A FOND FAREWELL TO UNA EATON

Roy and Una's 60th Wedding Anniversary

The funeral of one of our long serving members, and the wife of our President Roy, took place at All Saint's Church Oxted on Tuesday 20 October 2015.
The church was packed with her family and friends including many from LODHS and the Hurst Green Gardening Club, plus
their respective Chairmen Rick Meakin and Jane Firmin.
Una with her beaming smile and wicked sense of humour will be sadly missed, as will her great advocacy for all things gardening.

Una enjoying her garden

The floral arrangement flowers in front of the altar for the service were as follows:

Poppies - one of Una's favorite flowers
Peony    - for a happy marriage
Ivy         - wedded love

May she rest in peace.

LIMPSFIELD IN BLOOM 2015

WELL DONE LIMPSFIELD!
Great news from the Award ceremony for South and South East in Bloom which took place on 11 September.  Limpsfield won the large village category with a gold medal and also won the Surrey County award for the entry with the highest marks in any category - and a worthy winner of the Community Conservation award.

SEPTEMBER 2015 MONTHLY MEETING

We were pleased to welcome our speaker Martin Pett whose subject was the restoration of the Tudor Garden at Anne of Cleves House in Lewes. The garden is used for the service of teas and opened in 2014, and is well worth a visit when you are in the area.

Martin chats with members following his talk

Martin provides his talks for the benefit of the gardeners charity Perennial. You can find out more about this worthy orgainsation by clicking here.

We also enjoyed our first dahlia competition, with the winners judged by the members present at the meeting. The joint first prize was awarded to Alan Essex and Julie Simpson. Congratulations to them both.

Alan's entry

Julie with her dahlias

HURST GREEN SHOW: SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER

STOP PRESS!!!! Entries  to the Show will be accepted up to Friday (4th) afternoon. 
(Please call Jilly if you think you may need to be later than that.)
Start checking round your garden to see what you may be in a position to exhibit at the Hurst Green Gardening Club show on Saturday 5 September.
Click here to see the schedule, and below is an entry form, or you can email or phone the details through. Entries details are requested by the evening of Wednesday 2 September.
The Show is always a good one and very worth while supporting.

WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER

DAHLIA COMPETITION

To add extra interest to our September meeting on Wednesday 2nd at the Red Cross Hall, Oxted at 8pm we have a Dahlia competition to be judged by those present at the meeting.

We will also have our usual monthly competition.

So, start looking round your garden for likely entries to either or even better both competitions, and let us have a riot of colour to start off the Autumn season.


The speaker at the meeting is Martin Pett and his subject "The Tudor Garden in the 21st Century".

LODHS FLOWER AND PRODUCE SHOW 2015

Well, it all happened at Hazelwood School School, Limpsfield on Saturday 11 July. This is our first time in this splendid venue, but alas, the entries and visitors were not as numerous as anticipated. Nevertheless, we had a splendid show as can been from the photos below.
We wish to thank the Chair of the School Governors, Jo Naismith for presenting the prizes and for the the special prize given by the school.
We must not forget two other very important people our judges; Sylvia Pocock and Carol Buldeath.
Finally, our exhibitors and helpers without whom we wold not have a show. Their contribution is invaluable.
See also our Chairman's "thank you" in the post below.

Getting ready...

.....How do we fit it all in chaps?

A busy time for tea & home made cakes

Debating the quality of the exhibits

All the trophies freshly polished by Jenny

Val Sampson receives her prize from Jo Naismith

Julie Simpson receives her prizes

Roy Eaton receives one of his awards from Jo Naismith

Steve Jones showing his trophies for vegetables

Linda Boakes receives her awards

Pat Thorn gets the award for the domestic classes

CHAIRMAN'S THANK YOU