Restoring a Walled Garden: The Journey 29 October 2020
Do book a place to come an hear Surya and Will Patterson tell us how they took their derelict 1 acre walled garden, which once belonged to the Lindridge Park Estate, and began to bring some order back to the wildness. A 10 year plan was formed and great progress has...
September 2020 Newsletter by Suzanne
The Next Six Months After a successful September meeting, the programme of meetings for 2020/21 will continue, unless restrictions rules change. Our next meeting is on October 29th, please contact Suzanne or June to book your place. Natural Pests Defence: If your...
August 2020 Newsletter by Suzanne
The Summer Plant Sale Thank you to everyone who made such a great success of our plant sale. From the preparation of plants, new coloured pricing and labels helped enormously with the smooth running on the day, this is due to great teamwork from the committee and...
August 2020 Plant Sale
What a successful day! Thank you to all of the people who provided plants, time, energy, custom and transport to result in a staggering £700 odd income from the sale. There was a wide variety of house and garden plants as well as herbs and vegetables for our customers...
July 2020 Newsletter by Suzanne
Dawlish Garden Society Newsletter July 2020 A goodbye this month As many of you will know Val and John Carne have moved this month from Dawlish to Keynsham to be near their family. They have both, over the years, been strong supporters of the society, with Val on the...
June 2020 Newsletter by Suzanne
Dawlish Garden Society Newsletter June 2020 News The society is still planning to hold a summer plant sale on The Strand, we would like to arrange it on a day when there are other events in the town, when we have a date we will let everyone know. Our next scheduled...
May 2020 Newsletter by Suzanne
Dawlish Garden Society Newsletter May 2020 News and Announcements Regrettably the Summer Show and plant sale have had to be cancelled. However, don’t stop planting up young plants and bringing on prize specimens as we hope to hold an autumn show and plant sale if...
CANCELLED – Spring Flower Show + Send a Cow. 26/3/20
As The Manor House has closed its doors for the next few weeks, sadly we have had to cancel our next two events - on 26 March (Spring Flower Show) and 30 April (Lukesland Gardens). We will monitor events as they unfold and decide whether we can go ahead with the...
Snowdrops & Cyclamen in the Wild & the Garden. 27/2/20
“Snowdrops are fashionable again”, Jo Hynes stated, as she started her talk at the Manor House. Her garden at Higher Cherubeer, near Winkley, North Devon opens regularly for charity in the “Yellow Book” within the National Gardens Scheme (NGS). She became their...
Bring & Share Supper and AGM + Dawlish in Bloom. 30/1/20
Remembering that the AGM of 2019 had to be abandoned because of a heavy snow fall - the Chairman, June Cassidy, welcomed loyal and new members to the January meeting and AGM in complete contrast - very mild weather indeed. Reports were given from the Treasurer, Dick...
Prairie Style Planting For Your Garden, Suzanne Jones, 28/11/19
Welcoming members and visitors to the Manor, the Chairman introduced Suzanne Jones as the speaker for the evening with her subject of “ Prairie Style Planting for your Garden”. Suzanne is involved with various societies and groups in Dawlish and has studied Garden...
My Time as RHS Chelsea Show Manager, Saul Walker 31/10/19
As the rain lashed down on Halloween, Dawlish Garden Society was in for a treat without any tricks. The invited speaker was Saul Walker who is Head Gardener at Stonelands, a local Dawlish manor house. We can also hear Saul on the Sunday morning, BBC Radio Devon...