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Gardening.
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The gardening group is very much in demand and you may have to join
a waiting list before getting a place.
Nevertheless, if you are interested contact:
Dorothy Sweatman: 790 4073
* Please let Dorothy know by 10th January if you wish to go to the lunch
Meetings start at 10am every last Tuesday in the month
Please bring any spare seeds, plants, cuttings or ideas with you
and we do need to make time for discussing our gardening problems -
like what to do when it rains every day !
Gardening Programme 2010
* January 26th Lunch at Boysnope Golf Club, Irlam 12.15 ?
February 23rd Eccles Library: Weather protection
and Summer bulbs
March 30th Gordon Riggs [by Car]
April 27th 17 Bedford Avenue: Practical session
May 25th Chatsworth [by Coach]
June 29th Eccles Library: Herbs
July 27th Chat Moss Herbs and Vicarage Gardens [by Car]
August 31st Eccles Library: Bees and Beneficial Insects
September 28th Barnsdale or Arley Hall [by Coach]
October 26th Eccles Library: Window boxes and Shrubs
November 30th Eccles Library: Watering and Composting
December 23rd No Meeting
We exchange cuttings and also perennials when they need to be divided.
It is lovely to be reminded by friend’s plants as you walk round your garden. Very enjoyable are the visits to gardens, mostly ones which look good all the year round, we usually go by coach in late spring or summer and these trips are much appreciated. Sometimes we use each others cars for a nearer garden like Fletcher Moss or Bents private garden.
We have videos of gardens and gardening programmes and plenty of reference books. It's very pleasant, in warm weather, to sit in the garden which often stimulates interest in the plants which we have striven to make colourful all the year round. This is often achieved from coloured and variegated leaves which last longer than blossoms and flowers.
The BBC has extensive information on gardening projects
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