Happy New Year! Our new 2024 programme of talks and trips is slowly appearing on the website pages so do go and look to see what we have in store for you in the coming twelve months. You will be receiving your membership renewal forms soon as well and we look forward to seeing you all throughout 2024.

Our January meeting is on Thursday January 11th and will be held via Zoom with TSGCN – see their website for log-in details. The speaker is Sally Gregson from Somerset who will be talking about Hydrangeas. Sally Gregson ran Mill Cottage Plants nursery for over thirty years, having trained professionally at Hadlow College, Kent, and exhibited at the major flower shows, including Hampton Court Palace. Mill Cottage Plants specialised in Hydrangea and sold the more unusual, and more interesting, species and cultivars of hydrangea and their shade-loving companions. With her husband, Peter, she opens the garden by appointment under the NGS Yellow Book scheme. She has written several gardening books and continues to lecture throughout the UK and abroad, as well as writing for national gardening magazines.
We will be holding our AGM on February 8th at the Christ Church Centre as usual. The AGM starts at 7.00pm and will be followed at 7.30 by a talk from Jeff Bates on The Royal Windsor Gardens.