9th February 2026 at 8pm
Justine Gallaccio & Stephen Anderton on HOW TO MAKE YOUR GARDEN EASIER TO CARE FOR
These experienced gardeners are well known to Garden Club members. Justine is an extremely knowledgeable plantswoman who has worked in great gardens all over the country. Stephen has restored historic gardens and is an author, garden journalist and lecturer. This talk is for people whose gardens are becoming too big, too complicated or too much work.
It will look at labour-saving plants and planting, and ways of managing your garden and focusing your efforts to produce something simpler yet still attractive.
Recent Meetings
Helen Picton on “Why Wait for Spring?”
Monday 12th January at 8pm
8th December
AGM and very enjoyable Christmas Members’ Evening with a brilliant horticulturally themed quiz organised by Jacky & Ian Mills.
Our November meeting was an excellent talk by the internationally important garden designer Arne Maynard about the process of designing and landscaping the garden around his beautiful medieval tower house near Usk.
The October talk by Paul Green of Greens Leaves Nursery in Newent was fascinating. With no Powerpoint or pictures to support him, he picked up plants, all new cultivars, from a huge selection he had brought with him, showed them to us and talked in detail about their virtues.
His theme was taken from the Radio 4 programme “The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?” The nursery trade sees the production and development of new plant varieties and cultivars as vital but it is valid to ask whether some of these new plants coming through are better than the forms we are used to. We looked for example at new burberis which have different forms and attractive leaf colours, some very thorny and others less so. All useful in specific places. Of course the answer is that there are virtues in both the old and the new.
It was really helpful to have a look at what’s out there and many people took the opportunity to buy some lovely plants.
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