Garden Club
Welcomes both 'new shoots' and 'old perennials'! You don't have to be a whizz at gardening to enjoy our meetings, held in East Hagbourne Pavilion.
Hagbourne Garden Club holds regular monthly meetings from September to April on the fourth Thursday of the Month. We invite external speakers to cover a range of gardening topics.
Meetings are held at the East Hagbourne Pavilion, Great Mead, East Hagbourne. Doors are open from 7pm for homemade cake, tea and coffee before the talk at 7.30 pm.
There are two visits to interesting Gardens in the summer months.
A Plant Sale with hot drinks, a cake stall and raffle is held every May (25th May 2024 tbc). Everyone is welcome to come to buy plants and bring plants for sale.
We welcome new members and membership is £18 a year (£30 a couple). Meetings are open to everyone, free to members and £5 to visitors.
If you would like to join – please contact Sally Barksfield 01235 352275, or email sally.barksfield@gmail.com .
HAGBOURNE GARDEN CLUB SPEAKERS LIST SEPTEMBER 2024- APRIL 2025
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Description |
| Thu-Sep-26, 2024 | Russell Attwood | No Dig Gardening | ‘No dig’ isn’t ‘no effort’ but means much less watering & weeding, improved soil & high yields of fruit & vegetables – and it increases carbon storage, helping reduce climate change |
| Thu-Oct-24, 2024 | Colin Roberts | Salvias | Different varieties of Salvias & how to grow, care for & propagate them |
| Thu-Nov-28, 2024 | Steve Relton | Vegetables Every Day
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How to extend your vegetable production so you can eat something home grown all year round. |
| Thu-Jan-23, 2025 | Timothy Walker | The Subtle Art & Exact science of Pruning | Armed with the 10 principles given in this talk you will never fear pruning again. The various classes of pruning will be covered with many examples of trees & shrubs commonly found in gardens |
| Thu-Feb-27, 2025 | Andrew Mikolajski | Gardening in the 2020’s | Adapting to a changing climate and the movement away from the use of pesticides, fungicides and weed killers |
| Thu-Mar-27, 2025 | Rachel Siegfried of Green & Gorgeous | Growing perennials & woody plants for cutting | Recommendations and growing advice on the best perennials and woody plants (shrubs) for floral arrangements |
| Thu-Apr-24, 2025 | Stephen Head | Garden Ponds for Wildlife | Creating a garden pond, large or small, provides a wonderful place for wildlife to thrive and to increase biodiversity |
