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FEERING  AND  KELVEDON  GARDEN  CLUB

RHS Affiliated Society No. 10545127 

Hosepipe ban

Under the current Anglian Water hosepipe ban, certain domestic uses are still permitted.  The Anglian Water website describes one permitted use as follows:

"Use of drip or trickle irrigation watering systems fitted with a pressure reducing valve and a timer, that are not handheld and which place water by drip directly onto the soil surface or beneath the soil surface, without any surface run off or dispersion of water through the air using a jet or mist"

Note for 2012 activities:

For Club outing details and Booking Form click here

For Summer Show Schedule and Entry Form click here

Forms can be printed from this website

      Thanks for visiting our website.  We are a friendly group of people who are interested in our gardens & plants, to the extent that we enjoy meeting each other on a regular basis.  Anyone who has a garden no matter how big or how small, window-boxes or just a patio or who finds TV gardening programmes interesting is welcome to join us.

       We hold our meetings in The Institute, Kelvedon on the first Tuesday of each month, save January, August & September, normally at 20:00 (8.00 pm), but the April & December ones start at 19:30 (7:30 pm).  An invited speaker gives us a talk - usually illustrated with slides, sometimes with plants & items that can be bought.  Now and again the talk is on something totally different from horticulture, just by way of a change.  One year the speaker was a fingerprint expert from New Scotland Yard, highly recommended for his light-hearted and fascinating explanation of his work. 

       We have an interval for refreshments during which there is a raffle and our ‘Flower of the Month’ - a rather informal competition.  Members can bring along a single flowering stem from their garden, and those at the meeting place a single coin (a minimum of 10p is suggested) against the one specimen they like best, or, if one is feeling generous, an equal number of coins for each exhibit with an extra one for the bloom preferred.  The value of coins is irrelevant, only the number, & points are awarded to the first three. At the Christmas Social, (yes, we have a Christmas Social, which is a proper sit down meal) the member with the most points is awarded a little trophy to keep until the following year and the accumulated money is sent to Perennial, the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society.
       At the meetings, we also have items such as second-hand gardening books, seeds, plants or produce for sale on a 50/50 basis, i.e. half to the seller, half to Club funds. 
       On top of all these monthly meetings, we have outings.  In high summer, one of our evening meetings is often replaced by a 'special invitation' visit to a garden open only occasionally.  But for many, the highlights are the week-end coach outing or outings, usually in May, June or July. 
         In April in the Institute, we have a Members-only Spring Show, and in late August or early September in the Feering Community Centre a Summer Flower & Vegetable Show (with photography, art, craft, cookery, preserves & youngsters special sections) that is open to all.  Don't be put off by some of the gardening programmes on TV that make you think of months of lavish care and devotion, endless hours of crimping and preening, up at the crack of dawn on Show Day with artists' sable-hair brushes and Cotton Buds to ensure that all is perfection.  Not us!  But the entries and exhibits still win prizes.
       There may well be one for you; all you need is belief that you can do it & an exhibit worthy of yourself.

          If all this makes you feel that you would like to join the Club; it won't break the bank.  Membership for this year is only £5.00 and members also pay £1 on the door for each meeting (refreshments are included).  Part of the cost of some coach trips is subsidised for Club members.  Separate small charges are made for the Christmas Dinner & Social and usually for the evening garden visit.  The Christmas Dinner & Social in Kelvedon Institute on the first Tuesday in December is the last meeting of the year.  The next one after that will be the AGM on the first Tuesday in February. 

For £2 you can come along to any meeting just to give it a try, or for £5 you can join for the year at any meeting and, after the Open Show, for £2 for the remainder of the year.  We look forward to welcoming you. 

                        If you would like to join the Club you can contact
            Roger Pitt———  on    01376 570569
            John Benson —–   on    01376 571127
            Avril Edge ——–  on    01376 570159 

or come along to any meeting and join there & then

If you think that the club might not be for you, then try these Excuses for NOT joining (and the Answers)!

For 2012 EVENTS PROGRAMME - see Year Book p.3  or the Events Calendar (see the website Menu on the left)