Visitors and guests are welcome to attend meetings which are usually held on the second Thursday of the month at 7.45 prompt at Christ Church Centre, Christchurch Way, Stone ST15 8ZB
Admission £1.50 including refreshments.
2019 Programme of Monthly Meetings
12th December – this meeting is an afternoon one, starting at 2.30pm
Danny Wells – The Art of the Christmas Card (Plus Afternoon Cream Tea)
Please make sure you have bought your ticket beforehand. A limited few may be available on the day.
2020 Programme of Monthly Meetings
9th January
7.30pm AGM (Members Only)
7.45pm – David Wilkinson – My Favourite Staffordshire Places
David Wilkinson was Stafford Borough Council Archaeologist until retirement. His talk is a personal choice of some twenty favourite places.
13th Feb
Anthony Tavenor – The discovery of Plas Cadnant hidden garden.
Plas Cadnant is an historic garden under restoration, situated between Menai Bridge and Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey. Anthony Tavenor, the current owner, bought the 200 acre estate in 1996 and started the restoration.
12th March
Colin Parkes – Gladioli.
Colin Parkes is the Vice-Chairman of the National Gladiolus Society.
9th April
Heather Godard – Pelargoniums
Heather Godard is from Fibrex Nursery, a family business set up some 50 years ago by Hazel and Dick Key and situated at Petworth. They specialise in Pelargoniums and Hedera (ivies), holding National Collections of both groups.
14th May
Peter Gardener – The Glory of Gardens.
Peter Gardener, the National Garden Scheme County Organiser for Derbyshire, looks at some of the NGS gardens open in this county.
11th June
Byron Machin – The Red Data List.
Byron Machin gives us a tour of some of Britain’s rarest flora.
9th July –
Helen Picton – Its not time for bed yet.
Helen Picton from Old Court Nursery and Picton Garden will look at a wide range of plants suitable for late summer and autumn.
10th September
Jim Almond – The all year bulb garden.
A welcome return for retired Biomedical Scientist Jim Almond, whose interests cover all bulbs including snowdrops. He also has a keen interest in Alpines.
8th October
Tracy Foster – Gardening with the Brontes
Our speaker, Tracy Foster, is a garden designer living in Leeds and has regularly created gardens at RHS Shows, winning several medals, including three golds – one of which was at Chelsea, 2012, for the ‘Brontes’ Yorkshire Garden’. A talk not to be missed!
12th November – Note the early start
7pm – Gardenalia – our annual sale of surplus from our sheds.
Followed by –
7.45 pm – Mark Duffle – Dragon Mountain, Drakensberg.
A botanical journey to the Dragon Mountain with Mark Duffle, a botanical and environmental consultant based in Shropshire. https://www.arvensisecology.co.uk/ and https://www.arvensisecology.co.uk/about
10th December – this meeting is an afternoon one, starting at 2.30pm
Margaret (Peggie) Leslie – Christmas Flower arrangements.
NB This is an afternoon meeting to be followed by light refreshments.
