Monday Night Musings

These articles have appeared in local publications, and are generally reports on the presentations by our Monday Meeting Speakers to members and visitors.

Mycorrhizal networks

Mycorrhizal networks

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...

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Creation of a dry garden

Creation of a dry garden

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...

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Why apples are interesting

Why apples are interesting

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...

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Water wars and water butts

Water wars and water butts

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...

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Composting for beginners

Composting for beginners

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!  ...

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