Category: Special Interests

  • Gardening with Cool Winter In Sight

    Gardening with Cool Winter In Sight

    At the end of October, with cooler nights on the way, our Gardening Group met to discuss what needs to be done in our gardens to prepare them for winter. In case the prospect was too gloomy, we were treated to some videos on how to prepare a Bulb Lasagne for the coming Spring. Using…

  • Jobs for September in our Gardens

    Jobs for September in our Gardens

    Our Gardening Group met in the afternoon on Wednesday 28 August 2024 with a view to finding jobs to be done in September, and how best to go about them. There were many jobs listed including sewing hardy annuals, lifting gladioli corms, collecting ripened seeds, and planting up containers for the winter. September is also…

  • Gardening Group holds Picnic Lunch

    Gardening Group holds Picnic Lunch

    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…

  • Fragrant Rose Bushes in Bushey Garden

    Fragrant Rose Bushes in Bushey Garden

    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…

  • Investigating the Slugs This Year

    Investigating the Slugs This Year

    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…

  • Our MOTO group goes out together!

    Our MOTO group goes out together!

    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…

  • Fascinating Bushes in Bushey Garden

    Fascinating Bushes in Bushey Garden

    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…

  • Listing the Gardening Jobs for May

    Listing the Gardening Jobs for May

    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…

  • The March of our Gardening Group

    The March of our Gardening Group

    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…

  • Gardeners Sewing the Seeds of Success

    Gardeners Sewing the Seeds of Success

    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…