Events | L&D Gardening Club

Programme 2026

13^th January

7.00pm

Grow the food you can’t buy! Katherine Crouch

Gold Medal winner at Chelsea.
Encouraging us to grow new veg and perennial crops.

10^th February

7.00pm

Growing dahlias for the garden

Neal Hatch from west Lydford
Prize winning grower of dahlias.

10^th March

7.00pm

Lindsay and Stephen Lister

Attracting pollinators to your garden in all seasons
An ecofriendly approach to growing plants

14^th April

6.00pm

Visit to Brimsmore Garden Centre

Discount shopping and talk by the Brimsmore team
Brimsmore Garden Centre, Yeovil

12^th May

7.00pm

Garden ponds and features for wildlife. Colin Higgins

Colin is a gardener and wildlife photographer

9^th June

7.00pm

Amelia Williams

Trees for all Seasons
A fascinating, knowledgeable and enthusiastic speaker

14^th July

7.00pm

Stourhead – Tim Parker

Tim is the Head Gardener at Stourhead

August

NO MEETING

8^th September

6.00pm

BBQ and surplus vegetable, fruit & plant swap

St Peter’s Churchyard

13^th October

7.00pm

Sally Nex

Gardening without peat

10^th November

7.00pm

Club AGM and the Gardens Group

House plants for Christmas

8^th December

7.00pm

Club Christmas Dinner

Details to be confirmed

Tea and coffee with homemade cakes and biscuits and an opportunity for friendly chat and banter are offered before the beginning of each meeting. There is a rota for volunteers to oversee serving refreshments and clearing up.

We hold a raffle at each meeting to supplement club funds and donations are always welcome.

Members are very welcome to bring along surplus plants, fruit and vegetables to swap or give away.

If you have suggestions for topics, speakers or visits, please speak to a committee member.

Previous Meetings

April 2026

April’s adventure was the annual trip to Brimsmore. Club members managed to avoid most of the vast chasms otherwise known as potholes which appeared to have been cunningly positioned as...

March 2026

The staggeringly industrious Club Secretary, Lynne has spent considerable time and effort researching and implementing the 2026 Potato Growing Competition and all members of the Club have been given the...

February 2026

On Tuesday 10th February our speaker was Neal Hatch, resident of Lydford Fairplace and dahlia grower extraordinaire! Neal obviously knew enough about his subject to have kept going into the...

January 2026

Tuesday 13th January, being the second Tuesday in the month, was Gardening Club night and the first meeting of the year buzzed with life and enthusiasm. Subscriptions were paid and willingly, representing the best value...

December 2025

The December meeting of the club has morphed into the annual Christmas Dinner, which was held at the marvellous village asset which is otherwise known as the Cross Keys. The...

November 2025

For our November meeting of the Gardening Club, the speaker was Arthur Cole and he was talking about ‘The Newt’ with reference to its present form being the latest step...