Prairie Style Planting in Your Garden. Suzanne Jones. 28/11/19
This month we welcome Suzanne Jones, who studied Garden Design at Bicton College, to advise on how best to achieve the artless look of Prairie planting in your own garden. However small your plot may be you can add graceful grasses and colourful flowers to enhance...
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...
Food for Free by Becca Flintham, 26/9/19
They say there is no such thing as a free lunch, but the September meeting of the Dawlish Garden Society discovered that this would be possible by making the most of natures bounty. Our speaker, Becca Flintham from Escot fired our enthusiasm to see hedgerow and...
Dawlish Flower, Produce & Crafts Show 10/8/19
Dawlish was treated to a spectacular Flower, Produce and Crafts Show on Saturday in the Strand Centre. The entries are growing in number and the quality just keeps getting better each year. It's encouraging to see more children entering their creative work across all...
Flower Arranging for a Show, Carole Carter. 27/6/19
Following feedback from the Flower, Produce and Craft Show last year, Carole Carter was requested to speak to the members on how to prepare their floral exhibits for the show this year. She judged a highly scented Sweet Pea brought by Dave Chattock as flower of the...
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...