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Gardeners Association – RHS Affiliated

West Bergholt Gardeners

West Bergholt Gardeners are affiliated to the RHS

Large garden, small window box, devoted gardener or just a passing interest? Why not join your local gardeners club?

Our members are an informal and friendly group of people who meet on the 3rd Monday during the months September to December and February to May. At these meetings they listen to advice and gain inspiration from interesting speakers on a wide range of topics relating to gardening and gardens. Coffee or tea plus a generous raffle (£2 for 3 tickets) are included too. They are always happy to welcome new members or occasional visitors so, if you share a love of plants and flowers, please come along to join in. The programme for the new season is below.

Blunts Hall Garden
Blunts Hall Gardens

Dates for Spring/Early Summer 2025 🌸

  • March 17:
    Joanne Hall of Benton End Flower Farm will talk about starting a smallholding business and how, during and after the pandemic “Flowers saved our Farm”.
  • April 28 (please note this is the 4th Monday of the month due to the previous week being Easter Monday):
    Gail Harland will be talking about that early summer favourite The Peony.
  • May 19:
    Sam Baines of Baines Botanicals will be along to give us ideas and tips for planting summer hanging baskets and containers. 🪴
  • May 13:
     Self-drive visit to Green Island Gardens Ardleigh.
  • June 10:
    Self-drive visit to The Hall, Tendring.
  • July 1:
    Coach trip to Bury St Edmunds in the morning and afternoon visit to nearby Fuller’s Mill Gardens. 🚌

The group also arrange visits to beautiful public and private gardens during the summer months. In 2024 these included a behind the scenes tour of Olivers Plant Specialists near Coggeshall, a coach trip to Hever Castle Gardens in Kent and a return visit to Blunts Hall near Witham. 🚌

Our meetings are held in the Orpen Hall at 7.15 pm and the annual membership fee is £25 or £5 per visit on Speaker nights. However membership for the remainder of this year is only £10, so effectively 3 for the price of 2!

Payment can be made by card or cash.

Join a West Bergholt Open Gardens Committee for 2026

You may recall that we had to cancel last year’s Open Gardens event due to too few gardens participating.  Unfortunately due to changes in circumstances, the Open Garden’s committee wishes to retire from organising the event and so it will not take place this year either.  However, in the same way that a new Village Fete committee has magnificently stepped up, we very much hope that a new committee might form to run a West Bergholt Open Gardens in 2026.  

The current retiring committee would be on hand to offer support and advice from their past experiences.  If you are passionate about gardening and community events, we encourage you to get involved. Please contact us at the email below if you are interested. 

Contact

For further information,  please contact:
[email protected].

We look forward to seeing you.

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If you enjoy gardening you might consider extending your interest to the West Bergholt Allotments or the  Colne Valley Flower Club.