Village Gardeners
This month we had a very interesting and well-illustrated talk on what can go
wrong in the garden, entitled "You should have been here last week".
The speaker, Margaret Lynch is a landscape consultant and works in partnership with another local garden designer, John Drake. She has a lovely two and a half acre garden in Meldreth, with which she has had many trials and tribulations. She's very keen on conservation and has spent years finding plants that naturalise well and are what she calls "good doers"! Everyone needs good doers in their garden.
Despite flooding, regular assaults on her plants by muntjack, squirrels, mice - who are particularly fond of her crocus bulbs - ducks and disease, her skills and patience are now very evident: wonderful campanulas, drifts of narcissi, chinadoxa and tulips: tall elegant eremurus, iris and hellebores, pergolas and ponds.
We talked about fashions in gardening and decided that by and large we preferred the good old fashioned borders and beautiful colours, rather than the current trend of hard landscaping and foliage. However if you have water in your garden, it's got to be moving!
The March meeting is on Tuesday 15th, when Mike Day from NAIB will talk to us about unusual vegetables.
NB. The coach for our WISLEY trip is now organised - Saturday 16th July. Let us know if you are interested in coming - the more the merrier.