Welcome to Edgworth and District Horticultural Society
If you were unaware of our Society before reaching this site, perhaps it will arouse your interest to come to the Show or to one of our monthly meetings to find out more
Our meetings are held at 7:30pm in the Barlow Institute, Edgworth, (close to Bolton and Blackburn, Lancashire) on every 3rd Wednesday of most months. These feature interesting illustrated talks on a variety of gardening subjects or occasionally on broader nature topics.
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We are
pleased to see both members and non-members at all meetings
And as
visitors or
exhibitors at our Village
Show (click for info and photos).This is
held annually on
the third Saturday of August. |
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| See our Newsletter and the photo gallery of our garden visits to the Lake District Gardens at Ridal and Holehird in Summer 2008 and to Castle Howard in Autumn 2008. Our 2009 day visits are to the Harrogate Spring Show and this Autumn to Yewbarrow House Garden, Grange-over-Sands. | ||
| Click for Yewbarrow booking inormation |
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Our 4-day mini-holiday in 2007 touring gardens in the North East was a new venture and so successful that we organised another 4-day mini-holiday in 2008 this time to Somerset.
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MARCH 19th 2009 |  |
Click here for a picture gallery |
| Roy Lancaster Plants a tree on behalf of E&DHS to Celebrate the 2009 Centenary of the Barlow Institute at Edgworth. Society secretary John King assists. |
Roy Lancaster at our evening meeting where he talked about his garden and about the plants he has collected and grows there. See Roy's letter to Pat Whalley and the society |
** £170 raised for Blackburn with Darwen Mayor's charities by our Annual Show raffle ** |
OTHER
LOCAL EVENTS Click below for North-West Garden Festivals in 2009 and for Cheshire's Gardens 2009 and for Myerscough Fair & Open Day 2009 see also local seed supplier in Blacko: Rebekah's Old Fashion/Unusual Vegetable Seed |
Take a look at our Gardening Tips including Sue Hoy's lists of plant recommendations Add your favorite tip by emailing us see also Edgworth and North Turton |
Our 2009 programme is: (click here for more information on the talks).
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Wednesday January 21st |
Bugs, Pests and Diseases (Nikky Davidson-Kerr) |
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Wednesday February 18th |
Gladioli and Carnations (Frank Hartnell) |
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Wednesday March 17th |
My Garden (Roy Lancaster) |
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Friday March 27th |
Annual Dinner -The Chetham Arms, Chapeltown |
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Wednesday April 15th |
Dahlias – My way (Ian Sutherland) |
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Saturday April 25th |
Spring Outing to Harrogate Spring Show |
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Wednesday May 20th |
Fruit for the Smaller Garden (Phil Dunnett of Ribblesdale Nurseries) - bringing plants to sell |
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Wednesday June 18th |
Container Gardening (Dean Peckett, RHS, Harlow Carr) |
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Friday June 26th to Tuesday 30th |
Gardens of Galloway (Mini-holiday click here for details) |
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Wednesday July 15th |
Evening Visit to view local gardens |
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Saturday August 15th |
Annual Show |
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Saturday September 5th |
Autumn Outing to Yewbarrow House Garden, email organiser Grange-over-Sands Fully booked |
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Wednesday September 17th |
Cold Greenhouses (Carl Brabin) |
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Wednesday October 21st |
Autumn Shades (Jacqueline Iddon) |
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Wednesday November 18th |
AGM, Seed Swap and social evening (Click here for AGM 2008 Minutes) |
There is a charge of £1 at meetings (£2 for non members). This includes tea / coffee and home-made cakes
The society is a thriving local society of over 190 members supported by a committee who work voluntarily to organise our events.
(click here to view the current committee, society constitution, AGM minutes and other documents)
Membership is £2.50 annually. This entitles members to a 10% discount at Holland Nurseries in Bromley Cross
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Contacts: Barbara Kenny - |
Chairman
Chairman@edgworth-horticultural-society.co.uk |
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Phil Broughton - |
Treasurer
Treasurer@edgworth-horticultural-society.co.uk |
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John King - |
Secretary
Secretary@edgworth-horticultural-society.co.uk |
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Pat Whalley - |
Events
Events@edgworth-horticultural-society.co.uk |
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