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Planting Summer Containers

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

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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

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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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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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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