Pennard Plants Potato Day
2024-02-03 10:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Bouverie Hall Pewsey

Talk - Grow your own flowers, The Cutting Garden By Sara Willman
2024-02-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Church Rooms
Members £1 Non Members £2 Raffle & tea
Subscriptions for the new year will be open & schedules for the new year will be available.
IF YOU HAVE A NEW SCHEDULE BRING IT TO MAKE NOTES IN.

Snowdrops & Hellebores Flyer Outing
2024-02-15 13:00 - 17:00
First flyer trip of the year to visit Cerney House Gardens, Nr Cirencester.
Bookings can be made with Janet on 01672520682 or 07584253117

Talk - 'Showtime - What the judge is looking for'
2024-03-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Church Rooms
Antony Powell our fruit, vegetable & flower judge will give you some hints and tips in readiness for show day.
Please bring your schedule along to make notes.
Membership payments can be accepted on the night.
Members £1 Non members £2 Booking not needed just turn up.

Demonstration by Arnaud Metairie Title ‘Garden in the Sky’
2024-03-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Mildenhall Village Hall, Mildenhall
March 7th
Demonstration by Arnaud Metairie Title ‘Garden in the Sky’
Marlborough Floral Club 2024
Meetings held at Minal Village Hall 2-4pm
Entrance £6

Annual Quiz against Lambourn
2024-03-21 07:30 - 22:00 | Church Rooms
Come along and learn a thing or 2.
Annual quiz against Lambourn is a fun, interesting evening aimed at the amateur gardener.
2 teams take part in a battle to win the trophy.

Demonstration by Kathryn Delve Title ‘A Touch of Spry’ (Inspired by the life of Constance Spry)
2024-04-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Mildenhall Village Hall, Mildenhall
Marlborough Floral Club 2024
Meetings held at Minal Village Hall 2-4pm
Entrance £6

Spring Show & Bowls Club Fete
2024-04-13 14:00 - 16:30 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
Show opens at 2pm
Tea & Cake will be available

Coach Outing To Exbury Gardens also dropping at Beaulieu
2024-05-11 08:00 - 17:00
details tofollow

Plant Sale
2024-05-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Millstream
Plant donations came be dropped to millstream on Friday evening or up till 10 am Saturday
or drop us a message via email hortsoc@ramsbury.org
Stop by and buy a plant or three and then why not enjoy tea & cake from the ladies fund raising for Axford Village Hall.
Please be advised this is a CASH ONLY event.

D - Day 80 Flower Festival
2024-06-01 09:30 - 2024-06-09 16:00 | Holy Cross Church, High Street, Ramsbury
Donations to the church flower fund most welcome.
Please note usual church services will continue Thursday & Sunday morning

Demonstration by Lucy Ellis Title ‘Limelight’
2024-06-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Mildenhall Village Hall, Mildenhall

Open Gardens
2024-06-16 14:00 - 18:00
Ramsbury Horticultural Society
Open Gardens
This year we are raising much needed funds for
Wiltshire Air Ambulance & Prospect
This is a CASH ONLY event.
Check out the map and make a plan of the gardens you would like to visit. You can visit as little or as many within the openings times.
At the first garden you will need to buy your ticket this will gain you entry into all those gardens.
The number within your party will be written on the ticket so please stay in your party when entering the next garden.
Isles Court Estate Gardens 2 – 4pm ONLY
27 Oxford Street Pimm’s will be on sale.
18 The Paddocks Tea & Cake will be on sale.
Raising funds for Axford Village Hall.
Tickets Adult £7.50 per person
accompanied under 18’s FREE
Assistance DOGS ONLY
Enjoy xx

Merchants House Trust Gardens Open Marlborough
2024-06-23 08:00 - 17:00
Details to follow

Demonstration by Kelly Jennings Title ‘Summertime Fun’
2024-07-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Mildenhall Village Hall, Mildenhall

Summer Show
2024-08-10 14:00 - 16:30 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
2024-schedule-RHS

The Blade Sharpening Company
2024-08-10 14:00 - 16:30 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
Neil will be with us on Saturday afternoon in the Memorial Hall Car park

Lambourn Flower Show & Fete
2024-08-17 08:00 - 17:00

Gardening for Wildlife & The Birds in Your Garden Talk
2024-09-02 19:30 - 22:00 | Church Rooms
Monday 2nd September 2024 Church Rooms, Back Lane Doors Open 7.30 pm Talk starts at 7.45 pm
Ailsa will be talking to us about
Gardening for Wildlife: how to make your garden attractive to wildlife, especially birds.
The Birds in Your Garden : what they are, why they’re doing what they do and how to encourage them.
£1 Members £2 non members
Tea & Coffee

Demonstration by Christine Ramsey Title ‘Flower Power’
2024-09-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Mildenhall Village Hall, Mildenhall

Axford Fete
2024-09-07 08:00 - 17:00
Jubilee Field, Axford
More details to follow.

Demonstration by Rosemary Kerr Title ‘Oriental Takeaway’
2024-10-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Mildenhall Village Hall, Mildenhall

Autumn Show
2024-10-12 08:00 - 17:00
CASH ONLY at this event the W.I have no online facilities.
Staging exhibits 9 am – 10.30am
any blades for sharpening can be dropped off then please label them.
Show Opens 2pm presentation of awards 4pm

Blade Sharpening Service
2024-10-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
Neil will be joining us for the afternoon.
Blades can be dropped off at registration or at staging time so Neil can get straight on.
Please label your blades.

Wiltshire Liqueur Company - Talk - Taste - Purchase
2024-11-04 19:30 - 22:00 | Church Rooms
A talk through the process, how to use liqueurs.
Licensed event so an excellent opportunity to buy some festive treats.
Horticultural members £1 Non Members £2 Tea & Biscuits & raffle ticket included.
This event is open to all so please do come and support local organisations & local business.

New Year Party Members Only Event
2025-01-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
Members New Year Party 4 January
A wine tasting evening lead by the one & only Clive Glass who will inspire you with his whit & charm whilst also trying to mislead you………. For those who have never been Clive prepares various anecdotes to describe a particular wine that you then have to guess which is right. 6 wines are tasted throughout the evening and a fabulous supper is enjoyed by all. As always the evening is for MEMBERS ONLY as a thanks for all you support throughout the year.
Tickets are £15 per person and you can only purchase tickets via myself either email hortsoc@ramsbury.org or by phone 521293 or 07867921878 answerphone available on both numbers.
I will confirm your tickets and then you can pay via basc tickets are limited to 64 people and as always we ask for donations of puddings let me now on booking.
Tickets will only be issued to MEMBERS.

AGM
2025-01-27 19:30 - 21:30 | Church Rooms
Come along and find out what’s on the schedule for the coming year, paying of subscriptions, election of officers. Mulled Wine & FUN quiz.
As always a review of the year.
RHS AGM minutes 2024 v2
AGM 2025

Talk Ben’s Berkshire Bees
2025-02-03 19:30 - 22:00 | Church Rooms
A talk from Ben’s Berkshire Bees. 3rd February
Ben, the Head Beekeeper, started beekeeping in 2014. After getting his first hive he was hooked and has increased his number of hives each year. Now Ben’s Berkshire Bees is running over 100 hives and expanding each year. It is small beekeeping business based in West Berkshire, producing high-quality honey and wax products from their own hives. They are members of the British Bee Farmers’ Association.
Ben will talk to us about different types of bees, what they do over the year and how we can plant to help them.
Doors on 7.30pm starts at 7.45pm raffle & tea as usual. £1 Members & £2 Non-Members please do share the details with anyone who may be interested.

Windsor Castle & St George Chapel - Barnes Tour
2025-02-21
This event has been postponed due to lack of available seats
Friday 21 February Coach outing to Winsor Castle & St George Chapel £61 per person. A Barnes coaches trip which we are able to reserve seats for and be collected from Ramsbury. Please contact Di to book which we need to do fairly promptly.
diannbarnett@hotmail.com or by phone 521363 or 07833306916

Talk - Bombproof Roses for The Modern Gardener by Val Bourne
2025-03-03 19:30 - 22:00 | Church Rooms
Val Bourne 3rd March Bombproof Roses for The Modern Gardener

Val Bourne is an award-winning garden writer, organic gardener and lecturer an organic gardener. Val, unable to spray for the fungal disease black spot, has identified some super-healthy roses and uses them in her garden at Spring Cottage. Bourton- on-the-Water. Many of the old roses have Gallica blood somewhere in their lineage, but she can also grow Albas, Hybrid Musks, Ramblers and some climbers. In her mixed peony, rose and phlox borders she has added some modern shrub and floribunda roses. She is a hands on gardener and a committed plantaholic. The talk covers the roses, their companions, rose pruning and feeding.
Doors open 7.30 pm talk starts 74.45pm in the Church Rooms, Ramsbury
Members £1 Non-Members £2 which includes raffle ticket & tea
