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Gardening

All things gardens, gardening and gardeners here.

Gardening Review 

Monkey Cups, Hens ‘n Chicks and Fresh Air

Pamela Adams 27 June 202227 June 2022

Ticknall Garden Club was treated to a highly entertaining presentation at their June meeting. Doug Stewart travelled from Beverley in Yorkshire to convince

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Vertical Gardening
Gardening Review 

No Plot? No Problem!

Pamela Adams 18 May 202227 June 2022

Philip Aubury came to Ticknall Garden Club’s meeting in May to reassure his audience that there is plenty of scope for planting even

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Ticknall Garden Club
Gardening 

Ticknall Garden Club

Pamela Adams 12 May 202216 May 2022

Green Fingers? Or just green with envy at other people’s success? Whatever your involvement in horticultural pursuits you will be made most welcome

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Gardening 

Showing and Growing Herbs

Pamela Adams 25 April 202214 May 2022

Malcolm Dickson from Hooksgreen Herb Nursery near Stone came to talk at Ticknall Garden Club’s April meeting. He traced his progress from selling

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Tulipa hageri ‘Little Beauty’
Gardening 

Ups and Downs of Gardening

Griselda Kerr 6 April 20228 May 2022

Surely April and May are the two trickiest months of the year?   ‘Hooray’ we say with a light heart, ‘it is warm and

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Gardening Review 

Perfume in the Garden

Pamela Adams 16 March 202216 May 2022

Nick Bailey, a familiar face on Gardener’s World, attracted a sell-out attendance at Ticknall Garden Club’s March meeting. He came to talk about

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Hardy Geraniums aka Cranesbill
Gardening Review 

Hardy Geraniums

Pamela Adams 15 February 20228 March 2022

Gary Carroll came to the February meeting of Ticknall Garden Club to talk about geraniums. But it did not involve the bright and

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Snowdrops and pools of winter aconites
Gardening 

February Garden

Griselda Kerr 8 February 20227 April 2022

February is a month of such surprises. How many of us have actually counted the number of different genera flowering in their garden

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Gardening Review 

Life as a Head Gardener

Pamela Adams 23 January 20228 February 2022

Ticknall Garden Club enjoyed a most interesting talk on the working life of a head gardener at its January meeting. After gaining qualifications

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The author in her garden, January 2021
Gardening 

January Contrasts

Griselda Kerr 4 January 202228 April 2022

Do you remember last January (2021)?  We had deep snow here in Melbourne and probably Ticknall too, so there was little gardening possible

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Gardening Review 

Back to Basics in the Garden

Pamela Adams 22 November 202126 December 2021

Ticknall Garden Club anticipated that an interesting evening was in store on Tuesday, November 9th when Darren Rudge came to give a talk entitled

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Clematis is happy against a wall.
Gardening 

Over the Garden Wall

Pamela Adams 27 October 202122 November 2021

Ticknall Garden Club attracted a good attendance on Tuesday, October 12th with an audience keen to hear all about plants that are suitable

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Coprosma Inferno
Gardening 

Garden Club – Together Again

Pamela Adams 19 September 202127 October 2021

Members of Ticknall Garden Club met together on Tuesday, 14th September for the first time since February 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic tragically

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Asiatic Lily ‘Foxtrot’, Dower House garden early July
Gardening 

Musings on Mid-Summer’s Magic in Gardens

Griselda Kerr 16 July 202111 August 2021

Every season in a garden has its peaks and troughs and they do not necessarily come at the same moment for everyone –

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Gardening Review 

Wonderful Agapanthus

Pamela Adams 19 March 20204 April 2021

There was a packed audience in Ticknall Village Hall on March 10th when Steve Hickman came to talk about The World of Agapanthus.

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Gardening 

Fun Gardening with an Isolated Child

Griselda Kerr 26 March 20204 April 2021

Here in South Derbyshire, we are lucky to be living in the countryside where we can go for walks and keep our two

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Gardening 

Winter Gardening

Griselda Kerr 29 November 201926 March 2020

Winter gardening – I love it;  whilst there is much to do, there is time to do it whilst not in a headlong

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Gardening 

Garden Club Holidays

Pamela Adams 28 August 201512 March 2022

One of the highlights of the year is the annual Garden Club Holiday. By a wonderful act of organisation, we are transported to

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