Gardening

Our November speaker was Evelyn Shaw who produced some lovely flower arrangements covering autumn through until Christmas. We had a full house for the evening and it was good to see so many people there. Our Christmas meal will be on 1 December at The Ship - do ring Graham and Jane on 770919 if you haven't chosen your menu.

Thanks to everyone who came to the mini Harvest Show - it was a great evening with lots of entries and many congratulations to Mrs Jean Bolland who won the prize for Overall Winner. At our next meeting, we will have a talk from one of the gardeners from Sizergh Castle.

The Parish Council is working with the Allotment Group to secure a small piece of land for Allotments. However there is much more demand than we can meet at present and if anybody has any land they would like to put forward we would be interested in hearing from them. There would need to be a commercial arrangement to rent the land and a minimum time period would need to be negotiated.

The Parish Council in collaboration with the Horticultural Society has been out and about judging the village gardens and they have made their decision. The Judges have been most impressed by the standard especially considering the weather we have had. Congratulations to all the winners and also to everybody in the village who take pride in their gardens.

A committee has now been elected and will be working at trying to secure funding and suitable land for allotments. It was agreed that 1-2 acres of land would be ideal.

Many thanks to all of you who visited the Caton & Brookhouse Gardening Club stand. We had a great day and a very good response to our competitions.

The results are as follows:

Miniature Gardens:

• 1st prize Christopher Fawcett
• 2nd Sean Milligan
• 3rd Lee Milligan

Photograph with a Floral Theme:

Friday 19th June between 5pm and 8pm and Saturday 20th June between 12noon and 4pm.

Friday 19th June between 5pm and 8pm and Saturday 20th June between 12noon and 4pm.

On June 11th we have arranged a special evening trip to a garden which has been featured in Amateur Gardening and on the BBC. This is Fell Yeat near Casterton, a one acre garden with all sorts in it including the national collection of ligularia. It is not hilly with slight inclines. And there is a nursery next door where you can buy plants.

For a 50p entrance fee come along and enjoy coffee and biscuits in the Victoria Institute – and maybe buy some plants in aid of the Caton and Brookhouse Gardening Club. This is our major fund raising event of the year and always turns out to be a friendly sociable gathering even if you don’t find anything to buy.