ESTABLISHED 1892
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STALBRIDGE GARDEN SOCIETY ANNUAL FLOWER & PRODUCE SHOW SATURDAY 18TH AUGUST 2018 ADVANCE NOTICE – GET SNAPPING! PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES FOR 2018 ADULT CLASSES SPRING FLOWERS A BUTTERFLY ON A FLOWER GRASSES SUNRISE OR SUNSET ROOFTOPS CHILDREN’S CLASS A SPIDER’S WEB |
Our 2018 Programme of Talks, outings and events
JANUARY |
Thursday 11th “Fabulous Foliage” – Debbie Winn |
FEBRUARY |
Thursday 8th “Bach Flower Remedies” – Judith Stewart |
MARCH |
Thursday 8th Garden Quiz – Mark Webber AGM and SPRING SHOW |
APRIL |
Thursday 12th “The National Garden Scheme” – David Moon |
MAY |
Thursday 10th "The Bee Friendly Garden” – Neil Lovesey Saturday 12th SPRING PLANT & JUMBLE SALE – Stalbridge Hall, 10.30am. |
JUNE |
Thursday 14th “Growing Your Own” – Castle Gardens ROSE COMPETITION |
JULY |
Thursday 12th Evening Outing |
AUGUST |
Thursday 9th “Ascension Island” – Martin Young Saturday 18th ANNUAL PRODUCE & FLOWER SHOW, Stalbridge Hall, 2.30pm |
SEPTEMBER |
Thursday 13th “Dorset Wildlife Trust – The Importance of Dorset’s Veteran Trees” - Emma Tomlin DAHLIA COMPETITION |
OCTOBER |
Thursday 11th “Designing with Plants” – Marion Dale APPLE COMPETITION |
NOVEMBER |
Thursday 8th “Looking at Hedges & Barriers” – Castle Gardens |
DECEMBER |
Thursday 13th “The Winter Garden – Debbie Winn” and CHRISTMAS BUFFET |
Please note our Annual Produce and Flower Show will be on Saturday 18th August 2018.
Our Plant and Jumble Sale will be on Saturday 12th May 2018.
Our Plant and Jumble Sale will be on Saturday 12th May 2018.
The Society, established in 1892, meets on the second Thursday of each month
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: Anne 01963 362670. 
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Stalbridge Garden Society produce a newsletter each month. Here is the May 2018 edition... Tony Moore our chairman welcomed everyone to the meeting, he gave out the notices and introduced this month’s speaker who was Neil Lovesy from “Pickett lane” nursery. Neil is always a fountain of knowledge, this evening his talk was entitled “Bee Friendly Garden”, Neil explained to us all about the many different species of bee. There are carder bees, bufftail bees, red tail, white tail, colony bees, a tree bee which nests in bird boxes, mining bees, leaf cutter bees, solitary bees, ground bees which quite often make their home in an old mouse nest. There are hundreds more, but also there is the “Asian bee”, this is a cross breed, which, comes with a virus that attaches itself to our native bees, and it kills them. There is also the cooko bee which lays its egg in a bumble bee nest when the young hatch, they feed on the native bumble bees offspring, the giant hornet will destroy as many bumble bee nests as it can find, so this is some of the reasons why are bees are in decline. The native “Queen bee” will lay her own body weight in eggs every day, whilst the female worker bees look after her, the males or drone bees just try to take all of the food! Neil showed us slides of his hives and explained to us how you would go about building one in layers, so that the bees could make the most of the space inside. We saw lots of pictures of bees collecting pollen, producing the wax cells, in which they put the nectar, how the bees feed their young. He showed us how to make somewhere for the bees to hibernate, using bamboo, and how it is good to have flowering plants, in the garden from January onwards, even the humble snowdrop is a good source of pollen. Wasps, they are also a garden friendly creature, because they will feed on , aphids, greenfly, they will finds lots of garden pests and get rid of these for you, but they are however addicted to sugar! Hornets are not a garden friendly visitor. Neil finished by showing us lots of plants which are great for bees, such as, capitulums, umbelifors, buddleias, daises, and lots more. We then had the opportunity to buy some of these plants from Neil. This was a fantastic talk, and made us all really think about our native bee family. Tony thanked Neil for coming, and then reminded everyone about out “plant and jumble sale” on Saturday. The next meeting is on Thursday 14th June, 7.30pm in the hall The talk is “Growing Your Own” with Castle Gardens so do come and join us. I have just heard from Carolyn our new treasurer that we have made over £400 at the plant and jumble sale which is fantastic thank you to everyone who helped out and donated all of the items. There was a good turn out, and it was lovely to see our previous chairman Brian Spiller there. Enjoy your garden this time of year it gets very busy, but just made time to stop sit out in the garden with a cup of tea! Michelle Howell |
The Annual Stalbridge Garden Show in the heart of Hardy country lays out a blooming marvellous display...
"The Sun came out and the residents came to support Stalbridge Garden Society at their Annual Flower & Produce Show. Stalbridge Hall was buzzing all afternoon and the tea ladies were swept off their feet. In the competitions Wendy Bailey won the Westminster Rose for the Highest number of points in the Show and also The Frith Cup (Domestic), The Challenge Cup (Best Floral Decoration), The W.I. Cup (Best W.I. entry) and Wendy and Tony Moore shared The Betty Godwin Trophy (Heaviest weight of potato). There were a good number of children’s entries and Jake Gould won the Betty Godwin Cup (Highest points under 5) William Dike and St. Nicholas School shared The Junior Cup (Highest points 6-9 years). Carenza Howell (highest points 10-13 years). Georgina Dike won The Keith Dumper Memorial Cup for the Best Children’s Entry and also The Stalbridge Cup for the Best Children’s entry in photography. There were many other winners, including John Tinsley who won The Anglesey Bowl for Highest points in vegetables and also The Goblet for the best vegetable exhibit. Jenny Draycott won the William Dike Memorial Cup for the Annual Hanging Basket Competition, sponsored by Dike & Son. In all a very successful and rewarding afternoon".
Look at the map below to see where the Hall is in Stalbridge
