Holmes For GardensThe Codford Gardening Club spent a delightful day visiting the Holme for Gardens site at West Holme Farm, near Wareham, Dorset on the 21 June 2023. It is a lovely place to visit, providing a full day's activities walking round beautiful and unusual formal gardens and wilder areas along well planned routes; fit for the young and old. The development of a large woodland area, Jim's Wood, and the profusion of wild flower meadows made for special attractions and the expectation of future pleasures to come.The whole day was fully supported by an excellent Cafe Service, with a good choice of food, set out around a large gold fish pond on shaded, individual tables. Additionally there were a well stocked Farm Shop and a Garden Centre, through which to stroll and admire.Perhaps the overriding feature of a good day out, was the cheerful friendliness of all the staff who were clearly proud of the whole enterprise and sought to provide us with a happy day to remember
We meet in the large Hall of Codford Village Hall on the third Wednesday of every month at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start. The hall is open from 7pm to enable members to get drinks from the bar is desired.
The subscription is £10.00 for the year, payable at the time of the AGM, either by cash or cheque made out to The Codford and District Gardening Club, or if easier by BACS to Codford and District Gardening Club – Sort Code 09 01 52 –
Account Number 75756807 – Reference Your name.
Please keep your data up to date so that we can let you know what is happening; if you do not want to do this, please let the Secretary know and your data will be removed from the computer.
Please be aware that if you put your name down to go on a trip and have to cancel – for any reason – IT IS UP TO YOU to find someone to take your place. Coaches are booked months in advance and the number of people going on the trip dictates the price paid; it cannot be altered later if people drop out.
All Villages have a representative on the Committee, so if there is any subject you would like to hear about, or have heard a wonderful speaker, or have visited a beautiful garden that you think other members would enjoy seeing, please tell either your representative or any member of the committee and we will try to include it in the programme.
If you wish to put your name forward to join the committee, please give your name to the Secretary before the AGM.
Chairman J Claypoole 01985 850724
Treasurer John Curtis 01985 850906
Secretary Karen Johnstone 01985 850258
Bishopstrow and Sutton Veny Emma Crisp 840827
Upton Lovell and Heytesbury Brenda Akers 850261
Warminster and The Deverills Janet Wallis 220115
Boyton and Corton Frances Rigby 850303
Codford St Peter Sally Gibb 850810
Codford St Mary John Foster 850613
Plant sale details from Frances Rigby and VegEdible Day from Sally Gibb.
There was an Codford and District Horticultural Society in the pre-war years as the secretary has fliers from 1938 and 1939 when it held its Annual Show. This shows that the club had been started in 1906 as it states it is their 32nd Show. Some of the classes are - to the present day minds - a bit strange, such as a prize for the largest amount of dead Queen Wasps brought to the secretary before the show!
But due to the Second World War it came to a halt and wasn’t restarted until 1976 when a small group of about fifteen people gathered in the old Village Hall to hear talks from Lacock Agricultural College tutors through the season and Open meetings in members gardens through the summer, which appear to be more social gatherings than anything else. Since then, slowly but surely, membership has grown, speakers have expanded and visits to gardens have taken place far and wide.
The Club is open to everyone who is interested in gardening, whether as a complete amateur or a competent and knowledgeable gardener. We have speakers every month covering a huge range of subjects, from owners who have inherited a Grade One listed garden to ‘how to grow vegetables’ – there really is something for everyone.
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