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More Photos of the Square

Posted in Gardens, Photography on Thursday April 24, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Many thanks to Lewis Noble for emailing the following:

Here’s a few pics I took of the woodland that Dorothy Littlewood looks after. She’s been working really hard and the daffs look great!

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Gardening Posts….?

Posted in About this site, Gardens on Monday April 21, 2008| 2 Comments »

Would anyone be interested in regular posts relating to gardening? For example, we could include:

 Let us know if you’d be interested……!

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The Square in bloom

Posted in Gardens, People, Photography on Monday April 21, 2008| 2 Comments »

We would like to thank Dorothy for all the hard work she has put into creating a woodland garden on the Parish Council land in front of Parwich Hall.

The Parish Council were bold enough to go for this land in the centre of the village when it came up for auction a couple of years ago, and Dorothy certainly rose to the challenge of maintaining it. (more…)

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Chatsworth Plant Fair

Posted in Events, Gardens, Out & About on Saturday April 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »

For the gardeners please note, there is a plant fair selling rare and unusual plants at Stables Hill, Chatsworth from 11am to 5pm on Sunday 20th April. Admission to the plant fair is free, but the normal parking charges apply. However don’t forget the plant fair next weekend at Culland Hall in aid of Mid Derbyshire Association for Mobile Physiotherapy. If you just want to go to one, go to Culland Hall as it is nearer and in aid of a good cause.

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Planting Summer Containers

Posted in Events, Gardens, Societies on Wednesday April 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »

The WI meeting this Thursday 17th April, 7-30pm at the Memorial Hall, is a talk and practical demonstration on

Planting Summer Containers
by Sarah Rhodes of Leatherbritches Nursery

Sarah is a most entertaining speaker, has lots of ideas and hopefully will also have plants and some containers on sale at the end.  Non-WI members are welcome.

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Horticultural Committee Meeting Tonight

Posted in Gardens, Societies on Friday April 4, 2008| 1 Comment »

Tonight, Friday there is a committee meeting for the Horticultural Society – 7.30pm at Nia’s.

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Horticultural Society Pages on this Site

Posted in Gardens, Societies on Sunday March 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »

We are experimenting with possible formats for pages for local groups. We can either create pages using the blogging software (WordPress) that generates most of PARWICH.ORG, or we can create them as more traditional web pages.

Click here to see an example of some pages made with the WordPress blogging software for the Horticultural Society.

We would welcome your thoughts on how this works, and whether other local groups might be interested in something similar for themselves?

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Lea Rhododendron Gardens

Posted in Gardens, Out & About, Societies on Friday March 21, 2008| 1 Comment »

Today I went across to Lea Gardens near Tansley to get the Horticultural Society’s two season tickets, and was surprised to see how many of the earlier azaleas and rhododendrons are already in flower.

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New pages added for Horticultural Society.

Posted in Gardens, Societies on Sunday December 9, 2007| Leave a Comment »

We have added a sub-section of the site dedicated to the Horticultural Society. It can be reached from the “Directory” section (see top of page), or by clicking here.

If you would like to have a section of this site dedicated to your local group or society, then please get in touch.

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Church Cottage in The English Garden magazine.

Posted in Gardens, News on Monday November 26, 2007| Leave a Comment »

In the December edition of The English Garden, you’ll find a sumptuous full colour photo-feature on the garden at Church Cottage.

The same feature also appears in the January edition of the US version of the magazine, with Church Cottage promoted to the front cover. (Unfortunately, Lynette and Richard have had to play second fiddle to Highgrove in the UK version!)

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