On Sunday 17th April we will be holding our annual Spring Show at Lowdham Village Hall. We would love to have as many entries as possible in all classes. The schedule can be downloaded here. The show is free to enter and there are prizes for the junior classes. Entries need to be in by 11.30am on the day and prize giving is 3.30pm. The show is open from 1pm to 4pm, where there will be refreshments served, with spring flowers, floral arrangements, photographs and paintings to enjoy.
SOUTHWELL FLOWER POD TALK
Our next talk is at 7.30pm, this Thursday, 18th February at the WI Hall, Lowdham. We will be visited by Anna Joyce from the Southwell Flower Pod. She will be talking to us about their work, supporting adults with learning disabilities, developing their horticultural skills and growing cut flowers for local businesses and the community. We plan to follow up this talk with an evening visit during the summer. All are welcome and there is a small fee of £2 to non-members.
SOCIAL EVENING
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.
Just a reminder that this Friday, 8th January we are hosting the social with the History Society, 7.30pm at the Village Hall. We shall we putting on a selection of quizzes and have invited John and Gail Summerfield (who presented our December talk) to run one of these – which should be fun! As we are hosting we ask members of LHS to bring along something savoury or sweet to form part of a light buffet. The Horticultural Society will be providing drinks, so no need to bring these.
I would also like to remind you that our next Coach visit is to Harrogate Spring Show on Sunday 24th April. We are able to buy cheaper tickets in advance so the cost of the trip is very reasonable at £20 for members and £24 for non-members (this includes transport and entry into the show). It would be great to take a coach full and all are welcome. I will bring a sheet for people to sign up at the social and ask for payment well in advance as the tickets need to be pre-purchased.
Hoping to see lots of you on Friday evening.
Seasons Greetings
Well, here we are in December 2015, the bulbs and bulbous plants are coming through and there’s so much colour in the gardens. What’s the date of the annual Spring Show?
Never mind all this, the above image is of the Lowdham Horticultural Society entry in the Lowdham Community Christmas Tree Festival of Journeys which was held on the 12th and 13th December 2015 in St Mary’s Church, Lowdham. The tree was decorated to depict the journey from seed. We hope those of you who visited the church enjoyed this and all the other beautifully decorated Christmas trees.
Finally, after a most enjoyable year of village shows, plant sales, evening talks, socials and wonderful visits may we wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and a Happy,Peaceful and Healthy New Year 2016.
Talk ECHO LOCATION LOCATION – Thurs 19th November 2015
We enjoyed an excellent and most informative talk by Michael Walker of the Nottinghamshire Bat Group which was supported by a selection of images. We were told about the numerous types, sizes and locations of bats, both in the British Isles and also some from around the world. The habitats of bats was explained, this leading us to the importance of habitats in the wild and the need for instance, for bats to have hedgerows to follow in flight. It was explained that we can play our part in helping these fascinating nocturnal animals by having gardens which support lots of insects for the bats to feed on. The group has been succesful in getting Heritage Lottery Funding for a 3 year project to ‘map’ bats in Nottinghamshire.
As a society, it was agreed that we could no doubt help in this cause by inviting our members to consider having a ‘bat detector’ in their gardens for a few days. Volunteers would be contacted, possibly from April or May next year to arrange for a detector to be placed in their garden. If you are interested in taking part in this project please contact us and we will then decide on the best way forward in conjunction with the Nottinghamshire Bat Group.
The speaker, on a number of occasions, referred to bats flying around Lowdham cricket field during the late summer evenings. Having played and been heavily involved in Lowdham cricket club over many years, it was only at the end of the talk that I realised I knew the speaker, he used to sell cricket ‘bats’!!