Ramsbury Horticultural Society

Anna Forbes – Managing The River Kennet
2018-11-05 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Church Rooms
Monday 5th November in The Church Rooms, Back Lane, Ramsbury.
Anna Forbes – Managing The River Kennet. Anna manages ARK’s team of volunteers and leads the weekly practical conservation and restoration projects in and by the river. She carries out and oversees a variety of surveying and monitoring work, including water vole surveying and riverfly monitoring.

Colin Little - Beggars Knoll Chinese Garden.
2018-10-01 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Church Rooms
Monday 1st October. 7.45pm in The Church Rooms, Back Lane, Ramsbury.
Colin Little – Beggars Knoll Chinese Garden. Colin Little and Penny Sterling have built a one acre garden divided into Chinese rooms on a chalk hill above Westbury. They have visited China frequently and the garden incorporates traditional Chinese structures as well as plants. Please note that there will be a visit to the garden on Sunday 8th July and numbers are limited.

Kurt Vickery – Tulips Are Not the Only Weed
2018-09-03 08:00 - 19:30 (Europe/London) | church rooms
Monday 3rd September at 7.45pm in The Church Rooms, Back Lane, Ramsbury.
Kurt Vickery – Tulips Are Not the Only Weed. Kurt Vickery is a freelance photographer whose childhood experience in Malaysia awakened his interest in the natural world, and he has a particular passion for Tulips. The talk includes information on Species Tulips as well as other plants seen on trips in Jordan, Morocco, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Georgia, Azerbaijan and China.

Ramsbury Open Gardens
2018-06-17 14:00 - 17:30 (Europe/London)
Whats behind the garden gate.
Nine gardens to explore five of which have not been oened before. Tickets and maps will be on sale at the square from 2pm.
Tea & Cake on sale in the church rooms back lane.

NO DOGS

Biennial Lecture
2018-05-14 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
Fergus Garrett

Biennial Lecture
2018-05-14 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom

Spring Show & Bowls Club Fete
2018-04-14 14:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London)

Spring Show & Bowls Club Fete
2018-04-14 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom

Designing, building and planting an RHS show garden
2018-04-09 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | church rooms
Wendy Allen

Christmas Party
2017-12-09 19:30 (Europe/London) | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
Good Wine & Good Food ticketed event

Dorothy Baker Floral Art – Back to Basics
2017-11-06 19:30 (Europe/London) | Church Rooms
For those new to flower arranging Dorothy Baker will demonstrate the correct way to start an arrangement and describe useful props to have at hand. As a National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies (NAFAS) Floral Art judge, she will also be give hints and tips for entering the Floral Art Classes in our shows , telling us what the judge will be looking for in show entries.

Autumn Show & W. I Cakes & Preserves Day
2017-10-07 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
Display of autumn produce, flowers & Floral Art, Home Industries
Cakes etc for sale
Art Exhibition and Sale of work by Ramsbury painting Group

Autumn Show & W.I. Cakes & Preserves Day
2017-10-07 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom

Patricia Elkington THE GARDEN IN SPRING.
2017-10-02 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Church Rooms
Patricia Elkington will talk about the THE GARDEN IN SPRING. Members who visited her lovely garden earlier in the year will know that she will have lots of practical advice, still in time for planning our own spring planting.

Members Evening Visit
2017-09-07 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
Howe Mill
Pimms Evening

Timothy Walker from Oxford Botanical Gardens
2017-09-04 19:30 (Europe/London)
Timothy Walker will be telling us about THE SUBTLE ART & EXACT SCIENCE OF PRUNING . He says that For many people pruning is as bewildering as potions were to the young Harry Potter but armed with the 10 principles in this talk you will never fear pruning again. In addition to these principles he will look at the various classes of pruning with many examples of trees & shrubs commonly found in gardens. Timothy Walker has a background in practical horticulture as well as plant science. Timothy worked at
University of Oxford Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum, firstly as General Foreman, and eventually as Director. He now lectures in Plant Sciences at Oxford University.

Dipley Mill & West Green House Outing
2017-09-03 11:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London)
SUNDAY September 3rd Outing Dipley Mill (one of the most beautiful gardens in Hampshire-Alan Titchmarsh) and Westgreen House(grand garden with water staircase and fountain beautiful walled garden). Both in Hartley Witney. Leave the Square 11am return before 6pm Cost pp £15 NT members £23 non NT members. Places strictly limited only 16 seats
To Book your space contact Sheila: candsglass@btinternet.com or 520409
http://www.dipley-mill.co.uk
http://westgreenhouse.co.uk

Summer Show
2017-08-05 14:00 - 16:15 UTC | Ramsbury Memorial Hall, United Kingdom
All sorts of classes for you to enter:

Flowers
Vegetables
Fruit
Floral-art
Art and craft
Home industries
Photography

Refreshments available. Full details for exhibitors are in the show schedule, available in the Ramsbury Post Office or email hortsoc@ramsbury.org
