Newsletter – February 2025

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ORLETON AND DISTRICT GARDENING CLUB

FEBRUARY 2025 NEWSLETTER

Welcome To:

  • New members:    Sue Doolan and Joyce Stanbury from Luston, Lucey VanDenBergh from Orleton and Anne Dobson and Janice Tandy from Yarpole.
  • Thanks to:            Nancy Morgan and Gerry Summers for this month’s refreshments and those members who help set and tidy up the Hall on the evening.

Thank you to all those who have put their names on the rota for refreshments for the rest of the year.  Tea, coffee and sugar are provided by the Club – please let Monica know if supplies are running low – but we would ask that you supply milk, biscuits and tea towels.  Please see Gail for reimbursement.

Don’t Forget:

  • Your Membership Subscription was due in January. Cost £15 including refreshments.  Please see our Treasurer – Gail Scott – to collect your card or renew.
  • Please remember the new ways of paying:
  • BACS is preferable:

Orleton and District Gardening Club

Lloyds Bank

30-99-08

22530268

  • We also now have a card reader so payment can be made that way
  • Although we would prefer payment was not made by cheque or cash, we will obviously still accept these, especially for the raffle, club sales and plant stall
  • This month’s speaker is Adam Alexander on “The Accidental Plant Breeder”

Club dinner – 11th March – The Oak Wigmore:

Once again, we are returning to The Oak at Wigmore.  The menu and form are already on our website. Click here for details

Please let Monica have your menu choice either by email, on club night or by 4th March by post – Arrow Heights, Leominster, HR6 8QE

Payment by BACS is preferable

Plant Sale and plant pots:

Our annual plant sale is on the 18th May and we should be starting to think of what we can grow and donate for it.  Tomatoes and vegetables always very popular.

However, we are always in need of donations plant pots, especially 5”, 1 and 2 litre pots

Orleton Village Fete – 14th June:

We have been asked again to have a stall at the Village Fete.  We will probably plant a pot/pots for a raffle and will hold over any plants left after our own plant sale.

We will be looking for volunteers to help on the day.

The funds raised at this Fete benefit us all as a share of the proceeds goes to the upkeep of the Village Hall.

August Show – 16th August:

Work on the Schedule is nearly finalised and although published on the website, the booklet format needs some reworking. However, those of you who are keen to practise your skills for Section E Cookery, the A4 version – click here gives the recipes on pages 11 to 16.

Next meeting:

Our speaker on 25th March is Ros Bissell on “Moors Meadow past and present”

Monica