The Gardening Group

Leader: Paul Dean - gardening@ashbyu3a.co.uk - phone 07707 862762

The group meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 2.15 pm at Packington Village Hall unless otherwise indicated.

Please note: All attendees must show their u3a membership card to all events.


Future programme
Date	Time	Venue	Details	Image

Thu 20th Feb	2.10 pm	Packington Village Hall.	An illustrated talk by Hildegard Wiesehofer about the glorious NGS gardens of Derbyshire. Entry £4.
Thu 20th Mar	12.30 pm start	SELF DRIVE to Planters Garden Centre, Tamworth B78 2EY.	A talk by Gerald Ingram, owner of Planters. Sandwiches, cakes and tea or coffee will be provided before the talk begins. Price £15.00. Booking essential.
Thu 17th Apr	2.10 pm	Packington Village Hall.	Roy Mitchell talk on Calke Abbey Gardens. Entry £4.
Thu 15th May	8.30 am depart	COACH TRIP to Breezy Knees Gardens near York.	Departing from Royal Hotel at 8.30 am. Coach and entry £34.00
Thu 19th Jun	Meet at 2 pm	SELF DRIVE to Elford Hall Gardens, B79 9DA.	Price to be confirmed
Thu 17th Jul	10 am depart	COACH TRIP to Kelmarsh Gardens, Northampton.	Price to be confirmed
Thu 21st Aug		Garden Party. Venue required

16th January - Gardening for Wildlife

For our first meeting of the year, we had a talk given by Karen Gimson, who has a feature in Garden Answers magazine, and is also on Radio Leicester.

The theme was gardening for wildlife and she identified some plants that were beneficial for insects, how water features, log piles, bug hotels, grasses etc. are also good for them. If you have wooden fences surrounding your garden area you can make a small hole the size of a CD that should allow hedgehogs to enter.

She has had swifts visiting for 33 years, and they always use the mud to build their nests, but one year there was no mud, and Karen and her husband created the mud themselves and the swifts used it.

A very interesting talk with excellent pictures.