Longstock Garden Club are no longer a paid member of Tender Shoots
Anybody can view the Zoom talks by giving a donation
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Hampshire HPS Zoom Talks
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Saturday 15 February 2 pm for a 2:30 pm start: Church Hall & Zoom Cost £8
Nick Bailey
‘Revive Your Garden’ How to breathe life, style and good health back into tired gardens’
Nick is a freelance horticulturist, best-selling author, award-winning TV presenter, garden designer and speaker. He has worked in many sectors of horticulture for 30 years. He was Head Gardener for the famous Chelsea Physic Garden, where he spent seven years redesigning the gardens and diversifying the plant collection. This was the subject of his first book. Nick began his broadcasting career in 1995, appearing on numerous local and national radio and TV programmes. He is currently a regular presenter on BBC Gardeners’ World. He also has regular columns in BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine.
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The East Lancashire Group of the Alpine Garden Society Zoom Programme Spring 2025
We hope you all still enjoy and appreciate our excellent lectures and the opportunity to connect with and chat to other friendly alpine growers from around the world. It is certainly fun for us to spread the alpine vibe to fellow enthusiasts both near and far. Many thanks to all our past speakers for their time, their expertise and such highly entertaining programmes.
As a Group, we have already booked four more amazing lecturers for the forthcoming season and attached below you will find the full lecture/subscription details and dates for our Spring 2025 Quartet of Zooms, when we will welcome four more titans of the rock gardening pantheon from the USA, Canada and the Republic of Ireland.
The new Zoom season begins on Monday 13th January 2025 with another amazing lecture from Pennsylvania based gardening guru; John Lonsdale (of Edgewood Garden fame) on another of his horticultural specialities entitled:- ‘Unusual bulbs for Garden and Greenhouse’. John returns by public demand … your combined requests.
Zoom doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Please mark this date on your calendar. This is just the first of four magnificent zoom presentations in the run up to the lighter evenings of summer and all four can be watched by subscribing just £8 per household. With a couple living at one address that works out at just one pound per person per lecture. Terrific value in anyones book!
To subscribe to our Spring 2025 programme of four spectacular zoom lectures:-
Either 1) Preferred payment method if you have ‘online banking’, please pay to East Lancashire Group of the Alpine Garden Society, Sort Code 05-02-77, Account Number 20699578 – with the reference being your name and then most importantly, you must please e-mail The Treasurer, Sue Booker sue.booker@hotmail.com with your name, location and e-mail address to show that you are eligible for the receipt of the appropriate zoom links. These individual zoom links will be e-mailed to you a couple of days prior to each meeting. For international subscribers you may need the following:- IBAN GB59YORK05027720699578. BIC YORKGB21277.
Or 2) Send a cheque payable to East Lancashire Group of the Alpine Garden Society to the Treasurer (Sue Booker) at 5, Harwin Close, Shawclough, Rochdale, Lancashire, OL12 7UY with a note containing your name, your location and, most importantly, your e-mail address for the receipt of the appropriate zoom links each month.
Please note:- Any error in the details requested above may make it impossible for us to contact you with appropriate zoom links.
We hope you can join our ever-growing band of zoom participants, both national and international and we look forward to welcoming you to our meetings.
The first zoom meeting of the new quartet is now LESS THAN a fortnight away … please don’t delay … subscribe today!!
The dates, times, lecture and speaker details for the Quartet of Zooms are displayed below:-
Please note : Our Zoom in April will take place on a Tuesday evening immediately after Easter Monday.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Seasons greetings to you all and very best wishes for 2025.
Cliff and Sue
Hampshire HPS Zoom Talks
Saturday 18 January 2 pm for a 2:30 pm start: Church Hall & Zoom Cost £6 2025
This was a very good talk we hope to have a pre-recorded Zoom talk Jan 2027
Samantha Hopes
‘Spring Specialties in Ashwood’s Garden’
In this talk, Samantha will be looking at the springtime favourites: hellebores; hepaticas; primroses and auriculas
After working and studying at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Pershore College, Wisley, Kew, and Great Dixter, Samantha went to work alongside John Massey at Ashwood Nurseries. At first, she looked after the Hepatica Collection, but breeding Roscoea has become another passion. Together with her husband Nigel, they manage John’s Garden at Ashwood, which is regarded as one of the finest private gardens in the UK. She and Nigel also propagate and grow an unusual range of plants in their garden.
Saturday 15 February 2 pm for a 2:30 pm start: Church Hall & Zoom Cost £8
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