2021 SPRING ONLINE LECTURE PROGRAMME
In response to the pandemic, our lectures remain on the second Tuesday of the month, but we have extended the lecture season until May and are bringing them to you via Zoom. Our last lecture starts at 7.30 . Shortly before each lecture, CHS Secretary Anne Ellin will send members a logging-in link. Comprehensive instructions for those new to Zoom have been sent out by Anne and include a step-by-step video made by Vice Chair Peter Wootton-Beard, who will host the meetings.
9 FEBRUARY 7.30 Katherine Crouch Garden Designer: Plants That Should Be Better Known
9 MARCH 7.30 AGM there will be no lecture or slideshow accompanying the business of CHS
16 MARCH 6pm Kim Stoddart Gardening journalist, author: Building Resilience to Extreme Weather in the Veg Patch
13 APRIL Dr Andrew Ormerod Global biotechnologist: The Eden Project Facing Outward
11 MAY Jonny Bruce journalist, botanical illustrator and plantsman: The Garden at Prospect Cottage
Tuesday 9th February 7.30
Katherine Crouch – Plants That Should be Better Known
Katherine is a renowned garden-designer based in Somerset. She has kindly adapted this popular talk for our soil type, climate and coastal location in West Wales. Katherine was awarded BBC Gardener of the Year in 1999 and then BBC Gardener of the Decade in 2008. She went on to achieve a Gold Medal at Chelsea with Kings Seeds.
Tuesday 9 March 7.30
CHS AGM
Our annual AGM will be a business meeting only. As with all our virtual lectures, a link to the meeting will be sent to all our members shortly before the date.
Tuesday 16th March 7.30
Kim Stoddart – Building Resilience to Extreme Weather in the Veg Patch
A popular gardening journalist, editor and trainer, Kim has recently published ‘The Climate Change Garden’ and runs her range of ‘Green Rocket’ courses from her smallholding in Ceredigion, helping people to discover how rewarding it is to grow your own food. She also writes for publications such as the Guardian, and edits the magazine ‘The Organic Way’. Kim’s talks are by reputation, always lively and informative, and her enthusiasm is said to be infectious!
Tuesday 13 April 7.30
Dr Andrew Ormerod – The Eden Project Facing Outwards
Dr Ormerod was one of the founding members of the famous domes of the Eden Project in Cornwall. In recent years, he has focused on several projects related to the international exchange of research and ideas, and current works with the global biotechnology transfer foundation – in this talk he will show us how The Eden Project reaches far beyond the UK’s borders.
Tuesday 11 May 7.30
Jonny Bruce – The Garden at Prospect Cottage
Journalist, botanical illustrator and international plantsman, Jonny Bruce began his horticultural journey at Aberglasney Gardens. He has since been appointed Christopher Lloyd Scholar at Great Dixter, and involved in the protection of Derek Jarman’s garden at Prospect Cottage. He recently moved to the Netherlands to work at one of the largest organic nurseries; De Hessenhof.
AN EMPTY POT WAITING FOR A CHS SIGNIFICANT PLANT
If you have bought a plant from the plant swap table at one of our lectures, it will be quite mature by now – if it is still alive. We would love to hear about it and have a picture of it please – even if it is in memorium.