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 (detailed below)
and as
visitors or
exhibitors at our Village
Show (click for info and photos).This is
held annually on
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See
our Newsletter (see the June quiz answers here) and
the photo gallery of 1-day our garden visits in Autumn 2009 to Yewbarrow House Garden, Grange-over-Sands.
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4- DAY HOLIDAY FOR 2010 In 2010 we will be visiting NORFOLK GARDENS (click for description & pictures) ----------------------------------- READ ABOUT OUR 4-DAY MINI HOLIDAYS OF RECENT YEARS Our 4-day mini-holiday touring Gardens of the North East in 2007 was a new venture and so successful that we organised another in 2008 this time to Somerset. In 2009 we were visiting Galloway Gardens (click for description & pictures)
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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 See some of Roy's Recommended Plants |
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OTHER
LOCAL EVENTS & GARDENS TO VISIT Click below for North-West Garden Festivals and for Cheshire's Gardens and for Myerscough Fair & Open Day see also local seed supplier in Blacko: Rebekah's Old Fashion/Unusual Vegetable Seed |
** £194 raised for Bolton Hospice by our Annual Show raffle **Take a look at our Gardening Tipsincluding Sue Hoy's lists of plant recommendations Add your favorite tip by emailing us see also Edgworth and North Turton |
Our 2010 programme is summarised below. Click for more detail
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Wednesday January 20th |
House Plants (John Ainsworth - Bamber Bridge) |
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Wednesday February 17th |
Water Gardens (Bob Hughes - Myerscough College) |
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Wednesday March 17th |
Garden Design and a lot more! (Andrew Shaw - Skipton) |
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Friday March 26th |
Annual Dinner -The King William, Chapeltown Road, Bromley Cross |
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Wednesday April 21st |
House Plants (John Ainsworth - Bamber Bridge) - postponed from January |
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Saturday May 15th |
Spring Outing to Bodnant Gardens (note: date incorrect on some membership cards) |
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Wednesday May 19th |
Perennials & Grasses (Russ Watkins, RHS, Harlow Carr) |
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Wednesday June 16th |
Evening Visit to Bluebell Cottage Garden |
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Wednesday July 21st |
Begonias from Start to Finish (Terry Tasker, Southport) |
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Friday July 30th to Monday August 2nd |
Gardens of Norfolk (Mini-holiday click here for details) |
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Saturday August 21st |
Annual Show |
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Saturday September 4th |
Autumn Outing to Newby Hall (click here for details) |
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Wednesday September 15th |
Vegetables and Plants for the Winter Garden (Phil Dunnit - Woodplumpton) |
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Wednesday October 20th |
Chrysanthemums (Ken Dear - South Wirral) |
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Wednesday November 17th |
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 230 members supported by a committee who work voluntarily to organise our events.
Membership is £2.50 annually. This entitles members to a 10% discount at Holland Nurseries in Bromley Cross
View the current committee including photographs, society constitution, AGM minutes and other documents
Listed below are our main officers.
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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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