Sweet Peas by Phillip Kerton

Our first meeting of the Autumn season saw Phillip Kerton and his wife Joyce from Bridgwater visit the club to talk with a passion about sweet peas.

He gave a good crowd of members a history of how he started to grow sweet peas to show and then start his specialist nursery. He explained how he growed and cared for them and then arranged them at the various Flower Shows throughout the season including Chelsea.

After his talk he answered members questions about soil content and storing of seeds and other growing tips.

New Season starts next Tuesday

Philip Kerton from Bridgewater will visit the Club on Tusday 1st September to discuss how to grow Sweet Peas. We meet at 7.30pm at the Memorial Hall, Angel Hill.

The Autumn Flower Show takes place on Saturday 5th September at The New Hall, Barrington Street. Entry forms should be with the Show Secretary by Wednesday 2nd September.

Anniversary Tours lunch at Barnstaple

Here are just a few photos taken at the Anniversary lunch in Barnstaple taken by Ros Nichols & Val Payne. The lunch was in celebration of 10 years of successful holidays organised by the present sub committee.

Garden Visit to RHS Garden Rosemoor

For August the Club took a scenic drive through the Devon countryside to visit RHS Garden Rosemoor in North Devon. The sun shone all day and members enjoyed the flowers, plants and landscape. Here are few photos taken on the day.

Mid Devon Show Exhibit

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After a very wet week in the run up to the show we were ready to set up on the Friday morning. Vehicles were packed and ready to assemble our exhibit. When we arrived at the showground at 9am on the Friday we were told the show had been cancelled. Two hours later we had a phone call to say it was on again.

So after a false start we arrived at the showground at around 12 noon and in just over 3 hours our team had done a wonderful job of creating a typical back garden with a strong recycling theme.

With thanks to the design team : Ros & Tim Nichols; Janet & Peter Billing ; John & Jean Bennett and Mary Smith & Carol Beer.

Grateful thanks to Andy Hilton of Hilton Carpet Service for providing the van to carry everything from the garden shed door to trays of plants both on the Friday in the mud and on Saturday evening when everything was dismantled.

Many thanks to Ann Crawford and Ken Howe for providing cut flowers and pot plants and to various members for providing greenery.

Garden Visit to Marwood Gardens

July's garden visit was to Marwood Gardens in North Devon.

Peter & Sue Sharpin kindly provided the photos:

Sandringham

Photos from our visit to Sandringham, Norfolk

The church at Sandringham

Monica admiring a planted urn

Carol & Norma with the golden budda

The west garden at Sandringham

The lake with the house in the background