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New at Leatherbritches
Posted in Classified adverts, Gardens on Saturday April 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Garden Trip
Posted in Gardens, Uncategorized on Saturday April 14, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The Parwich Horticultural Society is planning its first trip of the year to Morton Hall Gardens and Meadow Farm Nursery on Wednesday 30th May. Members and non-members are welcome, but places are limited and selling like hotcakes! So contact Glynis or Jill to reserve your place today. Details on the next trip will be coming soon.
From Jungle to Paradise
Posted in Gardens on Thursday April 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »
An Inspirational Talk and Slideshow about
Cascades Gardens
From Jungle to Paradise
Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s talk at the village hall. Alan Clements’ inspiring story took the audience on a journey from meeting the Dala Lama in the mid-1990s, to purchasing Cascades House in Bonsall and creating a truly magical garden, based on the concepts of Zen meditation, mindfulness, and achieving inner peace and happiness. The Horticultural Society also enjoyed sharing plants and seeds following the talk with fellow members and guests exchanging garden goodies as well as purchasing plants from Alan’s nursery at Casades Garden.
Thank you Alan Clements for his time and dedication to horticulture.
Caroline G
Horticultural Society Talk
Posted in Gardens, Uncategorized on Tuesday April 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Horticultural Society Talk
Posted in Gardens on Saturday April 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Horticultural Society Talk
Posted in Gardens on Tuesday March 13, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Horticultural Society Reminder
Posted in Gardens on Saturday February 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Parwich & District Horticultural Society. Membership £2-00 per person and should be return to me at Knab House or Jill Love at Wheatsheaf Cottage.
Many thanks
Jenny Letten
Monty’s Seed Exchange
Posted in Gardens, Two Feet on Tuesday February 13, 2018| 1 Comment »
As the days start to get longer and memories of my winter cruise sail off into the distance my attention starts to turn towards the garden once again. With Mrs Monty perusing the seed catalogs I’ve for once got in first and have received my seed order before her!
Having underestimated the number of seed potatoes in a bag I find myself with a surplus of Anyas. Anya is an early variety of potato grown exclusively for Sainsbury’s supermarkets by Albert Bartlett. Also most of the seed packets have many times more seeds than I’ll ever have room for, even allowing for failures, so as usual I’ll likely be left with rows of potted up young plants and half used packets of seeds.
I’m sure many others will be in the same position so how about a seed and plant swop and exchange? First up would anybody like to try growing a few Anyas?
If you’re interested let me know. Also if anybody has surplus seeds/plants over the next few months drop me an email via parwich@hotmail.co.uk or add a comment to my latest post.
Happy Gardening
Monty
Christmas at Leatherbritches
Posted in Classified adverts, Gardens on Saturday December 9, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Christmas at Leatherbritches
Posted in Classified adverts, Gardens on Sunday December 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Leatherbritches Nursery
Posted in Gardens on Monday November 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Leatherbritches Nursery
Posted in Gardens on Monday November 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Horticultural Society AGM
Posted in Gardens on Sunday October 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Don’t forget! The Society AGM is this Friday, 3rd November at 7.30pm in the Memorial Hall. Everyone is welcome whether a member or not.Suttons Garden Catalogues will be available for members with unique numbers which allow them to claim up to 50% discount on orders.There will be Social time after the meeting with refreshments.See you there!Sue Ash
Leatherbritches Nursery
Posted in Gardens on Monday October 23, 2017| 2 Comments »
Apple Pressing
Posted in Gardens on Monday October 9, 2017| 1 Comment »
Wondering if anyone has apples either being forgotten on trees or rotting on floor, than they didn’t mind donating to Cromford Apple Day. I’ll be there with the sister to the press in the below photo, happily making apple juice for all. On the same theme, if anyone in Parwich wants their own apples pressing into juice, just ask, Cheers Jon H
The Allotment Poll
Posted in Gardens, Parish Council on Tuesday September 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I ran a poll on here to coincide with National Allotments Week
The poll attracted 30 responses (thank you all!) with 13 saying they would like to have an allotment in the village.
There were 2 comments that added some good information and ideas for thoses interested.
The Parish Council Clerk provided some valuable information for those interested in an allotment –
“If residents would like to rent an allotment they should write to the Parish Council. If six residents write to a Parish Council requesting provision of allotments the Council is required to formally assess the level of demand.”
Then this great suggestion came from Saskia T –
“I wondered whether a third option of a ‘Community Allotment’ should also be considered: i.e. a shared allotment that could be used by a group of residents who don’t have a veg plot and would share the produce. Other growers in the village could share excess seedlings and excess produce (especially runners beans and marrows…). And if there is enough space: a few fruit trees? Perhaps pie (or should that be ‘pumpkin’) in the sky? The suggestion originates from a visit to an amazing community allotment project in a small hamlet in Australia”
So in conclusion, anyone interested in allotments should write to the Parish Council.
Monte
Watch Out!
Posted in Fauna, Gardens, Pets of Parwich, Photography on Saturday August 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »
National Allotments Week
Posted in Gardens, Sustainability on Monday August 14, 2017| 3 Comments »
Well if cats can have their day why not allotments!
The National Allotment Society is running this initiative to help protect, promote and preserve allotments. More information can be found here
At this point I should be asking, like with the cats, for pictures of your allotment. However as we don’t have any allotments that would be rather pointless! I can’t help looking at all those under-utilised sports fields and thinking would a corner of one of those be missed? So instead of pictures here’s a quick poll.
Two Feet Apart
Posted in Gardens, Two Feet on Monday August 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Having finally been reunited with my Y Not wellies and the weather looking a bit more like summer over the weekend I’ve at last managed to spend a few hours in the garden. As a sometimes keen but not so knowledgeable gardener it doesn’t take much to put me off at this time of the year. My return to the garden was just in time to bump into this little fellow –
It’s been a busy time in Parwich with both highly successful Wakes and Open Gardens. The commitees running both events do a fantastic job and deserve the thanks of us all. I found the gardens I visited during Open Gardens to be very inspiring with lots of ideas and expertese shared. I don’t remember if I learnt anything over Wakes. For more inspiration,
Free Woodchip
Posted in Classified adverts, Gardens on Thursday August 10, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Anyone requiring free wood chips to contact Tree Surgeon Paul Storer,
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Y NOT
Posted in Two Feet, Y-Not on Saturday July 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Gardens Trip this Friday
Posted in Gardens, Uncategorized on Tuesday July 11, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Due to cancellations 7 seats are available for this trip on Friday. Please contact Glynis on 390561 if you are interested.
Open Gardens 2017
Posted in Events, Gardens on Friday June 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Many thanks to Andy G who has sent in a raft of lovely photos of Sunday’s event. Here is a small selection:
Open Gardens Thank You
Posted in Events, Gardens on Tuesday June 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »
OPEN GARDENS
A great big thank-you to all those who opened their gardens yesterday. We mustn’t forget all those involved in the organisation of the day either.
We had an extremely successful event with just under 400 people attending, most of whom consumed a cream tea!
Although we do not as yet have a final net figure for the day, we are confident that we should have raised sufficient funds to help other organisations. A reminder to groups in the village that requests for funding must be submitted in writing by the AGM in November.
Finally, a thank-you to all villagers who obviously had made an effort to make Parwich even more attractive and then welcomed visitors, no doubt putting up with some inconvenience during the day.Horticultural Society Committee
A Few More Garden Photos
Posted in Events, Gardens on Monday June 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Open Gardens 2017
Posted in Events, Gardens on Monday June 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Thank you to Caroline G and Marion FS for these photos of yesterday’s event. A huge thank you to those who opened their gardens, some of whom are seen below enjoying a well earned bite to eat and a glass of wine after the gardens had closed.
Sunday’s Delight
Posted in Arts, Gardens on Saturday June 24, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Sunday Opening at the Legion
Posted in British Legion, Events, Gardens on Friday June 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Your Blog needs You!
Posted in Gardens, Photography on Wednesday June 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »
We need your help to collect as many photos of Open Gardens as we can. So if you are a garden owner, a visitor or an Horticultural committee member get your camera/smart phone out and get snapping on Sunday!
Don’t worry you don’t have to be David Bailey, as you can see from my shots below!
Please please please send any pictures you take around the gardens to parwich@hotmail.co.uk
There will be a prize for the best photo we receive!
Next Garden Trip
Posted in Gardens on Tuesday June 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Memorial Hall Garden Tidy
Posted in Gardens, Memorial hall on Friday June 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »
We are having a bit of a weed and prune round this Saturday between 10am and 12 noon ready for Open Gardens and Wakes week. If anybody has a bit of time to spare, we would love to see them and be eternally grateful.
Thank you Cheryl
Memorial Hall Garden Tidy
Posted in Gardens, Memorial hall on Thursday June 15, 2017| Leave a Comment »
We are having a bit of a weed and prune round this Saturday between 10am and 12 noon ready for Open Gardens and Wakes week. If anybody has a bit of time to spare, we would love to see them and be eternally grateful.
Thank you Cheryl
Two Weeks Today
Posted in Events, Gardens on Sunday June 11, 2017| Leave a Comment »
It is not too late to make the decision to open your garden or to exhibit your arts and crafts. Contact Fiona on 191 if you like to participate in this busy village event. Proceeds from Open Gardens enable PDHS to make donations to a wide range of village organisations and societies.
Parish Council Annual Reports
Posted in Bowls, Football, Gardens, Parish Council, Societies, Sport on Wednesday June 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Parish Council has published the Chairman’s Annual Report presented at the recent Parish Annual Meeting and the charts presented by the Responsible Financial Officer along with some explanatory notes.
Reports from the Bowls Club, Horticultural Society, Blog Team and Friday Football group are also available.
All the reports can be seen by using this link to the Parish Council site.
Open Gardens 2017
Posted in Events, Gardens on Wednesday May 31, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Two Feet Apart
Posted in Gardens, Two Feet on Tuesday May 30, 2017| 8 Comments »
A little later than planned but finally I’ve managed to catch up with my news from the garden. The sickening events in Manchester last week left me with little enthusiasm for writing garden trivia and it’s taken a while to get back into the mood.
A few weeks back Mrs. Monty and I visited the garden of Tilford House in Hognaston which was open as part of the National Gardens Scheme. The owners, appropriately named Mr. and Mrs. Gardner (I kid you not) have created a wonderful streamside garden of woodland, wildlife and pond areas. A good example of a garden style where weeds are tolerated and even enhance the overall environment. We’re already looking forward to our next garden visit to Culland Hall on the 18th June which has a great plant sale with many specialist nurseries in attendance (be warned, cash only)
One of Peter Gardner’s favourite plants is the Hosta of which he has some 300 varieties. His wife Jean refers to his collection as his “hostalry”. The Hosta is also one of my favourites and whilst I don’t have such numbers I have been creating my own hostalry for the local population of slugs and snails. This is how the menu is looking so far –
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Question for Monty – Chelsea Chop
Posted in Gardens on Wednesday May 24, 2017| 1 Comment »
Hi Monty
In the last couple of years I have successfully treated my nepeta (catmint) to the ‘Chelsea chop’ around this time, but will this work for perennial geraniums? Are there other cottage garden plants that might benefit….? Thanks, Emma S
Question for Monty
Posted in Gardens on Friday May 19, 2017| 7 Comments »
Now that the rain has come and the weeds have carpeted my garden overnight in a foot high swath, I am interested to know whether our gardening community hoe or hand weed. Hand weeding kills my back but hoeing doesn’t seem to catch every weed and I often slice through the stems of something precious. Also, does anyone have a secret weeding weapon? My preferred killer of choice is a Wilkinson Swoe and a Japanese hand tool like a curved knife but they both require serious concentration to avoid random decapitation of plants. Patti B.
Garden Trip to Shropshire
Posted in Gardens on Friday May 12, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Gardening Help Required
Posted in Gardens, School on Friday April 28, 2017| Leave a Comment »
We are looking for parents, governors, friends of the school, well anyone willing to spare us some time!!!We would love it if you could come to school on Tuesday 2nd May at 3.30pm and give the school gardening club a helping hand for 1 hour.
The borders are full of winter weeds and need to be cleared before we can get to the fun part of planting with the children.
We have plenty of equipment, so just turn up, bring a few other family and friends with you and get stuck in.
Many thanks in hopeful anticipation.
Parwich Primary School Gardening Club
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