Category: Special Interests

Our Gardening Group met at a member’s home for a picnic lunch following the Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 24 July 2024. The event was well attended, and there was an opportunity to explore our host’s garden and talk about the inevitable problems that the weather this year has created for gardeners. Some of the food…

Our Gardening Group made an afternoon visit on Wednesday 10 July 2024 to the Rose Garden in Bushey, Herts. Just a 20 minute drive from our base in Kenton, we arrived at the Rose Garden in Bushey and parked in the large car par on the opposite side of the High Street. Once at the…

Following on from the AGM and the Summer Social, the members of the Gardening Group met at a nearby home to talk about their experiences in the current hot spell, and the difficulties everyone has been suffering from with the explosion in the number of slugs. The Soil Association has published a Guide to the…

Things are quite busy in MOTO (Members On Their Own) Group this summer. Let’s hope that we get some nice weather as well. We are always on the look out for modestly priced tickets, particularly for matinees and concerts. We welcome any suggestions for events and opportunities to get together at quieter times. At the…

Our Gardening Group set out for a visit to a fascinating garden in nearby Bushey on Wednesday 12 June 2024 at the Reveley Lodge Gardens. There were many specimen plants and trees to see, and there was also a ‘medicinal’ bed containing some plants which were marked as dangerous to touch – fortunately our Risk…

Our Gardening Group met on Wednesday 08 May 2024 for another catch-up session on the jobs in the garden that need to be done in May. There was input from the BBC Gardeners’ World magazine, and from the Gardeners’ World Spring Summer Planner, both listing jobs that can be attended to right now (if only…

Our Gardening Group met on Wednesday 27 March 2024 for an update on what is happening in our gardens and an update on the tasks that we need to be completing before the end of the month. We had instruction on how to get our amaryllis bulbs to flower in subsequent years – it is…

Our Gardening Group met on Wednesday 28 February 2024 for a session on sewing seeds for flowers and vegetables during February and early March in preparation for the coming summer. We had a Master Class video providing a series of tricks and techniques to get germination started and then successfully care for the seedlings as…

Our new Digital Photography group started with its first meeting on Tuesday 06 February 2024. The session started with descriptions of the equipment that the group members are using, and their experience of photography. Some were very experienced, and others were beginners, but that provides the “u3a advantage” for all to learn from the experience…

Our Gardening Group met on Wednesday 24 January 2024 in the afternoon, and gave some thought to the tasks that they ought to be working on during the month of January. We had a number of YouTube videos to watch dealing with the best way to keep Poinsettias growing until next Christmas, and how to…