TUESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2018 - KEVIN ALVITI TALKING ON PRESERVING FRUIT AND VEGETABLES and A SOCIAL EVENING

KEVIN IS COMING TO TALK TO ABOUT PRESERVING FRUIT AND VEGETABLES AND WE WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO TRY OUT SOME OF HIS PRESERVES WITH CHEESE AND WINE.

As you know Kevin is Julie Alviti's son and has been before to Caynham to give a talk on Unusual Vegetables.  He is a keen fruit and vegetable grower, has a smallholding in Colwall, near Malvern and looks after a young family of 3, plus currently working very hard on building an extension on their home.  This is all in a days work for Kevin.  He has great enthusiasm for life especially growing the families meals and getting the children involved in the smallholding. He has a popular blog http://www.englishhomestead.com/ He will give a talk on how he preserves his produce especially with his dehydrator.  He will also bring along some of his varied preserves for you all to try along with bread, biscuits and cheese provided by the club.  There will also be a glass of wine.  This is a free social evening for all club members.  

TUESDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2018

ANDREW FUSEK-PETERS - UPLAND - WILDLIFE AND WONDER FROM THE SHROPSHIRE BORDERS

Andrew is a wildlife photographer who is coming to show is his wonderful photographs and give us a few useful tips on photography as well.  He says -

"I am passionate about capturing light and place, movement and stillness, mainly through landscape & wildlife. My photos have been published regularly in the media, including, in the last year: The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Metro, Amateur Photographer, Black & White Photography& What Digital Camera. My recent supermoon photo made the front of The Times and was in The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express and The Daily Mirror and I have had cover shots in Amateur Photographer and EOS Magazine. In June last year, I sold 3 different stories to The Daily Express, The Sunday Telegraph and The Times in one week. Recent and upcoming features are inBBC Wildlife, Digital Camera, The Countryman, Amateur Photographer, Photoplus and EOS Magazine. My 'Hare in the bluebells' featured on BBC Springwatch Unsprung - 'encapsulates spring...', Chris Packham and my Milky Way over the Stiperstones was Countryfile photo of the day. 

I am working for the National Trust and Natural England on Stepping Stones, a project to record species and landscape between the Stiperstones and the Long Mynd. The results are published as a 192 page full colour book 'Upland' by Graffeg, along with a 2018 calendar 'Upland' and a series of greetings cards. BBC Wildlife Magazine have curated a set of photos from the book on their website."

See his website here

SEPTEMBER OUTING ALL DAY

TUESDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2018

GOLDSTONE HALL GARDEN near Market Drayton

10.30 am arrive by car at Goldstone Hall, Goldstone, Market Drayton, TF9 2NA
(5 miles north of Newport on the A41)

Optional coffee on arrival - not included in price.  After an introductory chat, explore 5 acre gardens.
12.30 Buffet lunch - selection of quiches with salads using much garden produce.  Freshly baked breads. Tea/coffee and chocolate brownie.

1.30 - 2.00 pm  Travel to WOODSEAVES GARDEN PLANTS, Market Drayton TF9 2AS

Owner and plants woman Jean Haywood will give a guided tour and Jean's husband will also be there to take us on a tour of the gardens on his narrow gauge miniature railway train!
(Donations on the day for the train appreciated)
Finally tea and cake included in garden charge.

Goldstone Garden and lunch £16.00
Woodseaves plus the tea and cake £5.00
Total for the day £21.00 please.

Please pay to Chris King, Pervin Cottage, Caynham, Ludlow, SY8 3BP by 21st August 2018.
Cheques payable to Caynham Gardening Society.

TUESDAY 7TH AUGUST 2018

A NEW TAKE ON BEDDING - LAURA WILLGOSS
at Caynham Village Hall 7.30 pm

Laura and Jack Willgoss run Wildegoose Nursery at Munslow.  See web site

Wildegoose Nursery set in the beautiful Shropshire countryside is the home of Bouts Violas. It is a small independent nursery, garden and tearoom housed within the old redbrick walls of Millichope Park’s former Kitchen Garden.

Created in 2011 to safeguard the Bouts collection of Perennial Violas, Wildegoose Nursery has gained a reputation for both its violas and an extensive range of wonderful perennials and grasses.

A New Take on Bedding – a move away from traditional municipal bedding schemes, this talk shows you a modern way to use annuals, biennials, tender perennials and bulbs in the garden for vibrant borders throughout the season.

TUESDAY 3RD JULY 2018

AFTERNOON OUTING TO MYND HARDY PLANTS, DIDDLEBURY

Everyone to go by car to Mynd Hardy Plants, Delbury Hall, Diddlebury, Shropshire.  SY7 9DH for 2.30 pm

Just as you approach Diddlebury from the Craven Arms side on the B4368 Mynd Hardy Plants is signposted on the right.  Follow the signs.  The road is called Mill Lane.

We will be having a talk on Daylilies and a tour of the walled garden plus tea/coffee and cake.
See web site here

PLEASE BOOK YOURSELF IN WITH JULIE ALVITI or  CHRIS KING
juliealviti@hotmail.com

Free to members, non members £6.00 per person.

TUESDAY 5TH JUNE 2018

JUNE OUTING TUESDAY 5TH JUNE 2018

VISIT TO ABERNANT, GARTHMYL, NR MONTGOMERY SY15 6RZ

A large garden including 9 acres of woodland with stream, ponds and Severn Valley views.

1.5 miles south of Garthmyl on A483 over steep humpback bridge with wooden statue of a workman to one side, straight ahead is the house.

Supper at the Nags Head, Garthmyl - 7.30 pm
Please book with Chris King before 30th May 2018.

To see more information click on Abernant

SATURDAY 26TH MAY 2018

COFFEE MORNING AND PLANT SALE

Caynham Gardening Society

Saturday 26th May 2018

10.00 am to 12.00 noon

Caynham Village Hall

coffee & tea

raffle cakes

books

plants

Entrance, coffee & biscuit £1

TUESDAY 1ST MAY

BULBS FOR THE UNUSUAL 

BY

ROSS BARBOUR

This month we welcome Ross Barbour who has spent a lifetime in gardening starting as a humble gardener before being given his own garden to run at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. He now works with his wife who runs The Picton Garden & Old Court Nurseries, near Malvern. The nursery specialises in growing and breeding  Michaelmas Daisies.  His topic is Bulbs for the unusual.

Tuesday 3rd April 2018

AGM 

Anyone interested in joining our committee for 2018/19 are very welcome.

Followed by a slide show to music of our garden visits over the past 2 years 

Followed by nibbles and a glass of something.  Everyone welcome.

On Saturday 19th May we will be having our annual plant sale - remember to pot up those cuttings, plant a few extra seeds or when dividing perennials pot an extra one up for the plant sale.

Tuesday 6th March 2018

Ian Thwaites is talking to us on Cacti and Succulents

Ian says

I have grown Cacti and Succulents since I was a young lad and the fascination that I had then is still with me to this day.  It was a hobby that I shared with my Mother and was fostered by members of the Spalding branch who have since become my most treasured personal friends.

This hobby has been an integral part of my whole adult life and through it I have had the opportunity to travel to some rather special locations and meet some rather special people.

TUESDAY 6TH FEBRUARY

SPRING AT STOCKTON BURY GARDENS - TAMSIN WESTHORPE

Tamsin Westhorpe of Stockton Bury Gardens is coming to talk to about Spring at the gardens.  Tamsin came to talk to us a couple of years ago and we all enjoyed her lively talk on Autumn at the gardens.  Hopefully she will help us feel that spring is not too far away!
Tamsin is Raymond Treasure's niece, and has now joined the gardening team at Stockton Bury. She has previously been deputy editor of Amateur Gardening magazine and Editor of The English Garden magazine. Tamsin now spends time in the garden here and writes freelance alongside her role as the Open Gardens Ambassador for the British Red Cross.