OUR VIRTUAL SUMMER SHOW

We asked our members to send us a picture of their garden this summer or something that they had grown this year that they were really pleased with. Here are some of our lovely gardens and photos. Thank you to everyone who took part.

colourful summer pots
A stunning clematis
Summer colour
Beautiful sunflowers
Luscious peonies – short but sweet
Summer show border
Summer border – all plants bought from the LHS plant sale!
A begonia bonanza!
Stunning summer colours!
What an enormous fatsia!
‘ For Your Eyes Only’ Rose
Vibrant hollyhocks
Rock roses
A lockdown pallet planter!
A bumper crop of homegrown blueberries.

SUMMER SHOW CANCELLED

Sadly, we have had to make the decision to cancel this year’s Summer Show.  With current guidance and social distancing rules, we cannot see any way that we could safely and successfully run the show.  We will try and run some virtual activities and competitions instead, so please keep looking after those show potatoes!

It is a real shame as we know most people’s gardens have received more attention this year than ever before and if you are anything like us you are growing all sorts of vegetables and fruit too.

Hopefully we can return even bigger and better for our Summer Show in 2021.

In Memoriam

In recent weeks, the death has occurred of one of our Life Members, Joan Jervis. Joan was an active member of Lowdham Horticultural Society for many years until she moved away from Lowdham to live in Lincolnshire. Renowned for her baking, she won the cup on several occasions. She also ran Lowdham Brownies and was lollipop lady at the crossing near the Magna Charta for many years.
She died peacefully in a nursing home aged 87.

PLANT SALE

This year we have had to run our annual plant sale online. We have contacted our members and processed their orders. We still have some bedding plants, vegetables and tomatoes that can be ordered by anyone who lives locally to Lowdham. If you would like an order form and details of how to place an order with us please contact us via the website.

OUR VIRTUAL SPRING SHOW

Here are a selection of photographs of spring plants and gardens sent in by our members in the absence of this year’s Spring Show. We hope that you enjoy them.

Muscari
Polyanthus
Primroses
Pulmonaria
viola
white muscari
Iberis
euphorbia
dwarf tulip
dorinicum
chionodoxa pink giant
bergenia
Marsh Marigold
Viburnum
spring flowers
a selection of cacti and succulents
Auricula collection
tulips
a beautiful spring border
double daffodils
spot the gnome!
Marsh Marigolds
Snakes head fritillary
Members’ daffodils – ‘Rainbow’
a close up of Rainbow daffodils
fritillary
primrose
a spring selection
spring blossom
Pieris Japonica
a close up of the beautiful leaves
pink primula
a beautiful clematis
A spring border
one happy chicken!
Flowering quince
violas
Skimmia Kew Green
Hellebores
A spring selection
Pansies
Violas
A beautiful speckled hellebore
primula
violas
Hellebore
primula
Forsythia
cyclamen
Camellia
Some more members’ bulbs – ‘Rainbow’
a selection of primula
purple primroses
Another happy chicken!
a stunning tulip
daffodils naturalising
a colourful camellia
hyacinth
multi-headed daffodils
Anemone
Cowslips
Spring colour in a pot
beautiful hellebore
a spring selection
Pulsatilla Vulgaris – Pasque Flower
Trillium
A stunning Camellia
Primula
Spring colour
Multi-headed daffodils
ready for the show!
a stunning succulent
Clivia
A colourful spot!
A lovely mixture
Primula denticulata
a beautiful pot of multi-headed daffodils
Some more members’ daffodils, well timed to be in flower for Show Day!