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Raffle
Refresh-ments
2013 Hyde Hall
Club Meetings
Organised Trips
Talks & Demonstrations
Plant Swop & Quiz Night
Christmas Theme Member Benefits
Annual Show
By Coach
Local Gardens
RHS Gardens
7th Annual Show
13th Sept 2015
Last Tuesday of the month Rachel Fowler
Centre
Public Talks
2015 National Botanic
Gardens of Wales
2015 Mells
Walled Garden
Christine Walkden 11th June
2015
Discounts
Aim: To Further Gardening
Knowledge & Techniques through…
Melksham Gardeners’ Society
2015 Programme
24th February:
National Garden Scheme
24th March: (AGM)
Keeping hens in the garden
28th April:
Hanging Baskets
26th May:
Plant Swop & Quiz
30th June:
Visit to The Walled Garden
at Mells
28th July:
Member Garden Visit
29th September:
Cactus Growing
27th October:
TBA
24th November:
Christmas theme
12th July:
Coach to National Botanic
Garden of Wales
13th September:
7th Annual Show
11th June:
Christine Walkden Talk
27th January:
Pruning Trees & Shrubs
Society Meetings
70+ Members for 2015-16 season
Last Tuesday of the month
Rachel Fowler Centre
Consistently 40+ members & visitors attending
Refreshments
Raffle
Member Benefits
Discounted Seeds 50% off Thompson & Morgan seeds
22 members took advantage
purchasing 320 packets of seeds valued at £854
Cost to members: £427
Countrywide Stores 10% off all garden related purchases
Sponsorship of “Best in Show” cup
Melksham Gardeners’ Society Public Talks At Melksham Assembly Hall
May 2013: Adam Pascoe
May 2014: Bob Flowerdew June 2015: Christine Walkden
Annual Flower & Produce Show
9 Classes: Flowers
Vegetables Fruit
Young Exhibitors Floral Art Cookery
Handicrafts Photography Closed Class
7th Annual Show 13th Sept 2015 Demonstrations & Displays
RHS Banksian Medal
Melksham Gardeners’ Society and the Community
• Plant Swop – Excess plants (lots!) donated by members used for:
• Scouts Summer Fayre • Aloeric School Summer Fayre • Aloeric School Gardening Club planted some and used some for a
plant swop & sale raising funds for bedding plants • Table with plants for sale outside the Guide HQ • Garden sale raising funds for Dorothy House Hospice • Melksham Open Gardens – sold in aid of the Children’s Society
• Christmas Theme ‒ Wreaths or Table decorations made with plant and
decorative material donated by members ‒ Left over material (lots!) and workshop tuition, donated to
local groups • Aloeric School Gardening Club made table decorations and
wreaths • Parents and guests did similar and raised £75 for the PTA • Bowerhill Ladies Group did similar donating £25 raised to
Dorothy House Hospice