Upcoming events
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Tuesday 27th January – 7:30pm start WI Hall Newton Ferrers
Chris Trimmer – Plant Conservation Centre Manager
Chris has 37 years’ experience growing plants with extensive knowledge of conservation growing techniques from seed sowing to grafting and everything in between. He has developed training programs for the National Trust around propagation. Plant Hunting experience in India and extensive cultivated plant knowledge.
His talk will be about how the Plant Conservation works to conserve the National Trust’s ‘Living Collection’.
Tuesday 24th February – 7:30pm start WI Hall Newton Ferrers
Mandy Barber from Incredible Vegetables
Incredible Vegetables is an experimental vegetable growing project and a research space dedicated to useful perennial edibles and future food crops, as well a perennial vegetable nursery. It was set up by Mandy and Julien Skinner near Ashburton. She will introduce us to perennial edibles and how to grow them.
Tuesday 31st March – 7:30pm start WI Hall Newton Ferrers
Toby Buckland – How to be a better gardener.
Toby will give an enlightening talk from his own experience in horticulture.
Saturday May tbc – Plant and Cake Sale 10am to 12pm
Yealm Cottage Newton Hill Newton Ferrers – opposite the Post Office.
Tuesday 29th September – 7:30pm start WI Hall Newton Ferrers
Saul Walker – My Plant Obsessions Part 4: Ornamental Gingers
Saul is a well known speaker to the YGS. He is returning with plants to introduce us to growing Ornamental Gingers. You will learn how to grow them, how to get them through the winter and how to propagate them. There will be gingers from Saul’s collection for sale.
Tuesday 27th October – 7:30pm start WI Hall Newton Ferrers
AGM & Talk by Jeremy Wilson – Scented Garden
Jeremy runs Strete Gate Camellias, a small nursery near Dartmouth. His talk will follow the AGM.
Tuesday 24th November – 7:30pm start WI Hall Newton Ferrers
Ric Johnson – Garden Assessments: Interpreting and Improving Your Garden
“Over the years my working experience has covered a wide range of horticultural roles, each one has expanded my gardening knowledge and helped to hone my design skills and techniques. Some of my earlier garden design and development work was in large private gardens, one of which opens on the National Garden Scheme and has been quoted as being ‘the best garden in North Devon’. I have always loved the outdoors and I am enthusiastic about developing and designing garden spaces for people to enjoy.’
Using analysis subjects from site assessments and surveys, this talk looks at various factors and features that can influence your gardens growing conditions. It provides information that people can take away and use in developing their own garden.
Yealm Gardens Society 