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.

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.