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

Blickling Hall

Photos from our visit to Blickling Hall, Norfolk

Annual Holiday to Norfolk

A great success is the conclusion from members who went on this year's holiday to Norfolk. We stayed in Great Yarmouth at the Burlington Palm Hotel on North Drive. A family run hotel.

Here are some of the many many photos we took at the gardens we visited:

Philip's coach at Felbrigg Hall

The walled garden at Felbrigg

Felbrigg Hall

Bressingham Gardens

Dingly Dell

The Gallopers

White Deer at Houghton Hall

Art in the walled garden at Houghton Hall

Fire & Water

Garden Visit to Compton Castle

The Club's June visit was to south Devon and the National Trust property of Compton Castle. A romantic fortified house was built over 500 years ago. Members are seen here enjoying the courtyard garden in the afternoon sunshine and in the rose and knot gardens.

And afternoon tea was enjoyed at Castle Barton opposite: