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---Our next meeting is in October but check our programme for the series of Garden Visits we have planned.
The Horticultural Society Show is on SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER,
See separate leaflet for details.
Important Information on the PHOTGRAPHY CATEGORIES chosen by Jim and Audrey for this year are :
1 ) Close up to nature
2) Light and shadow
Please note we have set a limit this year of THREE photos per person per category
You have from now until the 31st August to submit your photos. Judging will take place during September with the winners displayed at the Show on 19th September.
Send your jpg images to Cathryn by the end of August and try where possible to select the optimum quality file size your camera/phone will offer.
For your information , There will also be two open adult categories this year -
1 ) Garden plants and
2) Wildlife in the garden.
We have also decided to once again award the children's photography cup (given by the Lambeth's) to the best photograph in the open children's photography competition. The children's categories will be:
a)Nature seen through a lens and
b)A beautiful view.
June 2026 Rainy Renishaw
The Spring 2026 Plant Sale Photos

The queue is building
Are we ready?
The Swinging Sale




Picked over but still selling



Our rainy visit to Renishaw Gardens June 2026




Head Gardener, David Kesteven gave an informed and amusing tour.
Flowering cornus.



Admiring the Echiums.
Flower of the Cytisus Battanderi - Pineapple Broom
Carpenderia Californica



Scottish Flame flower - beauty or beast?.
The amazing
Magnolia macrophylla
The Spring 2025 Plant Sale



The new arrangement of the tables with two check-outs and pricing using sticks




DLH Carnival 21 June 2025
******The Society sold over £300 worth of plants for Carnival Funds.********
The winner of the Name the Duck was Nigel Pick who chose the name "Queenie" (---of course what else could it have been!).
This is Lucas receiving his Dad's prize.
Our "National Flower" Quiz results are here.
A Great Celebration September 2024
Thanks to everyone






Visitors and helpers at the Spring 2024 plant sale
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Looking back to our Garden and Home Celebration 2023
Thank you to everyone who came along with their entries and congratulations to everyone on such a great standard of produce.
Thanks also to Ian our auctioneer, and everyone who joined in the bidding.
See you next year!











Plant Sale 2023













For further information about our Society, please contact Cathryn Frost, either by phone (01629 534066) or by email - Cathryn Frost <cathfrost1000@gmail.com>
