Flower Arranging at the Show, 27 June 2019
Carole Carter will be bringing her expertise to share ideas and tips on how to prepare and arrange an exhibit for a show (or to update your skills for displays at home). Remember to bring your flower for the Flower of the Month competition. Members £1; visitors...
The Garden at Feebers Cottage, Edna & Mike Squires. 30/5/19
May has been a busy month for gardeners in Dawlish, members have enjoyed the Foraging Walk, Toby's garden festival, two visits to local NGS garden Stonelands, Devon County Show and Luscombe Castle Gardens. To top it all the recent Spring Plant Sale raised a record...
Visit to Stonelands Garden
On a blustery day in May the Society made 2 visits (AM and PM) to Stonelands - a local private garden which opens as part of the National Gardens Scheme. Saul Walker the Head Gardener showed us the progress being made around the estate and the workload of the small...
Successful Plant Sale
Take a look at the team of volunteers selling donated and home grown plants at the Strand Centre where record takings for the society were raised on Saturday May 18th. Well Done to everyone involved.
Strawberries and Cream Teas with Lori Reich. 25 April 2019
The speaker at the April meeting of Dawlish Garden Society was Lori Reich of Shute Fruit Farm with her talk entitled "Strawberries and Cream Teas". American by birth but Devonian by choice, she talked as she demonstrated her jam making skills whilst multi-tasking by...
April Flower of the Month was judged by our speaker Lori Reich. 3rd place was Alison Foster with a fragrant Freesia, 2nd was Valerie Forrester with a Camassia, 1st was Roberta Stather with a White Lilac. Well done to all entrants.
Visit the Gallery to view photos of the Spring Flower Show 2019, overall winner announced as Jenny Lancaster. She was presented with the John Hayday Cup by Show Secretary Sue Thompson at the April meeting.
Spring Flower Show, AGM & Talk, 28 March 2019
Traditionally, the March meeting of the Dawlish Garden Society is dedicated to a Spring Flower Show - but it was a packed agenda as the Annual General Meeting had to be fitted in too. (Unfortunately the planned AGM couldn't take place in January, due to heavy...
Japan in Spring, Roger Clark & Chie Nakatani. 28 February, 2019
Considering the January meeting was cancelled due to a heavy downfall of snow, there was full attendance, including visitors, for our speaker Roger Clark with a talk entitled Spring in Japan. He was accompanied by Chie Nakatani who has practised acupuncture both in...
Camellias by Jeremy Wilson, 29 November 2018
Considering the inclement weather it was a full turnout for the November meeting of Dawlish Garden Society to hear Jeremy Wilsons’ talk on Camellias. Jeremy has worked in the horticulture industry for many years and now runs a small nursery (Strete Gate Camellias)...
New Developments at The Italian Garden at Great Ambrook 25/10/18
The October meeting of the Dawlish Garden Society welcomed Angela Dodd-Crompton to talk about her time at the Italianate Garden at Great Ambrook where she has spent 13 years and over 13,000 hours volunteering, investigating and uncovering the original design. Angela...
Edibles for Your Garden & Kitchen. 27 September 2018
The speaker at the September meeting of the Dawlish Garden Society was Chris Seagon who with his wife Jenny own the Edible Garden Nursery at Whiddon Down. They have been growing plants for over 20 years chemical, heat and peat free, so have plenty of experience to...