Events – The Shropshire Horticultural Society

Please check the date of the event on the Groups own website. I try to make them accurate as possible and i know i am perfect but sometimes external circumstance conspire to make errors. David

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MARCH

4th March

Samantha Hopes Hellebores.

Ashwood Nurseries produce a broad range of Hellebores and Samantha will take us through the most desirable.

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4th March

Health and Herbs for the Spring Season Helen Whitworth

Helen Whitworth is an Herbalist working near Shrewsbury. She originally trained as a doctor and then worked as a GP in Shropshire for 28 years before retiring recently. She is a passionate organic gardener, does wild swimming and enjoys being in Nature. Re-training in Herbalism has allowed her to combine her love of healing with the use of natural remedies and she loves to share this joy. This will be an interactive talk with plants passed round and tasting of herbal treatments.

7th March

Developing the world garden at Lullingstone Castle
Tom Hart Dyke

12th March

Cultivate (Speaker to be confirmed): What is Cultivate?

How can we use what they learn in our own gardens?

Competition: Arrangement in an unusual container
Summer garden visits – t.b.a

12th March

Moors Meadow Garden near Bromyard with Ros Bissell

Ros will be sharing her award winning 7 acre organic hillside garden haven where plants and wildlife flourish. She is a self-confessed ‘rabid plantaholic’ who contrives to shoehorn-in rarely seen species from around the world which mingle with the native to give a pleasing and unique effect.

Moors Meadow Gardens is winner of RHS Partner Garden of the Year 2025 for the Midlands and East Region of England

Acton Scott Village Hall 7.30pm

18th March

25th March

Pete Carty – Minsterley Meadows

31st March

THE DRY GARDEN

Ingid Millington from Hillview Hardy Plants

Silvester Horne Institute 2pm

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APRIL

1st April

Julian Sutton: Adventures with Fancy Foliage.

The subtleties of form and colour that can turn an average plant or bulb into a great one.

4th April

Creating a jungle garden in the UK

David Hurrion

9th April

Andrew Wyton: To the ends of the earth

Competition: A single fragrant sprig
Summer garden visits – t.b.a

9th April

Acton Scott Village Hall 7.30pm

To be arranged

22nd April

A practical demonstration by Philip Aubery M.Hort – Propagation – New plants from seeds, cuttings and division.

Growing your own plants from seed, cuttings and division and saving you lots of money at the garden centre!

28th April

SPRING SHOW

MAY

2nd May

Stately Gardens

Camilla Anderson

6th May

Alan Oatway: Plant Hunting in Bhutan

An account of a three week visit to Bhutan highlighting plants from sub-tropical forest to high alpines at over 5000 metres!

14th May

Acton Scott Village Hall 7.30pm

Plant Swap and General Discussion

14th May

Helen Anthony: Through the Garden Gate – about the National Garden Scheme

Competition: A wildlife friendly arrangement
Summer garden visits – t.b.a

21st May

Spring in to the Garden is a ‘social evening’ with doors opening at 7 pm.

We get garden orientated people/organisations to come and set up stalls around Pontesbury Public Hall; we don’t charge them rent, we don’t charge admission, and we provide free refreshments for those attending; it’s a good sociable evening with a chance to buy gardening products direct from the small supplier, and to be able to meet and talk to like-minded people