ESTABLISHED 1892
Our 2019 Programme of Talks, outings and events
JANUARY |
Thursday 10th "Space & Climate Change" Tony Davies |
FEBRUARY |
Thursday 14th "Snowdrops" Lyn Miles |
MARCH |
Thursday 14th "Dahlias" Geoff Jeans AGM and SPRING SHOW |
APRIL |
Thursday 11th "Bonsai Spring Care" Tony Moore |
MAY |
Thursday 9th "How to impress the photographic Judge" Bob Indge Saturday 11th SPRING PLANT & JUMBLE SALE – Stalbridge Hall, 10.30am. |
JUNE |
Thursday 13th "From Garden boy to Woodland Supervisor" Geoff Greenhaugh ROSE COMPETITION |
JULY |
Thursday 11th Evening Outing |
AUGUST |
Thursday 8th "Preparing Flowers & Produce for the Show" Geoff Jeans et al Saturday 17th ANNUAL PRODUCE & FLOWER SHOW, Stalbridge Hall, 2.30pm |
SEPTEMBER |
Thursday 12th "Clematis" Heather & Chris Robinson DAHLIA COMPETITION |
OCTOBER |
Thursday 10th "Seeds & More Plants for Free" Neil Lovesey APPLE COMPETITION |
NOVEMBER |
Thursday 14th "Gardens of World War 1" Christine Stones |
DECEMBER |
Thursday 12th Home Grown Quiz and CHRISTMAS BUFFET |
Please note our Annual Produce and Flower Show will be on Saturday 17th August 2019.
All Stalbridge residents are invited to enter the Hanging Basket or Window Box competition. 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes kindly donated by Dike & Sons, who also judge this fun competition! Entry forms below, or available in Dikes, Post Office, Williams Florist,Grace Haines, Ring Street Filling Station and other shops etc in Stalbridge. Prizes presented at the Annual Show as above.
ENTRY FORM:
STALBRIDGE GARDEN SOCIETY
HANGING BASKET COMPETITION
for THE WILLIAM DIKE MEMORIAL CUP
Prizes: 1st - £15. 2nd - £10. 3rd - £5. (Dike’s vouchers)
ENTRY FORM 2019 – OPEN TO ALL STALBRIDGE RESIDENTS
Judging will take place during the week beginning
Monday 5th August 2019. Winners will be announced
at the end of the Garden Show on Saturday 17th August.
We will contact the winners by telephone if they cannot be at
the prize giving.
Please complete and deliver this form to:
Grace Haines (next to the road up to Dike’s supermarket)
Ring Street, Stalbridge, by Wednesday 31st July.
NAME: ....................................................................................
ADDRESS: ...............................................................................
..............................................................................
..............................................................................
TELEPHONE: ...........................................................................
The exhibit must be visible from the road and will be judged from the road.
Please indicate below the position of your exhibit from the road.
SPONSORED BY DIKE & SON LTD.
All Stalbridge residents are invited to enter the Hanging Basket or Window Box competition. 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes kindly donated by Dike & Sons, who also judge this fun competition! Entry forms below, or available in Dikes, Post Office, Williams Florist,Grace Haines, Ring Street Filling Station and other shops etc in Stalbridge. Prizes presented at the Annual Show as above.
ENTRY FORM:
STALBRIDGE GARDEN SOCIETY
HANGING BASKET COMPETITION
for THE WILLIAM DIKE MEMORIAL CUP
Prizes: 1st - £15. 2nd - £10. 3rd - £5. (Dike’s vouchers)
ENTRY FORM 2019 – OPEN TO ALL STALBRIDGE RESIDENTS
Judging will take place during the week beginning
Monday 5th August 2019. Winners will be announced
at the end of the Garden Show on Saturday 17th August.
We will contact the winners by telephone if they cannot be at
the prize giving.
Please complete and deliver this form to:
Grace Haines (next to the road up to Dike’s supermarket)
Ring Street, Stalbridge, by Wednesday 31st July.
NAME: ....................................................................................
ADDRESS: ...............................................................................
..............................................................................
..............................................................................
TELEPHONE: ...........................................................................
The exhibit must be visible from the road and will be judged from the road.
Please indicate below the position of your exhibit from the road.
SPONSORED BY DIKE & SON LTD.
July Meeting 2019
The July meeting as always is our evening outing, this year I organised a trip to a NGS garden in Martock.
Twenty six of us boarded the Vale coach, and we set off to a garden called Yews Farm, it was a lovely ride on a beautiful summers evening, when we arrived we were greeted by the owner Fergus.
The garden was on a quarter acre plot, it looked much larger than that, it was like a series of rooms, with a vegetable and fruit area this was planted and tended by Fergus.
The flower element of the garden was designed and planted by Louise the other half of the team ,, she is a garden designer, by trade and had used clever boundaries of clipped box hedging, along with block planting of common and unusual flower combinations.
We also had the opportunity to, wonder into the farm yard with its self-sown flower area, happy free range chickens and not forgetting the three lovely pigs, sausage , bacon, and ?
Fergus and Louise also have a large, cider apple orchard, with heritage trees, this was quite a large site with lovely old farm buildings, greenhouses and tractors. The house its self was charming, the Dowdings had lived there for over twenty years, slowly building and creating a truly wonderful garden.
We ended our evening with tea, coffee, and fantastic homemade cakes, sat under a beautifully lit, old farm building.
We all had a lovely evening, said our goodbyes and made our way back to a very comfortable Vale coach, and our driver Andy, for a smooth journey home.
Next month is “Preparing Flowers and Produce for the Show” with our very own Geoff Jeans, so come along to the hall on Thursday 8th August at 7.30pm.
Enjoy the produce in your gardens, keep cutting those sweet peas, there is still time to plant out summer bedding, also sow lettuce and radish seed, we could also do with a little rain to keep everything going so we all have something to enter in the show.
The annual garden show will be held on August 17th, don’t forget to pick up a program and enter! Also the hanging basket completion.
Michelle Howell
The July meeting as always is our evening outing, this year I organised a trip to a NGS garden in Martock.
Twenty six of us boarded the Vale coach, and we set off to a garden called Yews Farm, it was a lovely ride on a beautiful summers evening, when we arrived we were greeted by the owner Fergus.
The garden was on a quarter acre plot, it looked much larger than that, it was like a series of rooms, with a vegetable and fruit area this was planted and tended by Fergus.
The flower element of the garden was designed and planted by Louise the other half of the team ,, she is a garden designer, by trade and had used clever boundaries of clipped box hedging, along with block planting of common and unusual flower combinations.
We also had the opportunity to, wonder into the farm yard with its self-sown flower area, happy free range chickens and not forgetting the three lovely pigs, sausage , bacon, and ?
Fergus and Louise also have a large, cider apple orchard, with heritage trees, this was quite a large site with lovely old farm buildings, greenhouses and tractors. The house its self was charming, the Dowdings had lived there for over twenty years, slowly building and creating a truly wonderful garden.
We ended our evening with tea, coffee, and fantastic homemade cakes, sat under a beautifully lit, old farm building.
We all had a lovely evening, said our goodbyes and made our way back to a very comfortable Vale coach, and our driver Andy, for a smooth journey home.
Next month is “Preparing Flowers and Produce for the Show” with our very own Geoff Jeans, so come along to the hall on Thursday 8th August at 7.30pm.
Enjoy the produce in your gardens, keep cutting those sweet peas, there is still time to plant out summer bedding, also sow lettuce and radish seed, we could also do with a little rain to keep everything going so we all have something to enter in the show.
The annual garden show will be held on August 17th, don’t forget to pick up a program and enter! Also the hanging basket completion.
Michelle Howell
The Society, established in 1892, meets on the second Thursday of each month
in Stalbridge Hall at 7.30.pm
in Stalbridge Hall at 7.30.pm
Why not come and join us?
We would love to see you.
Annual subscription £10.00
or just come as a visitor for £2 per evening.
Each month we have a talk by an expert
on an aspect of gardening or garden related topic.
Alongside some of our talks we hold
season-related informal competitions.
Just come along,
or for more information please telephone:
Tony: 01963 365848
We would love to see you.
Annual subscription £10.00
or just come as a visitor for £2 per evening.
Each month we have a talk by an expert
on an aspect of gardening or garden related topic.
Alongside some of our talks we hold
season-related informal competitions.
Just come along,
or for more information please telephone:
Tony: 01963 365848
Look at the map below to see where the Hall is in Stalbridge
