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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...

In 2023, Cleobury Gardeners had the pleasure of hosting master composter Rachel Strivens and colleague Caroline, for Monday evening’s effervescent discussion on the alchemy of turning garden green garbage and brown, broken brash into black gold – COMPOST!  ...