New gardening club for local greenthumbs

Local gardening enthusiast, Louise Bennett, has created the Brighton & Surrounds Gardening Club for the passionate greenthumbs in our area. The club holds meetings once a month and provides the community the chance to learn, share and explore all things plants, nature and gardening.

Why did you start the Brighton & Surrounds Gardening Club? I was looking for a garden club in my area (one this side of the Bridge) and very quickly realised that Brighton didn’t have one. We are a rapidly growing community and there are so many people passionate about their gardens, but also people who just don’t know where to start on their patch. What a great way to get people to know one another in our community, help each other and showcase our beautiful part of Tassie.

Have you been a gardener for long? I have been a gardener for as long as I can remember. I took it very seriously when we moved to Brighton fifteen years ago when our neighbor saw us trying to dig a hole and offered us his crowbar! We didn’t realise how rocky our property was! Some years ago, the Tasmanian Royal Botanical Garden offered courses in horticulture. I was very lucky to gain a position to