AGM Monday 27 January 2025 7.30 pm @ Church Rooms in Back Lane.
Membership opens for the year and the coming year schedules available with even more fun classes to enter. The night of the year where the much sort after award is presented, the Banksian Medal. Of course mulled wine will be severed & a fun quiz at the end of the evening. We welcome suggestions for the society events.
Please do bring along anyone interested in becoming a member.
Membership £5 Single, £10 family BASC payments are available or cash is still accepted.
Sort code—30.94.46
Account no– 00104525
Membership in the info bar
Suggestions can be made at any time via email hortsoc@ramsbury.org
Next week we start with 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.
Friday 21 February Coach outing to Windsor 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
moving forward march see a talk from Val Bourne on 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.
Monday 3 March 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.
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We look forward to seeing you all on Monday evening.