Our first coach trip of the year is a full day trip to North Yorkshire to visit Jackson’s Wold Garden, and Scampston Hall and Walled Garden
Gardener and artist Becky Crowley will discuss the key principles to consider when planning and growing ornamental cutting gardens for productivity, beauty and biodiversity.
This evening we will be looking at how plants and pollinators work together.
In this illustrated talk, Dr Jenny Stephenson will give an overview of the history of the use of plant-based medications over the world and relate this to their basic chemistry and use of some in today’s medicines.
This beautiful English shrub rose is a fabulous addition to a mixed border. It produces large deep pink-mauve blooms in clusters through summer into autumn. Each pointed bud develops quickly into a semi-double flower which lasts a week, and as it matures the golden stamens are revealed, becoming available to pollinators. The profusion of roses on the 2m high bush with the healthy green foliage is a striking sight. The sweet fragrance is of old roses. Being a rugosa rose, R. ‘Wild Edric’ can be used for hedging; its incredibly prickly stems would deter even squirrels.
Join us for a walk looking at the medicinal uses of plants.