We start our Gardening Club year this Wednesday, 8th January with a talk by Richard Preston who will be telling us about the Primrose Garden, Steeple Aston. This is an attractive garden with a very interesting history including a lovely ancient walled garden. An evening visit to the garden has been arranged for the 8th July. The talk will start…
A wonderful show this year. The photos speak for themselves. many thanks to the judges for their supportive comments.
Aynho Gardening Club’s Annual Flower and Vegetable Show will be held in the Village Hall on Saturday 17th August. The Committee put in a huge amount of time and effort to put this show on and it is the participants who make it fun, so do please join in. The Show is open to all residents…
Come rain or shine the gardeners had plenty of both on the visit to the spectacular Savill Garden. Rhododendrons and Azaleas were in full bloom. Goslings were happily eating on the grass while a pheasant looked on enviously.
Gardening Club’s annual Flower and Vegetable Show will be held in the Village Hall on Saturday 18th August. Tea and cakes will be served during the afternoon and there will be a raffle as usual. For those of you who enjoy the produce, this will be auctioned at the end of the afternoon. The Show…
On Wednesday 14th March 38 of us boarded the coach for a day out to Ashwood Nurseries at Kingswinford in the West Midlands. We arrived in time to have a reviving coffee in their excellent café before meeting our guide for a tour of ‘John’s Garden’. This is a 3 acre private garden which runs…
I would like to thank everyone who helped to set -up and run the Flower and Vegetable show. It is always absolutely exhausting and you all worked so hard. Hopefully we will impress the producers of ‘ Village of the Year’. Thank you also to everyone who entered or came along on the day. It…
Gardening Club’s Flower and Vegetable Show will be held in the Village Hall on Saturday 19th August. The show is open to all residents of Aynho so please enter as many classes as you can. Tea and cakes will be served during the afternoon and there will be a raffle as usual. For those of…
On a warm Spring evening last Wednesday Gardening Club members visited the delightful garden at Placketts, near the library in Adderbury. We were greeted by the owner and creator, Dr White, who gave a friendly but knowledgeable tour of his garden and answered all our questions. The variety and colour in a relatively small area…
A full coach took us to Wisley, the RHS gardens, just off the M25 last Wednesday. There was lots of sunshine and one or two sudden showers, but we spent a very enjoyable day exploring everything from the tropical plants in the glasshouses to the trial gardens and the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden. there was a…