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Flaxdale Garden & Art Exhibition
Posted in Arts, Gardens on Monday June 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Tombola Prizes for Sunday
Posted in Competition, Gardens, Young people on Monday June 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Will Beesely is doing the Horticultural Society’s tombola for Open Gardens on Sunday and would be grateful for any prizes. Please either drop them off at Knob Hall or ring Will on 318 and he will collect them.
Wanted
Posted in Arts, Gardens on Friday June 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Hot water boiler
Does anyone have a Hot water boiler they can lend Mike & Gill R for their fund raising charity event at Flaxdale House on 18thJune? Perhaps someone might know the whereabouts of the old water boiler from the Memorial Hall? If anyone has any ideas please telephone 390433.
Bric-à-brac
If anyone has any suitable items that would otherwise go to a charity shop, we could put them on our bric-à-brac stall at our fund raising charity event at Flaxdale House on 18th June. Any unsold items will be sent to a charity shop. Do call us on 390433 if you can help.
Thank you so much, Mike & Gill
Click on the poster to enlarge.
Flaxdale Garden & Art Exhibition
Posted in 2011, Arts, Gardens, People, Posts of Note on Friday June 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Flaxdale Garden and Art Exhibition
Saturday 18th June, 10am to 6pm
Every year we make a great effort to try and get our gardens presentable for visitors to the village on Open Gardens day. This year we have decided to make the most of all our hard work and open our garden the day before Open Gardens day as well, i.e. on June 18th, to help raise funds for the DRCS, a local charity.
In the current climate DRCS (Derwent Rural Counselling Service) like many other charities, is finding it increasingly hard to make ends meet and risks having to cut the service it offers local people. We do hope you will be able to come, any time between 10am and 6pm to enjoy yourselves and at the same time enable DRCS to keep on with its good work supporting people in the area.
There will be an exhibition of original paintings by Gill, Gill Evans, Dorothy Littlewood, Evie Burlinson and Janis Castledine, who have all very kindly agreed to donate 25% of any sales to the charity. In addition we will have stalls for bric-à-brac, books and plants. There will also be a raffle.
The entry fee of £3 will entitle visitors to their first drink (tea, coffee, fruit juice or ‘bubbly’) plus a slice of cake. (We will not be doing cream teas!)
We have no idea how many will turn up, but we are promoting this event widely around the county and hope to attract a possibly different range of visitors from those who come regularly each year to the village Open Gardens event. Maybe some who visit Flaxdale garden on the 18th will be tempted to return the next day to visit all the other Parwich Open Gardens.
Thank you so very much for your support. If you can’t visit us on the 18th then you are most welcome to come another day to see the garden and paintings and any small donation to DRCS would be gratefully received.
With best wishes,
Mike & Gill R at Flaxdale House
Parwich Open Gardens
Posted in Gardens, Societies on Tuesday June 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Can You Help Out?
Posted in Gardens on Tuesday May 31, 2011| 3 Comments »
Sue H has passed us the following request:
I have just taken on an allotment and can’t dig it all in one go! Does anyone have any old carpet or black plastic to spare or to borrow? My number is 334.
Flaxdale Garden & Art Exhibition – 18th June
Posted in Arts, Gardens on Saturday May 28, 2011| 1 Comment »
Trip to Harlow Carr
Posted in Events, Gardens, Societies on Thursday May 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A great day was had at RHS Harlow Carr at Harrogate. Thank you to JF-S for taking the photos, which show some of the group enjoying a tour of the gardens. A big thank you to Rebecca for organising the trip on behalf of the Horticultural Society.
The next trip is to Felley Priory Gardens and Hebb’s Farmhouse on Wednesday 13th July. Please book your tickets through Rebecca (318)
Harlow Carr Tomorrow
Posted in Gardens on Tuesday May 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Just a quick reminder to those people who have booked to go on the trip to RHS Harlow Carr, tomorrow. Please meet on The Green at 9am.
Why not open your garden?
Posted in Gardens on Sunday May 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Culland Hall Plant Fair & Open Gardens 2011
Posted in Gardens on Thursday May 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Everything’s coming up roses at Culland Hall
Annual Specialist Plant Fair and Open Gardens moves date to show Blooms at their best
SUNDAY 19th JUNE 2011, 11am – 4pm
The Specialist Plant Fair, held in aid of the Mid-Derbyshire Association for Mobile Physiotherapy, has become an annual treat for garden lovers. A hand-picked selection of over twenty specialist Nurseries and R.H.S. Exhibitors will offer rare and unusual plants for sale, alongside garden-related gifts, French Garden Accessories and antiques.
The Gardens will be open from 11am to 4pm on Sunday 19th June 2011. Home-made cakes and refreshments will be on sale for those wishing to sit and relax within the 19th Century walled kitchen gardens.
Entrance: £3.50. Children Free. Disabled facilities. Free Car Park.
Also on the same day – Parwich Open Gardens 2-6pm.
Visit Culland Hall in the morning and spend the afternoon in Parwich
After one of the harshest Winters for many years, the magnificent gardens at Culland Hall, nestled in their parkland setting near Ashbourne in Derbyshire are finally coming into bloom. (more…)
Harlow Carr – Last Chance
Posted in Events, Gardens, Societies on Thursday May 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Last Chance to get tickets for the Horticultural Society trip to Harlow Carr on Wednesday 24th May.
There are still a few spaces left on this trip leaving at 9am, returning approx 6.30pm. The cost is £8 to members and a further £2 for the guided tour which is optional. Please let Rebecca know by Monday 9th May as we may swap to a smaller coach and then there will be no more spaces. Deposits of £5 to Rebecca at Knob Hall 390318.
Harlow Carr is the Royal Horticultural Society’s northern garden. Rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolia’s should be a highlight at this time of the year. As well as extensive gardens, there is a shop, plant centre and Betty’s Tearooms.Would you like to open your garden?
Posted in Gardens, Societies on Wednesday May 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Dorothy’s Bluebell Wood
Posted in 2011, Gardens, Photography, Posts of Note on Monday May 2, 2011| 2 Comments »
Dorothy L’s wooded area has once again been glorious. The daffodil display was spectacular and now we have the treat of the bluebells. For those lucky enough to wander through the meandering paths, there is a special peaceful feel to the place. The sunlight dappling though the leaves onto the flowers below is magical. Dorothy kindly allowed our roving reporter to take some pictures. Click on each image to enlarge it.
Click on ‘Continue reading’ for more pictures.
Parwich Open Gardens – A date for your diary
Posted in Events, Gardens, Societies on Wednesday April 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Film tonight and two great trips for the summer
Posted in Films, Gardens, Societies on Thursday March 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Deposits for the trips to Harlow Carr and/or Felley Priory and Hebb’s farmhouse can be paid to Rebecca tonight at the film show.
Two great trips
Wednesday 25th May – RHS Harlow Carr – departure 9am
Harlow Carr is the Royal Horticultural Society’s northern garden. Rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias should be a highlight at this time of year. As well as the extensive gardens there is a shop and plant centre and Betty’s Café tea rooms.
We can offer this trip to society members at the bargain price of £8! Entry is free, as the society is affiliated to the RHS. There will be an additional charge of £2 for those wishing to have a tour. Non members can either join the society at a cost of £2 or pay the entry fee of £7.50 ( free to RHS members).
Wednesday 13th July – Felley Priory and Hebb’s Farmhouse – departure 9.30am
In the morning we will visit Felley Priory Gardens in Nottinghamshire (left) a private garden and plant nursery. We will have lunch there and then there is a short drive to Hebb’s farmhouse, Stuart Dixon’s garden. Stuart gave a talk to the society in 2009 and he will show us round his garden; followed by tea and scones.
The cost for this trip is £10, it includes tea and scones at Hebb’s Farmhouse and and entry to both gardens. If however you are an RHS member, entry into Felley Priory is free and the total cost of the trip will be reduced to £7.00.
In order to keep transport costs to a minimum, from April 1st these trips will be opened to non society members. Please can members pay their £5 deposit by Thursday 31st March to secure a place.
Please let Rebecca Jordan, Knob Hall, have your payments. These details and forms have been delivered to all society members.
Parwich and District Horticultural Society News
Posted in Films, Flora, Gardens, Out & About, Societies on Monday March 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Final call for any members wanting to go on the trips to RHS Harlow Carr on Wednesday 25th May and Felley Priory and Hebb’s farmhouse on Wednesday 13th July. Please pay your deposits to Rebecca Jordan, Knob Hall, by the end of this month; after which we will open up the seats to non members to ensure we can fill the coaches. If you are coming to our film show on Thursday, Rebecca will collect deposits there.
Two great trips
Posted in Events, Gardens, Societies on Thursday March 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Wednesday 25th May – RHS Harlow Carr – departure 9am
Harlow Carr is the Royal Horticultural Society’s northern garden. Rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias should be a highlight at this time of year. As well as the extensive gardens there is a shop and plant centre and Betty’s Café tea rooms.
We can offer this trip to society members at the bargain price of £8! Entry is free, as the society is affiliated to the RHS. There will be an additional charge of £2 for those wishing to have a tour. Non members can either join the society at a cost of £2 or pay the entry fee of £7.50 ( free to RHS members).
Wednesday 13th July – Felley Priory and Hebb’s Farmhouse – departure 9.30am
In the morning we will visit Felley Priory Gardens in Nottinghamshire (left) a private garden and plant nursery. We will have lunch there and then there is a short drive to Hebb’s farmhouse, Stuart Dixon’s garden. Stuart gave a talk to the society in 2009 and he will show us round his garden; followed by tea and scones (included in the price). £3 entrance to each garden, although Felley Priory is free to individuals who are RHS members
The cost for this trip is £10 including tea and scones at Hebb’s Farmhouse. Members of the RHS can get into Felley Priory for free and the cost to them is £7.00.
In order to keep transport costs to a minimum we will be making up numbers with non society members; as members will have priority we are asking them to pay a deposit of £5 per person for each trip by 31st March to secure a place.
Please let Rebecca Jordan, Knob Hall, have your payments. These details and forms have been delivered to all society members.
Leatherbritches Nursery – New Stuff
Posted in Gardens on Saturday November 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Now in:
- Winter Baskets
- Winter pansy-viola-heathers
- Wallflowers and Cyclamen
Also, loose spring bulbs.
Plus lots more……
Orders being taken for holly wreaths and holly crosses.
Call in and see Bill or Ann, or phone on 390571 / 07713 743295.
Online book of Open Gardens
Posted in 2010, Gardens, Photography, Posts of Note on Wednesday November 10, 2010| 1 Comment »
Audrey, a friend of Mike & Kevin’s in America , visited Parwich over an Open Garden Weekend. She so enjoyed the day that she has produced an online book of the afternoon. It is a delightful snapshot of the day, with some magical photos. Click here to enjoy the story. The photo below is a sample page from the book, by clicking on any page you can enlarge that photo.
A Garden Shot
Posted in Gardens, Photography on Saturday October 30, 2010| Leave a Comment »
‘Apples with altitude’
Posted in Flora, Gardens on Saturday October 30, 2010| 1 Comment »
A resident of Ecton is undertaking a survey of varieties of apple trees cultivated in our general area, and several Parwich residents have asked us to post her questionnaire here. If you are interested in participating click here to down load the questionnaire.
It should be completed by the 5th of November, and you can give it to Jackie Battell in Parwich for dropping off.
To see the researcher’s covering letter (more…)
Crab Apples
Posted in Flora, Gardens, Photography on Friday October 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Horticultural Society date changes
Posted in Gardens, Societies on Monday October 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Parwich & District Horticultural Society
- The Bob Matthews Quiz is to be postponed it till Thurs 21st Oct at the Sycamore Inn. More details will follow soon.
- Also the AGM date has been changed as it was set for Bonfire night. It will now be Fri 12th Nov instead with a 7pm start in the Memorial Hall.
New in at Leatherbritches Nursery…
Posted in Classified adverts, Gardens on Saturday September 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »
New stock now in, including:
- winter pansy
- winter viola
- primulas
- heathers
- a large selection of ‘pick your own’ loose spring bulls (daffs, tulips, alliums etc.)
Bill also has handmade oak tubs and ½ oak barrels.
There’s lots more, so why not call in, everyone is welcome and locals are often treated to tea/coffee and a biscuit!
For enquiries / more info call Bill on 390571 / 07713 743295.
Landscaping of the Memorial Hall
Posted in 2010, Gardens, Memorial hall, Posts of Note, Societies on Friday August 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Today the planting was completed (well almost) at the Memorial Hall. There are 8 plants outstanding, which will be planted when the grass seeding is done in September. All bar one of the beds has been muched and this final one will be covered over the weekend, once we have planted the hundreds of snowdrops that were donated by different people in the village.
It is super to see the final phase completed ready for the Official Opening on the 25th September, to which everyone is invited. Again a huge thank you has to go to the Horticultural Society for their massive financial contribution towards the planting and to those individuals and groups that donated the 5 trees.
Hanging Basket Competition
Posted in 2010, Gardens, Posts of Note, Societies on Wednesday August 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Horticultural Society is very grateful to Bill Whitfield of Leatherbritches Nursery for kindly judging the baskets at 17 houses. It was good to see such a fine display. Here are the four that Bill considered were the best.
Joint 1st prize – Jack Cundy, Main Street
Joint 1st prize – Ben and Jane Bennett, Croft Avenue
2nd prize – Margaret and Roy Lynam, Rathbone Croft
3rd Prize – Wendy and Larry Birds, Lenscliffe
Michael Hart, P&DHS Secretary
Hanging Basket Competition – judging this week
Posted in Gardens, Societies on Monday August 2, 2010| 1 Comment »
Specialist Plant Fair – this Sunday
Posted in Events, Gardens on Monday July 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
If of interest – don’t foget there will be a Specialist Plant Fair at Osmaston Park on 25 July 2010.
The fair will open from 10am-4pm.
Admission is £2.00, with a percentage of proceeds being donated to the PEAK DISTRICT MOUNTAIN RESCUE ORGANISATION.
Refreshments will be available.
Further details are available on www.flowerpowerfairs.co.uk, or call 07730 859441.
Specialist Plant Fair
Posted in Events, Gardens on Thursday July 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Although not in our immediate area this might be of interest….
There will be a Specialist Plant Fair at Osmaston Park on 25 July 2010.
The fair will open from 10am-4pm.
Admission is £2.00, with a percentage of proceeds being donated to the PEAK DISTRICT MOUNTAIN RESCUE ORGANISATION.
Refreshments will be available.
Further details are available on www.flowerpowerfairs.co.uk, or call 07730 859441.
£1350 raised by Open Gardens
Posted in 2010, Gardens, Posts of Note, Societies on Monday June 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Open gardens was a fabulous success with many folks making the most of the weather, the great new Memorial Hall, the beautiful gardens and the tasty cream teas.
Over £800 was taken on the door and the day netted over £1350. This is money that will be used by the society to benefit local causes with a horticultural bent, as a thank you to the village for putting up with the disruption of Open Gardens.
Those who were involved in the cream teas worked incredibly hard all day and really appreciated the new kitchen. The new Hall looked stunning with the tables decked with checked table cloths and flowers. The displays from the children were super, but unfortunately entries were well down on previous years despite the monetary rewards. With the doors opening out on to the patio many visitors were able to enjoy the new seating area.
The committee would like to express their thanks to all those who opened their gardens and made the day such a success.
Flowers and Vegetables
Posted in Gardens, People on Tuesday June 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Sam Flowers’ garden, a wonderful array of vegetables that would be the envy of many. A little bird has whispered that Sam celebrated his 92 last week and is probably the most senior man in the village.
Thanks to JF-S
Parwich Open Gardens – Photo Gallery #2
Posted in 2010, Events, Gardens, Photography, Posts of Note on Monday June 21, 2010| 1 Comment »
Here is the second photo gallery showcasing seven more of the stunning gardens on display in Parwich last Sunday. The sunny weather ensured the gardens were seen at their best.
Please click on each image to enlarge it.
Garden #3 – Wheatsheaf Cottage
Parwich Open Gardens – Photo Gallery #1
Posted in 2010, Events, Gardens, Photography, Posts of Note on Sunday June 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Here is the first of several photo galleries of Sunday’s Open Gardens and Childrens’ Horticultural Show. The weather remained fine and sunny throughout, ensuring that plenty of visitors turned up to enjoy the fourteen gardens on display. This was also the first major public event to take place in our new Memorial Hall, and trade was brisk throughout the afternoon, with many people opting to take advantage of the sunny patio area on the south side of the building.
Please click on each image to enlarge it.
Garden #6 – Orchard Farm.
(more…)
Photos for sale.
Posted in Flora, Gardens, Photography on Saturday June 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
To coincide with Parwich Open Gardens, a selection of floral photographs are being put on sale. These photographs have all been taken in Parwich, and they can be purchased framed or unframed. All proceeds will be donated to Parwich Horticultural Society.
The photographs can be viewed and purchased in the Memorial Hall on Sunday afternoon. Additional copies can be ordered, using the order forms provided in the hall. Alternatively, you can place your orders by calling Kevin on 390503.
A limited number of early orders can be processed on Sunday. All other orders will be processed by Sunday June 27th.
Price list.
Framed (small): £20
Framed (standard): £23
Framed (large square): £25
Unframed: £6
Unframed prints will fit a standard 6 x 8 inch picture frame. (Those from John Lewis at least!)
Other sizes (full A4, full A3 etc) are available by request.
There are six photos in total: euphorbia, lily, poppy, rose, sidalcea and iris. (more…)
Open Gardens Tomorrow
Posted in Gardens, Societies on Saturday June 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Where am I? What am I?
Posted in Gardens on Saturday June 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
On Sunday at the Open Gardens (2-6pm), see if you can see this little fellow. He really is quite obvious in one of the gardens.
Tombola Prizes
Posted in Gardens on Monday June 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »
William B is running the Horticultural Society tombola at Open Gardens. All donations of prizes would be very welcome. Please leave them at Knob Hall or contact Will on 318 and he will collect them.
More blooms
Posted in Flora, Gardens on Monday June 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Only a few weeks ago it seemed everything was behind, now people might be worrying that everything will be over before Open Gardens later in the month on Sunday 20th June. Thank you to Mike G for this photo of a Weigela ‘Victoria’.
Shades of blue
Posted in Flora, Gardens on Sunday June 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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