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clematis   alliums
Golden Acre, Leeds, June 2010 - clematis and alliums   photos by Graham Baldry
                                               

Gardening Greenfingers 

Spring/summer programme 2010

Date

Venue

Time

Event

Tues 12 Jan Abbey pub 2.00pm Talk with slides - Interesting and Historic Gardens - Keith and Shirley Thomas
Tues 9 Feb Abbey pub 2.00pm Talk with slides - The Changing Face of the English Countryside - Catherine McKay
Tues 9 Mar Abbey pub 2.00pm

RSPB talk - Garden and Woodland Birds,  Feeding Garden Birds - Helen Ensor.  Raffle prize donated.

Tues 13 April

Meet at Abbey pub   Visit to Winthrop Park, near Rotherham (talk given in November 09).  Public transport.  Guided tour.  Details later.
Tues 11 May Meet at Abbey pub 9.30am Visit to Rufford Abbey Country Park by minibus.  Details of cost later. We hope the bluebells will be out.
Tues 8 June Meet at Abbey pub 9.30am Visit to Golden Acre Park, Leeds, by minibus. Guided tour.  Cost details later.

Tues 13 July

Meet at Abbey pub 11.00am Visit to NGS (Yellow Book) garden,  "Birchfield", Ashford in the Water.  By public transport or car (parking in the village).  Admission £3.00 per person.
August     No meeting
Tues 14 Sept Abbey pub 2.00pm Planning and discussion meeting.  Slides of gardens members have visited.   Annual subscriptions due.
Tues12 Oct Abbey pub 2.00pm Talk with pictures of the Peak District by a member of Friends of the Peak. Name of speaker to be confirmed.
Tues 9 Nov Abbey pub 2.00pm Talk with slides by Mrs Littlewood on her garden at Fearnleigh (which we have visited in the past).  How it all started and progress since.

Tues 14 Dec?

   

Christmas meal

Visit to Golden Acre park, Leeds, June 2010    
 
   Golden Acre - irises   Primulas
golden acre   iris sibirica
It rained all day, but gardeners don't care!   Iris sibirica
greenhouse  
The future for gardening in Yorkshire - dry gardens?  Not today!   Azaleas
     
 

Not a lot to see in the demonstration gardens as the head gardener and his team had been spending the last few weeks at Chelsea - and came away with a Gold Medal!  It should be better in a few weeks' time when they have had time to put out all the bedding and vegetables.

Rhododendrons and azaleas    
     
    photos by Graham Baldry
Visit to Rufford Park, May 2010    
     
 
Ruined buildings at Rufford Park   The formal gardens
Rufford Park  
This building, which was previously a swimming pool, now holds an art exhibition   The grounds and a splendid tree seen from the ruined abbey
    photos by Marilyn Costello

 

 

 

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