Chalfont St Peter Garden Club Newsletter - August 2007
Chairman: Charles Flawn
Secretary: Linda Hills-Harrop
Treasurer: Robert Bastin
Garden Hut Manager: Cliff Thayer
http://www.gardenclub.org.uk Dear Member
Summer Show 2007 Saturday 18 August At Chalfont St Peter
Community Centre 2pm-4.45pm
This is an open show. Non-members are welcome to enter.
Admission: 50p adults accompanied children free.
Facts and figures
2007 sees 123 different classes to enter. They include
classes for flowers, vegetable, floral art, domestic
classes, novelty classes, novice only classes and a junior
section.
There are 26 cups, trophies and special awards to be
competed for and prize monies to be won. The cups are
engraved and polished ready for the 2007 Show and are just
waiting for this years winners.
I hope that you have all received or collected your Show
Schedules now and that you are planning lots of entries!
Please encourage your friends and neighbours to enter the
show as well as visiting it. We hope to encourage more
entries for the Junior classes. The entries for these are
free but the entry forms must be filled in and returned by
the close of entries on the 15th August.
Email info @gardenclub.org.uk
Chalfont St Peter Garden Club wishes to thank the local
business community and importantly you our members for your
support.
Grace Hunter. Show Secretary
KEITHS COACH OUTINGS: -
9am Coach departs Church Hall/ Lane
5 September 2007 Lullingstone Castle Kent.
The UKs first ever World Garden of Plants, is the vision
of modern day plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke. Tom designed the
garden during his 9 month kidnap ordeal at the hands of
Colombian Guerrillas in 2000. After his release from
captivity, Tom returned home to Lullingstone Castle and
built the gardendykes world garden. Rare plants are for
sale here. Picnicking is encouraged as no food is served.
Refreshment on arrival, tea/coffee with biscuits and a 2 ½
hr tour of the Castle is included in the price.
No of seats
.. Lullingstone Castle @ £18.50 for members/
£19.50 non members
Name & Address
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Post code
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Total £
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Cheques made payable to Chalfont St.Peter Garden Club.
Forward to
Mr K Gould 10 Leachcroft, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks SL9 9LG
The Final Outing of 2007 is on 3 October to Chartwell House.
Home of Winston Churchill, the BBC's 'Greatest Briton'
Unrivalled collection of Churchill paintings, photographs
and memorabilia
Beautiful rose and water gardens commissioned by the
Churchills
Countryside walks with stunning views over the Weald.
This is a National Trust venue please bring your N/T card.
Coach leaves 9.30am.
No of seats
.. Chartwell @ £13 for members/ £14 non
members. Please add £9 if not a N/T mmember
Name & Address
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Post code
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Total £
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Cheques made payable to Chalfont St.Peter Garden Club.
Forward to
Mr K Gould 10 Leachcroft, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks SL9 9LG
Janes August Garden Tips
Now that summer soft fruit has finished producing crops it
is time to prune the plants. Blackcurrants needs the eldest
branches cut away to ground level (black or dark brown
branches) younger stems are a pale fawn colour. Remove
fruited canes of loganberries and other hybrid berries, tie
in new canes. Summer fruiting raspberries which have
produced a crop this year are also cut to ground level; tie
in the new stems, about 4-6 apart, removing weaker excess
canes. Prune back main and side shoots of gooseberries to 5
leaves to encourage it to produce fruiting stems next
season. Peg down strawberry runners from new plants into the
soil or pots of compost to root, cut down foliage to just
above the crown of each plant, clear away debris.
Continue harvesting crops regularly to ensure even cropping,
sow outside now: lettuce, Chinese and spring cabbage,
endive, radish and winter spinach. Continue pinching out
side shoots of tomatoes, water regularly and feed weekly,
pick cucumbers as they ripen to allow new flowers to develop
and pinch side shoots to just beyond a developing flower.
Lift onions with a fork and leave to ripen on the soil
before moving inside.
Clip evergreen hedges to give them time to recover and cover
themselves with new leaves before winter. Self sown seeds
from ladies mantle or nigella can be as troublesome as any
weed. After flowering, remove seed heads before they set
seed. Prune the long wispy side shoots of wisteria back to
5-6 leaves from the main framework, give a high potash feed
to improve flowering next year.
July meeting held on 18 July 2007
An appreciative audience heard Christine and Gerald
Hollingdale speak about showing vegetables and flowers. They
demonstrated their methods based on their wide experience as
gardeners, exhibitors and horticultural judges.
The Garden Hut open every Sunday 10.00am to 12 noon.
It is very important that you remember to bring your
membership card and show it when you make a purchase.
The HUT is still fairly well stocked for the quiet season,
any out of stock items can be obtained by request in a
reasonable time. We still have a few stainless steel hand
forks and trowels available at £3.85 each. The set would
make good Christmas presents.
Would the member who ordered the stainless steel digging
fork please collect ASAP
Many thanks for all your support.
Cliff Thayer Hut manager
Garden to Visit
Ascott Wing LU7 0PS Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, The National
Trust. 01296 688242 Panoramic views to the Chilterns; garden
design by Jacques and Peter Wirtz. 27 August 2007
The Glendeveor Hotel in Newquay. 34 en-suite bedrooms big
enough to cater for your every need/small enough to care
Explore The Eden Project and The Lost Gardens of Heligan
from this base. tel. 0500 131209./fax.01637 873133
Buyer Beware. Through the medium of this Newsletter
the club is bringing to your attention, opportunities that
may interest you, however, you must satisfy yourself that
they meet your requirements as Chalfont St. Peter Garden
Club will accept no legal, moral or financial
responsibility.
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