Nayland HortSoc Calendar

Activities for 2012

20th March: Spring Speaker - 'The Victorian Garden'
	Terry Illsley will give an illustrated talk on 'The Victorian Garden: the golden age of gardening'. Church Hall, Bear Street 7.30pm for 7.45pm. Non-members welcome.
24th March: Spring Show
	Display opens in the Church Hall at 10am, coffee, cakes & raffle. Stage entries from 8.15am to 9am. Non-members welcome. see Spring Show* page for more details*
17th April: AGM & Fun Quiz Evening
	Church Hall, Bear Street 7.30pm. Potential new members very welcome.
11th May: Visit to RSPB's Flatford Wildlife Garden
	Travelling by car, leaving Nayland at 2pm
26th May: Morning Market
	9.30am Church Hall, Bear Street. Fundraising sale of bedding plants, books, cakes, preserves. Coffee & raffle.
2nd-5th June: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition
	An exhibition of 1950s memorabilia and social and domestic artefacts and flower display in St James Church
13th June: Coach outing to East Ruston Old Vicarage Garden and Blacksmiths Cottage Nursery & Garden
	Coach leaving Nayland 9am, departing from East Ruston 5.15pm. The cost will be £23 to include travel, entrance to both venues and morning coffee at Blacksmith's Cottage Nursery. There will be picnic facilities, and teas will be available in the afternoon at East Rushton Old Vicarage Garden. Non-members are welcome. These are very popular venues so please book early to avoid disappointment. Details and booking form here (pdf 410Kb) Established in 1973 East Ruston Old Vicarage, a RHS partner garden, is a remarkable 32 acre garden incorporating formal design, enormous decorative exuberance and brilliant planting. Close to the North Sea but extremely well protected by windbreaks, which create a unique micro-climate make it possible to grow many remarkable tender plants. The individual gardens contained therein include herbaceous borders, cutting and vegetable gardens, exotic garden, Desert wash, Mediterranean garden, sunken garden, autumn borders and a fabulous cornfield planted with the `weeds´ of yesteryear. Imaginatively planted pots and containers plus finely detailed walls and gates all play their decorative part. The gardens contain an interesting collection of sculptures by local artists as well as many architectural features.
	Blacksmiths Cottage Nursery is a small family run specialist perennial nursery, owned by Ben Potterton, plant grower, garden designer, RHS Gold medal exhibitor, and Radio Norfolk gardener. The Royal Horticultural Society partner nursery was developed 11 years ago with the help of the Princes Trust where they grow a wide range of choice and unusual hardy perennials. There will be a tour of the display gardens and private collection of birds & animals.
13th July: Summer Garden Party
	Party for members at Parker's, Bear Street at 7.30pm by kind invitation of Andrew and Sue Gowen.
4th August: Annual Flower Show
	Display opens 2pm Nayland Village Hall, includes: Produce Stall, Teas, Raffle There are classes for Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers, Cookery, Preserves, Craft, Photography and there are Family and Children's Sections. Non-members welcome. see Summer Show* page for more details*
16th September: minibus outing to RHS Hyde Hall Gardens and Ingatestone Hall & Gardens
	This will be a members outiing. RHS Garden Hyde Hall, with sweeping panoramas, big open skies and far reaching views is an inspiration to visitors of all ages. The garden boasts an eclectic range of inspirational horticultural styles from traditional to modern, providing interest and colour. Must see areas of the garden, include the quintessential hilltop garden with its ponds, roses, farmhouse garden, woodland garden and island beds, herbaceous borders and lush green lawns; and the Mediterranean styled Dry Garden which showcases a fantastic range of drought tolerant plants; Queen Mother’s Garden – with meandering paths and a mix of grasses, perennials and roses; and a vegetable garden demonstrating different cultivation methods.
	We will enjoy an afternoon at *Ingatestone Hall*, which substantially retains its original Tudor form and appearance with its mullioned windows, high chimneys, crow-step gables and oak-panelled rooms and is surrounded by ten acres of enclosed gardens comprising extensive lawns, walled garden and stew pond, an avenue of ancient lime trees and the cistern in the Old Orchard in which until very recently, spring water was collected to supply the house. The Hall remains primarily a private family residence but eight principal rooms containing paintings, furniture and memorabilia accumulated over the centuries will be open to explore.
16th October: Autumn Speaker - 'The Amateur Glasshouse'
	*Matthew Tanton Brown* will give an illustrated talk on 'The Amateur Glasshouse: the structure and its use' at the Church Hall, Bear Street, 7.40 for 8pm. Non-members welcome.
13th November: Joint meeting with the Conservation Society
	Neil Catchpole, Landscape & Biodiversity Officer, Dedham Vale AONB Stour Valley Project, will be speaking about *'Trees and the Stour Valley'*. At Nayland Village Hall 7.40 for 8pm. Non-members welcome.
2nd December: Christmas Fayre (Community Council)
	HortSoc will have a fundraising stall selling seasonal items, gifts and a raffle. Donations of seasonal items for the stall or raffle prizes very welcome.



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Sunday 17th June: Nayland Open Gardens
	A variety of gardens including; cottage, riverside, hillside and large walled gardens will be on show to visitors between 2pm - 6pm. For more information and photographs of the gardens visit the *Nayland with Wissington Conservation Society* website.