Annual Programme 2020
U3A Garden Know-How Group 2020 Programme Meets third Friday of each month
17th Jan Annual Lunch – Our cash surplus will be used to subsidise this meal David
The Sir Roger Tichborne, Loxwood Rd, Alfold Bars, Billingshurst RH14 0QS - 01403 751873
Locally sourced fresh produce is cooked daily and a wide selection of craft beers and ales are on offer. Situated in Alfold Bars overlooking the open fields of northwest Sussex.
BOOKED 28th November for 24 people
http://www.thetichborne.co.uk/index.php
21st Feb NO MEETING FEBRUARY
20th March Highdown Gardens, Littlehampton Road, Worthing, BN12 6PG Frances & Viv
Best time for Daffodils & Hellebores - Free of Charge
Highdown Gardens are nestled on the South Downs situated between Ferring and Goring.
These stunningly beautiful chalk gardens on Downland countryside, overlooking the sea, are a tranquil haven for all to enjoy. The gardens are home to The National Plant Collection of the Plant Introductions of Sir Fredrick Stern, a unique collection of plants & trees, many unusual plants to be discovered all year round. http://www.highdowngardens.co.uk/
17th April Sedgwick Park House, Sedgwick Park, Horsham, RH13 6QQ Bill & Glennis
Parkland, meadows and woodland. Formal gardens by Harold Peto featuring 20 interlinking ponds, impressive water garden known as The White Sea. Large Horsham stone terraces and lawns look out onto clipped yew hedging and specimen trees. Well stocked herbaceous borders set in the grounds of Grade II listed Ernest George Mansion. One of the finest views of the South Downs, Chanctonbury Ring and Lancing Chapel. Turf labyrinth and organic vegetable garden.
Cost £6 per head plus £2.50 for refreshments A281 towards Cowfold, Hillier Garden Center on R, then 1st R into Sedgwick Lane. At end of lane enter N gates of Sedgwick Park or W gate via Broadwater Lane, from Copsale or Southwater off A24. NGS Sussex P59 No 127
https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/19808/
15th May Saffron Gate, Tickners Heath, Alfold, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 8HU Margaret Morris
This garden is a plant lovers paradise, colour for most of the year, many unusual plants and a plethora of clematis of all shapes and sizes as featured in the RHS garden magazine. A new bed with scented roses has been added. A281 between Guildford & Horsham approx 8m turn at Alfold crossways follow signs for Dunsfold. Do not turn at A281 T-lights for Dunsfold (wrong road).
NGS SurreyP32 No 42 https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/31967/
19th June Sienna Wood, Coombe Hill Road, East Grinstead, RH19 4LY Robin
Explore our beautiful 3½ acre garden, picturesque lakeside walks and 6-acre ancient woodland behind. Start at the herbaceous borders surrounding the croquet lawn, through the formal rose garden to the lawns and summer borders; then down through the arboretum to the lake and back past the exotic border, orchard and vegetable garden. Many unusual trees and shrubs.
Garden is ½m down Coombe Hill Rd on L. NGS Sussex P60 No131
https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/15274/
OR
2 Chinthurst Lodge, Wonersh Common, Wonersh, Guildford, GU5 0PR
One-acre year-round enthusiast’s atmospheric garden divided into rooms. Herbaceous borders, dramatic white garden, specimen trees and shrubs, gravel garden with water feature, small kitchen garden, fruit cage, two wells, ornamental ponds, herb parterre and millennium parterre garden.
From A281 at Shalford turn E onto B2128 towards Wonersh. Just after Waverley sign, before village, garden on R, via stable entrance opposite Little Tangley.
NGS Surrey P12 No 12
https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/11569/
17th July Parsonage Farm, Kirdford, Sussex RH14 0NH David
This is a major garden in a beautiful setting developed over 20 years with a fruit theme and many unusual plants. It is formally laid out on a grand scale with long vistas, a walled garden with borders in apricot, orange, scarlet and crimson; topiary walk; pleached lime allée; tulip tree avenue; rose borders; large vegetable garden with trained fruit; turf amphitheatre; lake; informal autumn shrubbery and jungle walk. The garden is 5 miles NE of Petworth. From centre of Kirdford (before church) turn Right, through village, past Forresters PH on Right. The entrance is on the Left, just past the Right turn to Plaistow.
Sussex NGS page 53 No 105
https://www.ngs.org.uk/find-a-garden/garden/18581/
21st August The Old Rectory, Sandy Lane, Brewer Street, Bletchingley, Surrey, RH1 4QW Christine
Georgian Manor House (not open). Quintessential Italianate topiary garden, statuary, box parterres, courtyard with columns, water features, antique terracotta pots. Much of the 4-acre garden is the subject of ongoing reclamation. This includes the ancient moat, woodland with fine specimen trees, one of the largest Tulip trees in the country, a rill, sunken and exotic garden.
Surrey NGS P28 No 36
https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/21802/
18th Sept Plant Swap - don’t forget this when you’re sorting out your garden Frances
16th Oct Sheffield Park, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 3QX Christine & Brian
Acres of landscape garden bordered by historic parkland and woodland. The garden is a horticultural work of art formed through centuries of landscape design, with influences of 'Capability' Brown and Humphry Repton. Four lakes form the heart of the garden, with paths circulating through the glades and wooded areas surrounding them.
National Trust – Don’t forget your membership Cards
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sheffield-park-and-garden
27th Nov Annual planning meeting Rookwood – David
11.00 Coffee and biscuits
NOTE ONE WEEK LATER DUE TO DAVID’s HOLIDAY
NO MEETING IN DECEMBER