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COMPILED BY KATE LEW IS DIARY EVENTS FROM CLUBS AND ORGANISATIONS AROUND DEVON
Here’s a selection of gardening events to look out for during the next few weeks throughout Devon. Send us details of your event at least ten weeks before publication and we will publicise it free of charge. Make sure you let us know where the event is being held, the date and include a contact telephone number. We are keen to support garden club events and we will be glad to publicise talks and shows held during the year where clubs want to attract a wider audience, but we do not have space for club outings or parties. We suggest that garden clubs send us their diary for the year for events to be included in the relevant issue of the magazine. Please send to Country Gardener Magazines, Mount House, Halse, Taunton TA4 3AD or by email to timeoff@countrygardener.co.uk and copy to vivienne@countrygardener.co.uk We take great care to ensure that details are correct at the time of going to press but we advise readers to check wherever possible before starting out on a journey as circumstances can force last minute changes. All NGS open gardens can be found on www.ngs.org.uk or in the local NGS booklet available at many outlets.
FEBRUARY 8th HOLCOMBE GARDEN SOCIETY ‘AGAPANTHUS’ – DICK FULCHER Details on 01626 862823 SEATON GARDEN CLUB KEN BASTERFIELD – BEE MAN FROM BLACKBERRY HONEY FARM Details on 01297 22869 NEWTON POPPLEFORD & DISTRICT GARDENS & ALLOTMENTS ASSOCIATION AGM 9th LITTLE ASH BUNGALOW, FENNY BRIDGES, HONITON SNOWDROP OPEN GARDEN Details on 01404 850941 10th/11th THE GARDEN HOUSE, BUCKLAND MONACHORUM SNOWDROP OPENING Details on 01822 854769 12th CHULMLEIGH & DISTRICT GARDEN SOCIETY INTER-CLUB QUIZ NIGHT 14th OGWELL GARDEN SOCIETY ‘EXPLORING TURKEY’ – NORMAN MAUDSLEY Details on 01626 364543
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17th/18th THE GARDEN HOUSE, BUCKLAND MONACHORUM SNOWDROP OPENING Details on 01822 854769 19th WOOLWELL HORTICULTURAL GROUP ‘A YEAR AT HIDDEN VALLEY GARDENS’ – TRICIA HOWARD Details on 01752 776230 MEAVY GARDEN SOCIETY ‘SHEEPSTOR OPEN GARDENS’ & AGM Details on 01822 852672 20th BICKLEIGH, ROBOROUGH & DISTRICT GARDEN SOCIETY ‘HELLEBORES’ – JOHN MANN Details on 01822 855413 LYMPSTONE GARDEN CLUB ‘COASTAL GARDENING’ – JAMES CORDINGLEY Details on 01395 269989 TOPSHAM FLOWER CLUB ‘BOUND FOR THE BEGINNING OF SPRING’ – ALISON PENNO Details on 01392 430381 21st COLYTON & DISTRICT GARDEN SOCIETY ‘THE GROWING ART OF BONSAI’ – NEIL HUTCHINGS Details on 01297 552362
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TORQUAY & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ‘PLANTS OF DARTMOOR WITH SOME MEDICINAL PROPERTIES’ – PAUL RENDELL email: nickybaker222@btinternet.com 22nd BARNSTAPLE & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ‘DAHLIAS’ – TONY KINGDOM Details on 01769 574551 24th BONIFACE CENTRE, CREDITON ‘EAT, SHARE, GROW’ – 10TH ANNUAL CREDITON SEED SHARE EVENT THE GARDEN HOUSE, BUCKLAND MONACHORUM SNOWDROP OPENING Details on 01822 854769 27th EXMOUTH GARDEN CLUB ‘BISHOPS PALACE GARDEN’ – JAMES CROSS Details on 01395 263513 TIVERTON GARDEN CLUB ‘PLANT HERITAGE AND ILLUSTRATED TALK’ – MIKE & EDNA SAVAGE Details on 01884 258283 YEALM GARDENS SOCIETY ‘NO NETTLES REQUIRED – THE TRUTH ABOUT WILDLIFE GARDENING’ – KEN THOMPSON Details on 01752 873393