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What’s on
Please find below a list of some meetings and events scheduled from end of March to end of June. As always, please check before attending any event. Please take a look at the NVS web site ‘Events’ section for up-to-date and additional information and Zoom talk booking facilities. You will also find, links within the events to some of the larger host event web pages too.
Date Local to Type Description Speaker Location Time
20/03/2024 National Zoom Talk (last A closer look at Asian Hornets – A serious Vanessa Jones Zoom 7.30pm in this series of problem for the UK.
Zoom talks)
28/03/2024 Welsh Branch Meeting Committee Meeting N/A The Lamb and Flag, North St, 11.00am Rhayader LD6 5BT
28/03/2024 Welsh Branch Meeting Annual General Meeting N/A The Lamb and Flag, North St, 2.00pm Rhayader LD6 5BT
09/04/2024 West Yorkshire Talk “Growing & Showing Exhibition Dahlia’s” and Ian Sutherand The Knowle, Victoria Road, 7.30pm for an D.A. demonstration on how to take dahlia cuttings. Keithley. BD21 1ER 8.00pm start
09/04/2024 Hants D.A. Talk Spring Flowering Perennials - renowned plants woman and 24 Chelsea gold medal
winner will share her pearls of wisdom
Rosy Hardy
Sherfield English Village Hall, 7.30pm Salisbury Rd, Sherfield English,
SO51 6FL
10/04/2024 Kent D.A. Talk Provisional talk by the UK’s biggest Guest speaker Bridge Village Hall, CT4 5JZ 7.30pm glasshouse complex producing hundreds of from Planet Earth
millions of salad crops each year using cutting edge technology
11/04/2024 Lancashire D.A. Talk From Seed to Show Bench John Smiles Ribchester Sports & Social Club, 7.30pm Church St, Ribchester, PR3 3YE.
20/04/2024 Midlands Meeting Committee Meeting N/A South Hinksey Village Hall Oxford 11.00am Branch OX1 5AS
29/04/2024 East Yorkshire Talk “Dahlias my way” Tracy Parkinson The Conservative Club, Beverley 7.30pm D.A. HU17 7AP.
03/05/2024 to 05/05/2024
Hants D.A.
Event
Hants D.A. stand and show garden @ BBC N/A Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire, 9.30am to 5.00pm Gardeners’ World Spring Fair @ Beaulieu. United Kingdom, SO42 7ZN each day
Visit the NVS stand and show garden.
08/05/2024 Kent D.A. Talk The threat of the Asian Hornet Vaness Jones Bridge Village Hall, CT4 5JZ 7.30pm
09/05/2024 Midlands Event The Midlands Branch will have a display of N/A Malvern Showground WR13 6NW 9.00am to 6.00pm to 12/05/2024 Branch vegetable plants and be on hand to give each day
advice
11/05/2024 Hants D.A. Event Plant sale - Quality plants for your veg patch N/A Wellow Village Hall, Wellow SO51 10.00am to 1.00pm and flower borders to help you get ahead on 6BR
your plot, expertly grown by NVS members.
25/05/2024 Scottish Meeting Committee Meeting N/A Aytoun Town Hall, Auchterarder 1.00pm Branch PH3 1BJ
28/05/2024 East Yorkshire Talk Talk on Sweet Peas John Mabbett The Conservative Club, Beverley 7.30pm D.A. HU17 7AP.
31/05/2024 to Scottish Event Scone Palace Garden Fair -The Scottish N/A Scone Palace, Perth PH2 7HF 10.00am till 01/06/2024 Branch Branch will be there with Veg Plant sales, leek 5.00pm both days
transplants sales and advice
08/06/2024 Midlands Meeting Committee Meeting N/A TBC, please check the NVS web TBC, please check Branch site the NVS web site
11/06/2024 Hants D.A. Talk/event “Pests and Diseases Live”. Ray puts plant material from our gardens under a
microscope, then super-sizes it on screen to show what is lurking in our plots.
Ray Broughton
Sherfield English Village Hall, 7.30pm Salisbury Rd, Sherfield English,
SO51 6FL
11/06/2024 West Yorkshire Talk Allotment Growing to Showing Fiona Farrar D.A.
Lancasterian School Room, 785 7.30pm for an Low Moor Side Lane, Moortop, 8.00pm start Leeds. LS12 5HY
08/05/2024 Kent D.A. Talk TBA TBA Bridge Village Hall, CT4 5JZ 7.30pm
15/06/2024 Welsh Branch Meeting Committee Meeting N/A The Lamb and Flag, North St, 11.00am Rhayader LD6 5BT
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