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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.
if you’d like to book your place/s, please follow this link and make payment asap using either your debit or credit card:https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/The-HPS-Monmouthshire-Group
(Just a few points to note: you don’t need to print your ticket as we will be given a list of names; be careful not to tick the optional insurance box if you don’t need it; if you find the event is sold out, let us know of your interest and we’ll add you to its waiting list in case of cancellations.)
(In the unlikely event that place/s have to be withdrawn, or the talk is cancelled or moved to Zoom, those who’ve booked and paid will be notified by email and, where appropriate, a refund or carry forward of payment arranged.)
Tender Shoots
We are members of the Tender Shoots Gardening Club Network which gives us access to a range of interesting private ZOOM talks. These can be accessed by logging in on the website TSGN with the members password. Recent talks include ‘Garden 365 – and No Excuses’ by Our member Roger Lloyd of Highfield Farm. A plant list is included. Access here via the Private Login page
Venue
Little Mill Village Hall,
Berthon Road, Pontypool
NP4 0HE
Ample Parking
y fun event.
14 Feb 26 2.00pm
Tales from the Potting Shed
Nicola Hope
https://nicolahope.com
Nicola is a consultant organic horticulturalist, planting focussed garden designer, writer and speaker. She trained in Organic Horticulture at Pershore College and holds the prestigious title of RHS Master of Horticulture. She is based in Malmesbury, in the Cotswolds. Nicola has been a professional organic gardener for a long and extremely happy time and been self-employed for the last 15 years.
Nicola will share her experiences and knowledge with interesting and occasional insights, sometimes humorous, from her time working in some very famous estate gardens.
She will tell us of her early experience as an assistant gardener at Highgrove for the then, HRH Prince of Wales. She later held gardening positions at Sting’s Lake House, nr Salisbury, The Abbey House Malmesbury and for leading designer Anoushka Hempel’s Cole Park.
14 March 26 2.00pm
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!
9 May 26 2.00pm
Grass Consciousness
Roger Lloyd
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!
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