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Philip Aubury became the Director of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in 1987, from a previous career in local government. He remained Director for 20 years, and his presentation to our Monday meeting covered the history of Birmingham Botanical Gardens from its...

At our Monday Meeting, Howard Drury DHE(Hons), offered us the endless depth and extent of his knowledge and experience of gardening and getting the best out of clay soils.  Having learned his craft the hard way – making other people rich by his labour – Howard...

As gardeners we sometimes forget that gardening can be unpredictable and we proceed on the basis of total control. We make our plans, buy our stocks and book our diaries to put our dreams into existence. And then Nature throws a googly, like this year, when the...

At our Monday meeting, Claire Tatler M. Hort shared details of her professional experiences “Gardening in Historic Places”, a talk not so much about garden design, but how the activities of the properties themselves, determined the way in which she planned and...

Monday’s meeting involved a presentation by Ben Matthews on hostas. Ben talked of his first awareness of hostas, when, as a six-year-old, his parents bought home two hostas for their new garden. Over the next few years Ben learned about planting and growing from the...

The enforced leisure of COVID gave Kit Smith, one of our members, the opportunity to further his relationship with a magnificent Quercus Rubor – his favourite oak tree on the Ridgeway beyond Hobsons Brewery in Cleobury Mortimer.  The fact that his garden was...

Creation of a dry garden was the title of a presentation to our Monday meeting, by our Chair, Flo Hadley. The mature cherry tree in Flo’s garden, together with a few drought years, had produced an area of poor, barren ground, and felling the tree was not an...

This is the title of a presentation by Wade Muggleton at one of our Monday Evenings.  It certainly was interesting, very entertaining and informative. We were given original history; which apples to choose to plant and why; advice on pruning; details of the...

I decided to make WATER a subject of an article after reading the Daily Telegraph newspaper’s diatribe on the economic health and future of Thames water; and by inference most other water companies which no longer belong in our national control, being owned by every...