Monday, October 22, 2012

Our November Meeting - Wednesday 21st November



'The Bee-friendly Garden'

(A look at the fantastic world of British bees and the interaction between
our bees and our garden flowers.)


Brought to us by our friend, member and returning popular speaker: 
Neil Lovesey, of Picket Lane Nursery.

Did you know we have only one species of honeybee, 
yet over 200 other species?


This is a change from the published programme, Emma Tomlin, from the Dorset Wildlife Trust will not be able to talk to us - she is expecting a baby, we wish her well!



Christmas Luncheon

At the meeting we shall be taking books to our Christmas meal, which we shall be having at the Royal Oak, very reasonably priced and a delicious menu.



Tuesday, October 2, 2012

"Trekking the Himalayas Through a Nurseryman's Eyes by Clive Groves,"

Our meeting on 17th October welcomed back a most popular friend of the Society: Clive Groves.

He has been trekking in some exotic and challenging parts of the world, and will talked to us about The Himalayas, as well as more tropical climes.

If any of us had been thinking of a Himalayan trip, I think Clive will have opened out eyes to the reality of the serious challenges which are entailed, he was informative, amusing and very helpful in answering lots of questions after his talk.

Clive Groves is of course from Groves nursery, Bridport, see more information here:
Groves Nurseries and almost on our doorstep, Little Groves

They have gone high-tech I noticed, you can now follow them (even in the Himalayas or jungles though?) in all sorts of ways:

Groves on Google+
On YouTube
Facebook
and finally, on Twitter (this one seems to be kept up-to-date very regularly)