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13th April 2010 (Members’ Plant Sale) The Apothecaries’ Garden: an introduction to
Chelsea Physic Garden - Christine Hodgson Christine is
a journalist and teacher and worked for some 14 years as Head of Communications
and Publicity at the University of East London.
For the past four years she has been a volunteer at Chelsea Physic
Garden. She says that her own garden is
“the scene of a constant struggle against next door’s bindweed”! I think it should be an entertaining and
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My time in Captivity and the
resultant World Garden - Tom Hart Dyke This will be a really different
talk to end our season! Tom follows a tradition of Victorian and Edwardian British plant
hunters who risked life and limb to acquire rare species of plant. In 2000
Tom was kidnapped by the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia People’s Army in the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia while hunting for
rare orchids, a plant for which
he has a particular passion. He and his travel companion were held captive for
nine months and threatened with death. He kept himself going by creating a
design for a garden containing plants collected on his trips, laid out in the
shape of a world map according to their continent of origin. Come and enjoy what, by all accounts, will be
a lively evening.
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Well Dressing in Derbyshire - Brian Yetts Brian was born in Essex (what he calls
God’s own county!). He originally
trained as a mechanical engineer but some 25 years ago he changed direction and
traded as ‘Brian Handyman’! His interests are many and varied including
gardening and photography. He is a
life-long supporter of Southend United FC but then I suppose someone has to be! Just joking Brian. . |
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Wildwood to Cream Teas - the
Story of Grimsthorpe Park - Ray Biggs Ray has been associated with the
historic house environment since 1989.
Currently he manages the visitor programme for the Grimsthorpe and
Drummond Castle Trust in Lincolnshire and Perthshire. Prior to this he was with the National Trust
in Derbyshire and Staffordshire. He has
recently returned from a lecture tour in the Netherlands. |
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14th December 2010 - Charity Evening -
Havering Horticultural Disability Project Barnsdale - The Television Years
to 1996 - Nick Hamilton Now, here is a chance to reminisce! Most of us will remember Geoff Hamilton and
Gardeners’ World from Barnsdale, well his son will be entertaining us this
evening and will be bringing with him some plants for sale. Sit back and enjoy yourselves. |
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11th January 2011 Annual General Meeting The Future for Allotments - Richard
Wiltshire Richard Wiltshire is the co-author of
Growing in the Community, the official good practice guide for managing
allotments for local authorities and allotment associations, published in its
Second Edition by the Local Government Association in 2008. He has been
involved with managing the Allotments Regeneration Initiative since 2002, and
advises the board of the Federation on City Farms and Community Gardens on allotment
issues. An allotment gardener since 1981, Richard took his own site in Dartford
into self-management and ran it through the 1990s. He teaches Geography at
King's College London, and his research includes studies of allotment gardening
in the UK, Europe and Japan with particular reference to political and
environmental issues and the value of allotments to people in later life. |