DERRY WATKINS - SPECIAL PLANTS
Plant Sales and Lectures 2012
List of Gardening Talks I give at end.
Guests are always welcome at garden club lectures.
You can order plants to be collected at any of these events.
For free short practical gardening talks here in the garden, see About the Garden
| PLANT SALES | LECTURES | TIME AND DATE |
Summer Flowers from Seed |
7:30pm Monday 20 February | |
Gravel Gardening, Dorset Garden Society, Poundbury |
2pm, Saturday 4 March |
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| Unusual and Long-Blooming Dorset NCCPG, Kingston Maurward |
7:30pm, Thursday 8 March | |
| Hill Farm Barn to Garden, S. Chilterns, Cookham |
2pm, Saturday 17 March | |
| Pushing the Boundaries Writtle |
7:30 Tuesday 27 March | |
| Parham House, Pulborough, West Sussex | Early Spring (2 x 1/2 hour) | 11-5 Sunday 22 April |
| Great Spring Gardening Event Berrington Hall, near Leominster |
10:30-4:30 Wednesday 25 April | |
| Action Research Great Chalfield, near Bath |
10:30-4 Sunday 6 May | |
| Coach House Garden, Ampney Crucis, Cirencester | 11-3 Friday 1 June | |
| Cottesbrooke Hall Plant Finders Fair Northants | Friday, Saturday, Sunday 24, 25, 26 June |
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| Dorset Garden Trust, Waterston Manor, Puddletown, Dorchester | 10am - 4pm Sunday 1 July | |
| Chenies Manor Plant Fair Rickmansworth |
10am - 5pm Sunday 15 July |
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Unusual and Long-Blooming |
8pm Thursday 27 September | |
Eastwood |
Tuesday 9 October | |
| Unusual and Long-Blooming, Sea Mills | Wednesday 17 October | |
| Gravel Gardening Tamworth in Arden |
7:30 Monday 6 November | |
| Gravel Gardening Fordham, near Ely |
7:30pm, Tuesday 7 November | |
| Unusual and Long-Blooming Norfolk Cottage Garden Soc |
2pm Saturday 10 November | |
| Devon Plant Heritage AGM | 2pm Saturday 17 November | |
| Gravel Gardening Salisbury Plain HPS |
7:30pm Friday 23 November |
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GARDENING TALKS
Illustrated Lectures given by Derry Watkins
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PLANT HUNTING IN SOUTH AFRICA PLANT HUNTING IN SOUTH AFRICA NEW PLANT INTRODUCTIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CONSERVATORY PLANTS DERELICT HILL FARM TO GARDEN GRAVEL GARDENING SUMMER FLOWERS FROM SEED PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES All talks given by Derry Watkins, author of The Complete Greenhouse Book and Sunspaces. For the last twenty years she has run a small nursery called Special Plants. In 1993 she won a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to spend three months in South Africa looking for new plants to introduce into horticulture in England. In 1995 she went back, seed collecting in the Drakensberg. And in 2009, back again for more plant adventures. In 1996 she and her husband bought a derelict barn to convert into a house, and they are gradually converting the fields into a garden (now open for the NGS and by appointment for groups). In 1999 she won a silver medal for her black and white exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show. Her monthly articles on Plant Focus were featured in Gardens Illustrated in 2003. She teaches at the English Gardening School. She will bring plants for sale appropriate to the lecture involved. Group visits to the nursery and garden are also welcome. |
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SPECIAL PLANTS is about 100 miles due west of London, seven miles north of Bath and four miles south of Junction 18 on the M4. Greenways Lane turns west off of the A46 100 yards south of the A420 roundabout. We are not in Cold Ashton village. It is about a mile down a very narrow winding lane. Please drive with care. There is plenty of room to park and turn around when you arrive. |
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Special Plants, Greenways Lane, Cold Ashton, Chippenham, Wilts
UK SN148LA
Telephone: (01225) 891686 E-mail: derry@specialplants.net