Friday, 16 December 2011
2012 Programme
Club Meetings at 7pm at Bicker Village Hall
January 19th
"Foraging" Alan Bycraft
February 13th
Outing to Anglesey Abbey
February 16th
"Iron in the blood" Bob Oakes
March 15th
"Soft Fruit Growing" Trevor Rogers
April 19th
"Re-thinking Your Garden" Andrew Sankey
May 17th
"Dreaming Spires" Stuart Dixon
June
Thursday 14th June
Afternoon car-sharing visit to Harrington Hall & Gardens
Summer Event
Saturday 7th July - Garden Safari
July 19th
Members' Evening
Coach Trip (with Wigtoft Garden Club)
Visit to Cambridge Botanical Gardens
Monday 30th July
August 16th
Flower and Produce Show
September 20th
"Winter Hanging Baskets" Pauline Harley
October 18th
AGM plus "Strawberry Glass" Gillian Wing
November 8th
"Donington in Bloom" Jenny Bailey and friends
December
Christmas Event - date to be confirmed
Christmas Event
Bicker and District Garden Club held their Christmas Event on the evening of Thursday 8th December. The members enjoyed refreshments and an entertaining talk by Judy Theobald, of BBC Radio Lincolnshire. This was the final meeting of 2011.
Friday, 2 December 2011
Wildlife Gardening
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We were pleased to welcome Mary Porter as our speaker, on Thursday 17th November. Mary kindly stepped in, at short notice, when our advertised speaker was unable to attend. We were given an interesting, illustrated talk, which had plenty of ideas for attracting wildlife to our gardens. Many of us were pleased to be told that we should leave our gardens 'untidy' during the winter - thus leaving food and shelter for wildlife.
The Flower of the Month competition was won by Ann Massingham with a carnation.
David Hopkins
We were all saddened to hear of the tragic death of David Hopkins who drowned in a boating
accident whilst on a working holiday in Uzbekistan in September. David presented two talks to the Club, one entitled "The History of
the Potato in Lincolnshire"
and another earlier this year about sweet peas. Both were excellent and very much
enjoyed; indeed we had invited him back to address our first meeting in 2012.
David was an International Archaeological Illustrator based in Heckington and
spent his holidays working in various parts of the world. His death is a sad
loss to us all.
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