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Editorial What’s on

We all need a little pick-me-up now and again, and markets & pop ups
I find that if I go out into the garden and sniff a Wednesday 27th January – Online
few fragrant flowers or aromatic herbs, my mood Organic Horticulture Course Starts
changes almost immediately. With 2020 as it was, Saturday 6th February -Valentines
and now venturing into 2021 we have to create the Market at the Rugby Club, 10am to 3pm
world we want around us as best we can. Saturday 6th March – Farmers Market
at the Rugby Club, 10am to 3pm
The garden offers us a world of opportunity to do Saturday 13 & 20th March – Organic
so, from a flower to put in a vase, to potpourris, to Farming Masterclass Greenhouse Tech.
essences used in Aromatherapy, it is basically whatever Saturday 27th March –Autumn
you make it. By engaging with your garden directly, Open Farm & Pottery Event in Not-
by planting, pruning or creating new pathways, you wane, 10am to 4pm
Saturday 4th April – Easter Market at
gain new perspectives and get a better idea of what the Rugby Club, 10am to 3pm
you want from it. Scent is the focus of this issue, Saturday’s 11th & 18th April -
and is an intangible and often overlooked ingredient Introduction to Organic Gardening/
in the garden, but essential in so many ways. I do hope Farming Workshops at Kingfisher Farm.
you find inspiration here, and experiment with Land Events: contact Nancy (pg 50)
aromatic plants in your gardens. S.C 17 April - Art at the Land

GARDENS BOTSWANA Francistown & Maun -
ONLINE ZOOM MEETING Contact: Jenny -
jsm@btcmail.co.bw
on Indigenous Trees Sat 27th February 2-3pm Contact: Petra -
P50 to Join petra@tulia-blueclay.com
Full instructions on Zoom will be sent by email abroad - check out:
Register by email: gardensbotswana@gmail.com https://www.museesdegrasse.
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Publisher: SC Gardens
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Managing Editor: S.Coleman
Contributors: Sanitas, Julia Farmer, Harold Hester, Ian White, Nancy Horenburg,
Miriam Delorie, Petra Strydom, Bettina Kelly, Karin Duthie, Lisa Rautenbach, and
Patricia Lynn Freeman
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All photographic contributions by S.C. unless attributed to other sources or contributors.
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