Welcome to The Patcham Gardening Network!
Do you enjoy gardening?
Would you like to join a group to share knowledge, skills, plants and much more?
The Patcham Gardening Network is a group of local gardening enthusiasts who meet once a month to share and enhance our gardening knowledge. We invite experts to give talks and workshops, and organise trips to gardens and plant fairs. We are building a community for local gardeners of all abilities to indulge their passion further.
Membership is open to all at £24 per year. Please Join Us! Our annual subscription renewal is due at the end of March and details of how to pay electronically will be sent in our next newsletter and be available at our next meeting.
Patcham Gardening Network presents....
Our next event is on Wednesday April 24th with Ben Cross of Crosslands Flower Nursery, a family owned and run nursery which specialises in cut Alstroemerias. Ben is an award-winning grower at Crosslands, one of the last flower nurseries in the UK that produces cut flowers in a full colour range all year round.
Come and hear Ben talk about his sustainable crop - flowers are not sprayed with any chemicals, not forced, and are minimally heated and watered. He also only employs local people at the nursery and runs apprenticeship schemes with local horticultural colleges.
Ben is an ambassador for British flower growing and founder of the British Flowers Rock Campaign. He will be selling bunches of Alstroemerias on the night for only £3 each, cash only so bring your coins! This is going to be a great talk - we look forward to seeing you there.
Details of all of our upcoming speakers for 2024 can be found on our Events page.
Thanks to everyone who came to hear Pippa Greenwood My Life in Gardening in March. It was enthralling to hear her horticultural story and we will be inviting her back again for her wisdom on pests and diseases, watch this space!
PGN Open Gardens
We are keen for PGN members to open up their gardens for others to look around. Our first of 2024 will be Sally Booth's garden on Saturday 15th June from 11am - 4pm. On Saturday 13th July Sara Piper will be opening her garden from 2pm. Please do come along to socialise with other members in Sally and Sara's lovely gardens.
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