There are signs of spring already in the garden and in April we start another season of the Bradfield Gardening Club. Thanks to lots of ideas from our new committee, we’ve been able to put together a stimulating programme for this year. We’ve managed to get together a fascinating and varied group of speakers. The Club has scored a ‘first’ by getting the organiser of the Chelsea Flower Show to come and give us a presentation. We are the first gardening club to have achieved this. The Club is going to travel this year with a talk on the plants of New Zealand given by an acclaimed expert. If you’ve ever thought of herbs as just an addition to your kitchen garden, then come to our talk in May and let our speaker change your mind. We have an outing to an outstanding garden, a riverside garden party and an evening visit to an inspirational local garden.

For information on the current season, please visit the Parish Wiki

Membership

Our subscriptions will be the same as 2007. Individual members subscription: £6.00; Couple: £10.00: Individual OAPS: £5.00; Couple: £9.00. Members’ entrance: £3.00; OAPS £2.50. Visitors’ entrance: £5.00; OAPS: £4.00. A plea from those who take the entry fees at each meeting. Please could you very kindly try and bring the right entry money. Membership enquiries should be referred to Elspeth Ewen (address above). Telephone: 0118 9712856. To save postage, in future, we will not be sending out next year’s Newsletter (2009) to those of you who do not wish to renew the current year’s membership.