March 2011. Our celebrity speaker this year is Sir Roddy Llewellyn, a British baronet, landscape gardener, journalist and author. He runs his own garden design company and has an article in the February edition of The English Garden.
Non member tickets will shortly be available at £10.
May 2011. We visit “Hill Top” the garden of Mrs. Lyn Short, situated on the edge of Ilkley Moor. Prior to the 1890’s a thatched farm cottage stood on the site and subsequently a school and a convalescent home, but in 1996 a Swedish timber framed house was built by the present owners. Major planting schemes have been carried out by Gardenmakers and Holden Clough. The garden has gravel paths and steep steps which can be slippery, but it is a very interesting garden dissected by a rushing stream and well worth a visit.
Garden details can be found here.
June 2011. The club outing on Saturday June 18th. is to Jacqueline Iddon’s Garden and nursery at Bretherton near Leyland, Lancashire. We will be leaving by coach at 9-15am from Oxenhope Station. The cost of £25 is totally inclusive of:
- Coach fare
- Tea/coffee on arrival
- Tour of garden & nursery
- Lunch of sandwiches, side salad
- Tea/coffee & home made cake
- 30 minutes demonstration/talk
The garden is one & half acres split into different areas, a hot Mediterranean garden with bottle wall and folly for sun loving plants, a Victorian fern house and a walled garden, a woodland walkway for shade loving plants and a large stream fed pond planted with a wide range of unusual foliage & flowering plants, alongside climbing roses, clematis, shrubs & herbaceous borders. In the garden there is a sculpture gallery and a hardy plant nursery, with a wide selection of perennial plants of interest to the keen gardener & flower arranger. There is a large garden studio & conservatory with indoor seating as an insurance against the weather. The garden has been featured in Lancashire Life, Flora Magazine, Gardens Illustrated & Lancashire Magazine.
Places on trip still available - please contact Treasurer 01535 642684.
Garden details can be found here.
July 2011. Our Summer Lunch this year is in the village hall with a plant swop. Bring a plant-preferably potted up and exchange it for another.
August 2011. We will be visiting Pat Clarke’s garden at Harrogate, a delightful garden which looks particularly good this month.
Garden details can be found here.
September 2011. Jacqueline Iddon visits us, an entertaining speaker, she will give an illustrated talk on shade loving plants to fill those difficult areas of dry and damp shade with the emphasis on foliage colour and leaf texture.
October 2011. Ruth Wild, of Daisy Days Haworth, will give an autumn flower arranging demonstration. (Ruth favours the use of British grown flowers).
November 2011. Linda Smith will be making a return visit to speak on Water Gardens. With her husband she runs Waterside Nursery, winners of a gold medal at Chelsea RHS show 2011, in Leicestershire. For further information and plant orders visit
December 2011. Weather permitting - Christmas Party and A.G.M.