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Events

Shed Opening:

The Trading Shed on Oakley Road has the following potato varieties for sale:

Salad: Charlotte, Nicola, Anya in 2kg nets GBP 2.75

First Earlies: Arran pilot, Foremost, Lady Christi, Pentland Javelin in 3kg nets GBP 3

Maincrop: Desiree (red), king Edwards, Pentland Crown in 3kg nets GBP 3

Maincrop: Red Rooster (red) in 2kg nets GBP 2.75

Demand for seed potatoes is always high - so come early for the most choice.

Don't forget to get your compost here too - best quality Roffrey - much better than the standard diy shop compost for a cheaper price - and our shed staff will even load it in your car for you.  What more can you want!  Come down and meet us.

Next Talk :Hardy Orchids with Malcolm Brownsward

Wednesday 22nd April starting at 7:45pm at Caversham Primary School Hemdean Road.

Malcolm is a retired chemist and has over 30 years experience of lecturing and horticulture and wildlife photography. He is a member of HPS, AGS and is the Show Secretary for the Hardy Orchid Society. His particular interests are pleiones, European and Asian hardy orchids, alpines, Japanese gardens and bonsai. He has contributed to “The Pleione Review” and the Journal of the Hardy Orchid Society. In 2007 Malcolm won a RHS Banksian medal at the Hardy Orchid Society show.

Malcolm is going to provide three different presentations during the evening. He is going to start with a 5 minute audio visual entitled “European Orchids”.

The main presentation will be “Hardy Orchids” which will cover European and Asian species and hybrids: How to grow and propagate them in your garden and cold greenhouses.

To finish off the evening Malcolm will be showing another audio visual called “Hartslock” which is about the butterflies and wild orchids in a nature reserve near Goring.

Malcolm hopes to be able to bring along a few orchids and other interesting plants for sale.

We anticipate that this evening will be varied and informative and we hope that you will join us for what should prove to be a very enjoyable evening.

Next Plant Sale : our next sale is Saturday May 9th at the Oakley Road site, starts 10am.  Donate your spare plants and seeds then buy something new! 

Autumn Show: See the photos and results from last year's show held as part of the Caversham festival on 13th September 2008.

Click to see all the results and photos

Who we are

We are a gardening club of around 600 members in Caversham, Reading, Berkshire.  Our aims are to enjoy gardening and to help and encourage others to do so too.  We are affiliated to the Royal Horticultural Society.

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