Our Gardening Group had another tea party in a member’s garden on Wednesday 30 July 2025. After following the clear signage set up for the purpose, the eighteen members entered an interesting garden providing a selection of colourful flowers and a selection of fruit and vegetables.

For flowers there were roses, petunias, agapanthus and zinnias. The flowers were supplemented with scarlet flowers on the runner beans. On the vegetable front there were plenty of lettuce, chard, black kale, climbing french beans, courgette and an abundance of tomatoes – in a greenhouse and outside (blight resistant varieties only). There were also chillies and aubergine in the greenhouse.

On the fruit side, the currants had finished, as had the loganberries and the plums, but there were plenty of blackberries to be seen. There was an abundance of figs – green and brown – and a greengage tree almost drowning in its own weight of fruit. The apple tree (Lane’s Prince Albert) is much treasured and is thought to be nearly a hundred years old! Much of the fruit available on the day was included in the tea!

Our next meeting will also be a tea party and take place on 13 August 2025. (Places are limited and reserved for the regular attenders.)