2024/25 Talk schedule

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I During the year Lynne gives several talks to gardening groups and horticultural societies on a number of different garden related topics. Please get in touch if you would like to know the full range of talks available for presentation at your club or society event. Please note: due to a busy show season Lynne is not available May-end of July.  
Here are the confirmed dates for 2024 /25 but others will be added throughout the year as bookings are accepted. 

 Date Venue Time Topic of talk Plants for sale 
Wednesday 7th February

Mountfitchet Gardening Club

Stansted Day Centre, Crafton Green, Chapel Hill, Stansted Mountfitchet CM24 8AG

 

20.00 52 weeks in the shade garden -  Shade plants for year round interest  No. Seeds will be available. 
Sunday 18th February 

Hardy Plant Society Essex Group

Wickham Bishops Village Hall, Snows Corner, Wickham Bishops, Witham CM8 3JZ

14.00 52 weeks in the shade garden -  Shade plants for year round interest  No. Seeds will be available.
Thursday 11th April

Boreham Gardening Club

Boreham Village Hall, Main Road, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex 

CM3 3JD

19.45 Don’t underestimate the potential of the dark side

a look a how to successfully design shady borders for your garden

Yes 
Monday 15th April

Ramsden Bellhouse Horticultural Society

Village Hall, Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex, CM11 1RH

19.30

Perennial plants for clay soils - plants for sun and shade

Yes
Thursday 25th April 

Wickford Horticultural Society

Christ Church Hall, Gateway Service Road , Wickford SS11 8EB

20.00 Behind the scenes at an RHS show 

- what it’s like to be an exhibitor at a large RHS show and what exhibitors have to do to put on a display in a floral marquee

Yes
Thursday 12th September 2024

Romford Floral Art Group

St Michael and All Angels Chutch, Main Road,  Gidea Park, RM2 5EL

19.30 An arrangement of shady characters -  Shade plants that are useful as cut flowers Yes
Thursday 3rd October  White Horse Garden Club Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall, Uffington SN7 7RE 19.30 52 weeks in the shade garden -  Shade plants for year round interest  Yes
Monday 21st October

Blackwater Gardening Group

West Maldon Community Centre, Sunbury Way, Maldon, CM9 6YH

 

14.00 52 weeks in the shade garden -  Shade plants for year round interest  Yes
Sunday 27th October 

Hardy Plant Society Kent Group 

Venue to be confirmed

14.30 Wafters, Wanderes & Woodlanders 

- A look at tall, short and very choice shade plants.

 

 Yes

Tuesday 21st January 2025

Shenfield Garden Society

Shenfield Parish Hall
60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, Brentwood, CM15 8LB

19.30

A Blessing in Disguise - A shady spot is the perfect place to grow some unusual and beautiful perennials

No
Wednesday 12th March 2025

Totteridge Garden Club

Totteridge Village Hall, Badgers Croft, London N20 8AH

TBC Perennial plants for Clay Soils 

- plants for sun and shade

Yes
Tuesday 18th March 2025

Laindon Horticultural Society

WI Hall, Samuel Road, Laindon SS16 6E

14.00

What’s in a name? - A lighthearted look at the reason behind the common names of plants and plant folklore

Yes
Tuesday 18th March 2025

Maldon & Heybridge Horticultural Society

Maldon United Reformed Church, Market Hill, Maldon CM9 4PZ

19.45 A Blessing in Disguise 

- A shady spot is the perfect place to grow some unusual and beautiful perennials

Yes

Saturday 25th March 2025

Kingswood, Walton & Tadworth Horticultural Society

Church of the Good Shepherd, 1 The Avenue, Tadworth, KT20 5AS 

 

15.00 TBC Yes
Saturday 11th October 2025

Hardy Plant Society, Norfolk & Suffolk Group, Roydon Village Hall, 3 High Road, Roydon, Diss,       IP22 5RB

14.00 52 weeks in the shade garden -  Shade plants for year round interest  Yes
TBC

Little Waltham Gardening Club

 Little Waltham Memorial Hal, Chelmsford Essex, CM3 3LN

19.30 TBC Yes