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Freeland Gardening Club is a very friendly and successful club with over 100 members and is led by an enthusiastic committee. It was formed to promote interest in gardening and horticulture in general.

  Membership is open to anyone interested in gardening on payment of a joining fee of £5 and an annual subscription fee of £12 (junior members are welcome free).

Visitors are welcomed at £3.00 per meeting.

The Club visited Coughton Court in Warwickshire with its wonderful house and gardens in July 2011

There is a programme of talks, discussions, demonstrations and visits to places of horticultural interest, and numerous other Club activities are promoted as appropriate events arise.

We meet regularly on the fourth Monday of most months, except when the date coincides with a Bank Holiday. There is no meeting in December and the August meeting is a social event. The Club meets in Freeland Hall at 7.30 p.m. 

Meetings consist of talks or demonstrations followed by a social time for refreshments. There is a Bring and Buy Stall and proceeds are donated to local charities.

Club members enjoying the sunshine on the visit to Exbury Gardens in May 2011.  Photo by Ray & Jill Evans (on the right) - with a little help from Adobe Photoshop to get them both in the picture!

The 2012 programme is:

January,   Monday 23rd: “What have plants ever done for us?” by Timothy Walker

February, Monday 27th: “Imaginative containers with staying power” by Tim Miles

March,  Monday 26th: “Not ours but ours to look after” a tour of the National Parks of England &         Wales by Adrian Thornton

            Saturday 21st: Day visit to R.H.S. Wisley

April,   Monday 23rd: “A Spring visit to Japan” by Duncan Coombs

May,    Monday 28th:  “Garden ponds and water features” by Philip Aubury

June,  Sunday 24th: Day visit to Losely Park, Surrey

            Monday 25th: “So many plants so little space” by Bob Brown

July,    Monday 23rd: “Don’t throw it away it’s in the bag” by Stuart Phillips

August,  Monday 20th: GARDENING CLUB SOCIAL

September,  Monday 24th “The world’s first farmers” by Cyril Aydon

October,  Saturday 20th  Day visit to Westonbirt

                 Monday 22nd:  Gardening Club A.G.M.

November,  Monday 26th: “The Night Garden” by Peter Jones

The Club participates in local community events:  Some members produce flower arrangements for St Mary’s Church Annual Flower Festival while others maintain the Village Pump at the Green and decorate it with seasonal flowers.

We have an on-going spring bulb planting project with thousands of bulbs now enhancing the roadside throughout the Village and around the flower beds of the new Freeland Hall.

The 2011-2012 Committee is:

Chairperson: Jill Evans  tel: 881-420

Secretary: Diana Westbury  tel: 881-441

Treasurer: Brian Wildblood  tel: 883-968

Programme Secretary: Ray Evans  Tel: 881-420

Committee: Janet Dalton; Diane Fairfield; Margaret Hewitt; Terry Jones; Peter Newell; Caroline Taylor.

Some of the wonderful displays of Rhododendrons seen during a Club visit to Exbury Gardens near Beaulieu, Hampshire in May 2011