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Freeland Gardening Club is a very friendly and successful club with over 100 members and is led by an enthusiastic committee. It was formed to promote interest in gardening and horticulture in general.

  Membership is open to anyone interested in gardening on payment of a joining fee of £5 and an annual subscription fee of £10 (junior members are welcome free).

Visitors are welcomed at £2.00 per meeting.

The Club visited the spectacular Hillier Gardens (Hampshire) in October 2009

There is a programme of talks, discussions, demonstrations and visits to places of horticultural interest, and numerous other Club activities are promoted as appropriate events arise.

We meet regularly on the fourth Monday of most months, except when the date coincides with a Bank Holiday. There is no meeting in December and the August meeting is a social event. The Club meets in the Village Hall at 7.30 p.m.

Meetings consist of talks or demonstrations followed by a social time for refreshments. There is a Bring and Buy Stall and proceeds are donated to local charities connected with gardening.

Club members compare the plants they have bought at the end of a visit to RHS Wisley in May 2009

The 2010 programme is:

January,   Monday 25th: “Delights of the Kitchen Garden” by Tim Miles

February, Monday 22nd: “Oxfordshire Butterflies and Orchids” by Malcolm Brownswood

March,  Monday 22nd: “The Labour Saving Garden” by Peter Jones

April,   Monday 26th: “Charles Darwin” by Cyril Aydon

May,  Monday 24th: “Pruning - Why, When and How” by Philip Aubury

June,  Saturday 12th: Visit to COTON MANOR

           Monday 28th: “Sex, Lies and Putrefaction” by Timothy Walker

July,  Wednesday 7th: Visit to WYTHAM WOODS

          Monday 26th: “Plants for Difficult Places” by Janet Cropley

August,  Monday 23rd: CLUB SOCIAL

September, Saturday 25th Visit to MALVERN SHOW

                     Monday 27th “Four French Gardens - from Rhone to Giverny” by Brian Davis

October,  Monday 25th:  A.G.M. followed by Ray Evans “Beautiful Garden Visits”

November,  Monday 22nd: “Beneficial Creatures in the Garden” by Roger Umpleby

The Club participates in local community events:  Some members produce flower arrangements for St Mary’s Church Annual Flower Festival while others maintain the Village Pump at the Green and decorate it with seasonal flowers.

We have an on-going spring bulb planting project with thousands of bulbs now enhancing the roadside throughout the Village and  members also participate in and promote the annual Freeland Open Gardens Event.

The 2009-2010 Committee is:

Chairperson: Jill Evans  tel: 881-420

Secretary: Diana Westbury  tel: 881-441

Treasurer: Brian Wildblood  tel: 883-968

Programme Secretary: Ray Evans  Tel: 881-420

Committee: Janet Dalton; Diane Fairfield; Margaret Hewitt; Terry Jones; Peter Newell; Caroline Taylor.

Christine Harper showed off her beautiful Owls at the Club AGM