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What’s on
Please find below a list of some meetings and event’s scheduled from the end of late Sept to Dec. 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, including the start of this Winter’s Zoom talks, thank you. 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
27 Sep
07 Oct
07 Oct
Mansfield D.A.
Welsh Branch
Irish D.A.
Talk
Meeting
Meeting
Talk - Old Costumes from Hardwick Hall (National Trust)
Welsh branch Committee Meeting
Irish Members Meeting
Sonia Preece
N/A
N/A
The Black Bull Public House, Woodhouse Road. Mansfield Woodhouse. Nottingham NG18 2BQ
Lamb & Flag pub in Rhayader, LD6 5BT, Powys.
Moore Hall, South Roscommon, N37 HT68.
7.00pm
11.00am
1.00pm
01 Oct
East Yorkshire D.A.
Show
The D.A.’s 48th Annual Show
Show Schedule on the web site events page)
N/A
Cherry Lane Garden Centre, Hull Bridge Road, Beverly HU17 9RS.
Staging from 9.00am Show opens 1.30pm
07 Oct
Scottish Branch
Meeting
Scottish branch Committee Meeting
N/A
Aytoun Town Hall, Auchterarder PH3 1BJ
1.00pm
07 Oct
Southern Branch
Exam
Judges Exam
N/A
Hythe Community Centre, Southampton SO45 6DU.
TBC
10 Oct
Hants D.A.
Talk
Talk on Peat free Growing, A manufacturer’s perspective by Catherine Dawson of Melcourt Composts
Catherine Dawson
Sherfield English Village Hall, Salisbury Road, Sherfield English SO51 6FL
7.30pm
10 Oct
National
Meeting
Trustee Zoom Meeting
N/A
Zoom
7.30pm
15 Oct
Essex D.A.
Talk & mini competition
Talk by Tracey Mackness, owner of the Giggly Pig Company (Farm to Fork). Competition: one dish of any vegetable, numbers per the Essex DA Mini Show schedule (see NVS website)
Tracey Mackness
Main Hall, Hatfield Peverel Village Hall, CM3 2HP
2.00pm
17 Oct
Bucks D.A.
Talk
Fertilisers for the Kitchen Garden by David Thornton. N.B. David will also be bringing some seeds for sale
David Thornton FNVS
The Community Centre, Church Street, Wingrave HP224PD.
7.30pm
18 Oct
08 Nov
14 Nov
19 Nov
28 Nov
Northeast Derbyshire D.A.
Surrey D.A.
Hants D.A.
Essex D.A.
Bucks D.A.
Talk
Talk
Talk
Meeting
Talk
An evening with Mark Smith aka The Garden Guru
Talk on Plant Breeding Innovation.
A Day in the Life of a Head Gardener. Talk by Fran Clifton, head Gardener of Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire
Annual General Meeting
“Zero to Hero”, a talk by Jason from Autopots. Learn all about the Autopot watering system.
Mark Smith
Jamie Claxton
Fran Clifton
N/A
Jason Ralph Smith
Pleasley Miners Welfare, Chesterfield Road, Pleasley, Mansfield. NG19 7PD
East Horsley Village Hall, Kingston Avenue, Leatherhead, Surrey KT24 6QT
Sherfield English Village Hall, Salisbury Road, Sherfield English SO51 6FL
Meeting Room 1, Hatfield Peverel Village Hall, CM3 2HP
The Community Centre, Church Street, Wingrave HP224PD
7.30pm
8.00pm
7.30am
2.00pm
7.30pm
25 Oct
Mansfield D.A.
Event
Seed Swap and light hearted Quiz Night
N/A
The Black Bull Public House. Woodhouse Road, Mansfield Woodhouse. Nottingham NG18 2BQ
7.00pm
11 Nov
Scottish Branch
Event
Annual Branch Seminar (note new venue)
See Scottish branch SV article
Aytoun Hall , 93 High Street, Auchterarder, PH3 1BJ.
10.00am
15 Nov
North East Derbyshire D.A.
Talk
“The Orchard Year”. Apples, pears, cherries, currants, gooseberries, black- berrys; you name it, Adrian grows it.
Adrian Baggaley
Venue; Pleasely Miners Welfare, Chesterfield Road. NG19 7PD
7.30pm
25 Nov
Welsh Branch
Meeting
Committee Meeting
N/A
The Lamb & Flag pub in Rhayader, LD6 5BT, Powys.
11.00am
12 Dec
Hants D.A.
Talk and AGM
Annual General Meeting and talk
TBC
Sherfield English Village Hall, Salisbury Road, Sherfield English SO51 6FL
7.30pm
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