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Programme 2025 – 26
The cost will generally be £4 per person for HPS members and £6 per person for non-members, though it may be higher for some speakers, plus £1 for each raffle ticket. The ticket cost will be included in the meeting details for each speaker.
The funds raised go towards the cost of our speakers and improving our future programme as well as towards our raffle prizes (raffle tickets are optional of course). Now that we are back to meeting in this larger hall, we have also taken the opportunity to invest some of the proceeds of last season’s programme into a new projector: being able to show larger clearer images will be of real benefit for our speakers and all of us.
Venue
Little Mill Village Hall,
Berthon Road, Pontypool
NP4 0HE
Ample Parking
14 March 26 4.00pm
Summer Bulbs
Rob Evans
Rob of Pheasant Acre Plants was Malvern’s 2022 Master Grower. He is a renowned specialist in cultivating gladioli and dahlias, along with tulips and other spring bulbs, and the winner of 10 consecutive Gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. This established family business, run by Rob, operates from nursery premises near Bridgend.
Bulbs, tubers and corms are associated mainly with spring in mind, but there are many that can be planted in the next month or so which will give glorious colour for the summer and into autumn. Rob will describe the best to choose, explain about their cultivation and, of course, he will have plenty available to buy. You wont be able to resist!
11 April 26 2.00pm
Climbers
Jane Lindsay, Tynings Climbers
https://tyningsplants.co.uk
Jane (on the left) runs Tynings Plants in North Somerset together with Toni O’Connor. They hold four National Collections – Passiflora, Jasminum, Mandevilla and Thunbergia. The nursery specialises in climbers but have a range of other perennials many of which are propagated at the nursery.
They have won many Gold Medals, including six successive Golds at RHS Chelsea.
Jane will talk about her love of climbers which started when she to work for John Vanderplank who, at the time, had been awarded the national collection of Passiflora. The year’s work experience, lasted 17 years, and this, together with studying at Cannington horticultural college gave her a wide knowledge of horticulture. During this time she continued growing on the market garden and, upon the death of her grandfather she returned home to set up the nursery with Toni O’Connor. Life soon became hectic, erecting greenhouses and poly tunnels as well as attending major flower shows. To this day her first love is propagation.
9 May 26 2.00pm
Grass Consciousness
Roger Lloyd
https://highfieldfarmgarden.co.uk
Suddenly, grasses are everywhere in modern garden design. Whether it’s the New American Movement, New Perennial Movement, Prairie planting or more generally, Naturalistic planting, grasses usually feature heavily. This talk will cover the advantages of using grasses, how they are incorporated in garden design, which grass in which location, their care and maintenance, companion planting and a list of favourites, which will be provided as a handout.
Roger and Jenny Lloyd have developed a 3 acre garden in Monmouthshire with an ever-expanding range of plants. Featured are almost 40 different grasses. Another one of Roger’s developing obsessions, which he will share with us!
Monmouthshire Group 