Mid Devon Show Flower & Garden Marquee

The theme of this year's show is Conserve & Preserve.  If anyone has any ideas how the garden club can interpret this into their display please email tivertongardenclub@hotmail.co.uk Any ideas will be gratefully received.

Gardeners Question Time success

Over 150 keen gardeners packed the Tiverton Community Arts Theatre for Radio 4's recording of Gardeners' Question Time on Wednesday.

Eric Robson was chairman with Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Biggs and Anne Swithenbank the panel of experts delivering the answers to the chosen from the audience.

Four Garden Club members were lucky enough to have their question picked and were given the chance to read it out.  The panellists were challenged on a couple of questions but bounced ideas around and the answers will be listed on the Radio 4 website once the programme has been aired.

The recording will be aired on Friday 20th June & repeated on Sunday 22nd June.

May Coffee Morning

 Members enjoying a chat over a coffee at the May Coffee Morning.

The team in the kitchen

Treasurer Carol with raffle sellers Sue & Maureen

GQT Panellists announced

For those of you interested in knowing who the panellists are at the forthcoming recording of The Radio 4 show Gardeners Question Time, we found out today. They are Anne Swithenbank, Matt Biggs & Pippa Greenwood.

Tickets are available from JTs Partyhouse at £3 to include a hot drink.

April's meeting with Bert & his Pelies

Old friend and regular visitor Bert Jewell from Crediton came and talked about his beloved Pelargoniums which had successfully grown and shown over several years.

March's meeting with the Devon Wildlife Trust

A representative from The Devon Wildlife Trust came and talked about the Wild Side of Exeter and show photos from bird nests set up in very urban area.  She also showed photos of areas where wild flowers on the hedgerows and sides of busy roads had been allowed to grow.  She was very knowledgeable.

Press Release

BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time with

 Tiverton Garden Club

Wednesday 28^th May 2014.

Doors open 5.30pm. Recording starts 6.30pm.

Tiverton Community Arts Theatre, Tiverton High School, Bolham Road,

Tiverton, EX16 6SQ.

On Wednesday 28^th May, BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time records a programme at the Tiverton Community Arts Centre.

The celebrated panel of gardening experts will be tackling the questions put to them by local gardening enthusiasts, with Eric Robson in the chair.

Gardeners’ Question Time is a Radio 4 institution, attracting over 2 million listeners a week. Recorded in a different location each week, this long-standing radio programme has answered well over 30,000 questions since its inception in 1947.

The panel members have been guests of a diverse range of gardening clubs and other organisations; including a telecommunications call centre and the London Transport Museum.

The panel NEVER see the questions before the recording.  Their encyclopaedic, seemingly effortless answers are completely spontaneous and reveal their huge experience and depth of gardening knowledge. Being on the GQT panel is not for the faint hearted!

Hosted by Tiverton Garden Club.

Tickets cost £3.00 and will be available at the next Club meeting on Tuesday 29th April

Tickets are available for non- members

to purchase from JT’s Partyhouse,

Market Walk, Bampton Street, Tiverton, EX16 6BL.