Talking Plants ***
Wrotham Heath and Ightham
Saturday 21 March 10.30am and 2.30pm
A visit to members’ gardens by a small group so that they all have a chance to discuss the plants they see with the garden owner and with each other.
This event is for members only and must be pre-booked.
Full details and booking form in the Winter Newsletter.
Successional Planting
Fergus Garrett
Sunday 22 February
Benenden Village Hall, 2.30pm map
Members’ lecture meeting. Guests are welcome to attend up to two meetings before becoming members.
Fergus Garrett will require little or no introduction to HPS members. As Head Gardener at Great Dixter in East Sussex, he worked for 15 years with iconoclastic master plantsman and gardener Christopher Lloyd until ‘Christo’s’ death in 2006, first merely carrying out instructions, but later as a full partner in the adventurousness and experimentation that came to characterise Great Dixter. Read more
Snowdrop & Hellebore Extravaganza
Sunday 15 February
Goodnestone Park Gardens
Wingham, near Canterbury map
11am to 4pm
Entrance £5.00 (HPS members £4.00)
Senior citizens £4.50 Children under 16 £1.00
*Members bringing display material before 10.30am - free
Event open to the public.
With a talk on hellebores and associated plants by
Tim Ingram at 12.30pm
This event has now become a much looked-forward-to and regular feature of our programme, Read more
Snowdrop & Hellebore Extravaganza - Plant Sale
Sunday 15 February 2009
Goodnestone Park Gardens
Wingham, near Canterbury map
11am to 4pm
Entrance £5.00 (HPS members £4.00)
Senior citizens £4.50 Children under 16 £1.00
*Members bringing display material before 10.30am - free
Event open to the public.
There is a plant sale as part of the Snowdrop and Hellebore Extravaganza. Specialist nurseries will be selling unusual varieties of both snowdrops and hellebores as well as many other spring bulbs, shrubs and perennials. Read more
In Search of the Queen of Sheba
- Orchids and other Western Australian plants
Irene Palmer
Sunday 25 January
Lower Hardres Village Hall 2.30pm map
Members’ lecture meeting. Guests are welcome to attend up to two meetings before becoming members.
John and Irene Palmer specialize in plant and landscape photography: their photographs have been published in over 100 countries. They are Honorary Wardens of Downe Bank, a small nature reserve Read more
Last chance to visit Glen Chantry
2009 will be the last year that the gardens and nursery at Glen Chantry, in Essex, will be open to the public. Wol and Sue Staines have decided to retire after 25 years of opening to the gardening public.
The garden and nursery will be open in 2009 from 15th May to 15th August, inclusive, on Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm. So, if you want to return to this lovely garden or visit for the first time this is your last chance - put the dates in your diary.
Check out their website www.glenchantry.demon.co.uk
Wild flower tours in South Africa
Green Routes, formed by Kent Group member Colin Moat, is offering wild flower tours in South Africa for HPS members. Read more
Welcome to our new website
Back in 2002, when we were all still wondering just what the internet could do for us, David Andrews put Kent Group on the World Wide Web with our own website. Read more
