Demonstration by Lucy Ellis Title ‘Limelight’
2024-06-06 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Mildenhall Village Hall, Mildenhall
Marlborough Floral Club 2024
Meetings held at Minal Village Hall 2-4pm
Entrance £6

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

Quiz vs Lambourn
2025-04-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Lambourn

Spring Show
2025-04-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
SPRING SHOW
Saturday 12th April
Ramsbury Memorial Hall
Show opens: 2.00 pm
Presentation of awards: 4.00 pm
Entry is free & open to non members
Ramsbury Bowls Club will be serving Tea & Cake along side other fundraising activities. Please note this is CASH ONLY
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Plant Sale
2025-05-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
Contributing to the Spring Plant Sale.
The May Plant Sale is the Horticultural Society’s main annual fundraising event, where many members top up their plant supplies. The money raised enables the Society to run the full and varied programme of regular gardening events for members – especially the shows and monthly talks – through the year. But here’s the catch: we can’t do it without you! The plants sold are donated by members, and a great Sale needs a wide variety of healthy plants.
Can you help by growing and potting up some spare plants from your garden and greenhouse? Every single plant you contribute helps our Society thrive . Easy ways to help No matter your gardening skills, here’s how you can pitch in: ● Veggies & herbs : Sow a few extra seeds this year—or donate spares after planting your vegetable beds. ● Bedding plants : Sow the whole packet of seeds and pot up those you don’t need for your decorative pots or borders. ● Leftover shop-bought plants : Bought a tray but won’t use it all? Share the extras—no need to repot if it’s close to the sale. ● Garden Divisions : Split overcrowded plants or pot up ones you no longer want. (Don’t know the name or variety? We’ll figure it out!) ● Cuttings : Propagating plants from cuttings etc? Pass along any you don’t need. Healthy specimens of all the plant types above always sell well and are very welcome. We do also sell some house plants.

Contact Us via email hortsoc@ramsbury.org

Axford Open Gardens
2025-06-08 14:00 - 17:00 | Axford
Additional details to follow

Rose Evening & Members Supper
2025-06-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
ROSE EVENING AND MEMBERS SUPPER
Saturday 14th June
Memorial Hall, High Street
Doors open 7.00 pm.
This is a ticketed event for Members ONLY
Stage exhibits-
 7.00—7.30 Saturday 14th June
Judging: This evening is primarily a social event and any points won will not be included in the calculation of the Banksian Medal.
Entries will be judged by those attending the evening. Members are encour-aged to enter the show, but are most welcome to attend even if they are not exhibiting.
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Flower Festival
2025-06-21 09:30 - 2025-06-29 16:00 | Holy Cross Church, High Street, Ramsbury

Summer Show
2025-08-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
SUMMER SHOW
Saturday 2nd August
Ramsbury Memorial Hall
Show Opens 2.00 pm
Presentation of Awards 4.00 pm
Entry is free & open to non members
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Gold medallist & BBC Gardener of the Decade Katherine Crouch talk on Dahlias
2025-09-01 19:30 - 22:00
Katherine Crouch Dahlias 1st September
Katherine is addicted to dahlias. She has been clean for 12 years since she grew 40 dahlias in a field and had no end of fun selling them outside her house opposite Donyatt church. She also grew zinnias, cleome, Euphorbia oblongata and golden rod to bulk out the bunches. She will be bringing bunches of her own favourites. Katharine won BBC BBC Gardener of the Year competition in 1999, BBC Gardener of the Decade in 2008 and also won a Gold medal at Chelsea Flower Show for designing a display for Kings Seeds 125th anniversary.
Doors on 7.30pm talk starts at 7.45pm raffle & tea as usual. £1 Members & £2 Non-Members please do share the details with anyone who may be interested.

Autumn Show & W.I Country Market
2025-10-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
AUTUMN SHOW
WI COUNTRY MARKET
Saturday 11th October
Ramsbury Memorial Hall
Show Opens 2.00 pm
Presentation of Awards 4.00 pm
Entry is free & open to non members
The W.I will be serving tea & cake alongside other fundraising activities. Please note this is CASH ONLY
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Talk - The Greenhouse Year by Gillian Taylor
2025-11-03 19:30 - 22:00 | Church Rooms
Gillian Taylor The Greenhouse Year 3rd November
Gillian formerly worked as a vet but now devotes most of her time to gardening in her own gardens in Hampshire and Northern France. She is an experienced horticultural speaker, writer and plants woman. Gillian is a member of the Historic Rose Group, Auricula Society, Hampshire Gardens Trust and Plant Heritage.
Her talk will cover aspects of greenhouse design, uses including overwintering of tender plants, propagation, production of flowers and vegetables and where to visit interesting greenhouses
Doors on 7.30pm talk starts at 7.45pm raffle & tea as usual. £1 Members & £2 Non-Members please do share the details with anyone who may be interested.

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Nicola Hope 'Talking Tomatoes'
2026-02-02 19:30 - 22:00 | Church Rooms
Nikki runs a successful organic gardening consultancy and garden design service. She holds the prestigious title of Royal Horticultural Society Master of Horticulture and has a diploma in professional garden design from the Cotswold Gardening School.
Nikki has worked as an assistant gardener at Highgrove for HRH Prince of Wales and also spent time working at Sting’s Lake House, The Abbey House, Malmesbury and leading designer Anoushka Hempel’s Cole Park.
Nikki adores tomatoes and has grown them for herself and clients for many years. Her talk ‘Talking Tomatoes’ will share growing tricks aplenty and lots of great variety recommendations. All of her talks include lots of fantastic photos that she has taken throughout her years of being a professional gardener. Nikki will be bringing along some of her own heritage and heirloom variety seeds for sale. They are £3 per packet or £5 for two packets.
Members £2 Non Members £4 which includes refreshments & raffle
