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Hello Everyone
Christmas and New Year are over so it’s time now to get you and your garden back on track. The Monmouthshire branch of the Hardy Plant Society is here to help you in any way it can. Please read on:
Coming Up:
A reminder that the HPS Mid-winter Lunch at the Chainbridge is on Wednesday 21 January. There is a two-course lunch with meat, fish and vegetarian options at a cost of £28 for the two courses. Your drinks will be an extra. The Chainbridge team pride themselves on their home-raised beef and vegetarian options.Places are still available via TicketSource: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/The-HPS-Monmouthshire-Group
For those who have already booked, please send your food choices by midday on 14 January (TODAY!!) to monmouthshirehps@gmail.com
The first talk of the year will take place at the Little Mill Hall NP4 0HE at 2.30 on Saturday 14 February, when Nicola Hope will speak on ‘Tales from the Potting Shed’. Nicola runs an organic gardening consultancy and garden design business from her home near Malmesbury. She’ll be sharing her horticultural knowledge and experience along with some insights and amusing tales of working on some very famous estate gardens, Highgrove among them. Nicola studied Organic Horticulture at Pershore and has held positions with Sting at the Lake House near Salisbury, the Abbey House, Malmesbury and for Anoushka Hempel at Cole Park. This promises to be an excellent start to the New Year. Not to be missed!
Members £4, non-members £6.
Did you know:
Sometimes it’s good to be reminded of how things began:
The HPS Monmouthshire Group is for those who love hardy herbaceous perennials, shrubs and trees and enjoy sharing their enthusiasm with other like-minded gardeners in the County and beyond.
In December 1956, the horticulturalist, Alan Bloom, called a meeting to discuss the formation of a society to promote knowledge and appreciation of hardy herbaceous perennials. The first meeting was in March 1957 and 30 people attended and so, the Hardy Plant Society was formed with Alan Bloom as its first Chairman. In 1963, the Society proposed the formation of Special Interest Groups for more in depth exchange of information and expertise for specific plant families. Each has its independent group and programme of talks and visits.
The Society is for people who love hardy perennials for their variety, colours, shapes, sizes and longevity. We help each other to grow them better, to try different species and we exchange and spread information about them. The Monmouthshire Group of the Hardy Plant Society is part of a network of 45 local groups throughout the UK. and organises:
· Talks by experts
· Private garden visits
· Plant sales from other members
· and a forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge, experience, tips, advice or just plain enthusiasm, all shared over a relaxing cup of tea, cakes and snacks
To renew your HPS membership:
Members of the Monmouthshire Group must be paid-up members of the Hardy Plant Society. If you’re not sure whether you are up to date you can visit the HPS website to check. Go to https://hardy-plant.org.uk/members-page
The subscription rate for 2026 has risen to £27 for a single member and £33 for joint members. If you have been paying by standing order, you need to instruct your bank to increase your subscription accordingly.
Our local group website is: www.hpsmonmouthshhire.co.uk and national HPS is: at www.hardy-plant.org.uk. All contain useful information.
We welcome feedback, suggestions for speakers or for gardens of interest for future visits. Please send us an email if you have something to say. And if you can lend a hand in some capacity, we’d love to hear that too.
Happy gardening.
SueThe HPS Monmouthshire Group
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Selling Plants at Meetings
Should you want to sell plants at our meetings (please do), here are some helpful guidelines. If you have enough plants for an entire table please let us know beforehand. Otherwise, please arrive a little before the meeting and put your plants on the shared table/s. We will keep track of the sales and give you your share afterwards.
Whether you sell your own plants or ask others to sell on your behalf, our policy is that of the first £40 of your sales, you give 50% to group funds and retain 50%. Proceeds from your sales beyond £40 are then yours to keep.
Keeping track of sales does depend on your labelling. The following is a system which we’ve found works well and we ask that you use it:
- Each of your pots should have 2 labels, with the text clearly visible/legible.
- One label naming the plant – either with its Latin name or its common name, though both can be used. (You could also add flower colour and expected size if useful, perhaps on the reverse of the label.)
- The other, coloured if wanted, should have your name or identity mark and the asking price. (This label is removed and retained when the plant is sold to enable your sales to be totalled, and then given back to you so you also reuse it at a future sale.)
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For further details of our local group and programme of events, see https://hpsmonmouthshire.co.uk/
To book places at events where booking is open, see https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/The-HPS-Monmouthshire-Group
For more about the national Hardy Plant Society, see https://www.hardy-plant.org.uk/
The HPS Monmouthshire Group is also an Affiliated Group of the RHS, see https://www.rhs.org.uk/
Note: If at any time you would like to be added to or removed from our emailing list or to view or change the personal information The HPS Monmouthshire Group holds about you, please send an email to monmouthshirehps@gmail.com with ‘Personal Information’ as the subject line.
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