovering in the wings. When Bodenham received conditional English Heritage status in 1995 we realised that this was a major opportunity for the Arboretum to be enjoyed by the public and for it to remain in the family.

When we first bought the property it comprised 127 acres of woodland and rough pasture grazed by sheep. Our family had lived half a mile away for the previous sixteen years and saw it sold twice before we took the opportunity to buy it ourselves, because of its potential for conversion to an arboretum, combined with a working farm. Ever since I was a small boy I had been keen on planting and landscaping and was motivated, I think, by my parents who had a beautiful home and a large garden with fine specimen trees. Although I read forestry at College much of my knowledge has been acquired quietly, over the years.

See web site here