Clitheroe Garden Club
New members welcome
Return to Ribblesdale Wanderers
We are returning to our earlier venue of the Cricket and Bowling Club from 2024. Our first meeting will be the AGM on 7 February with a Pie and Peas Supper. Tickets for the supper will be available in advance from Noel Hodgson – usual contact information, see the Newsletter – cost £5.50 each. (if you prefer a vegetarian option, please inform Noel when requesting a ticket.)
Reduced Price Entry Card
For those Garden Club members who are not also members of the RHS the Club has a reduced price entry card which entitles the bearer to a 30% discount for an adult member and adult guest to all 4 RHS gardens. To borrow the card apply at the Sales Hut on Sunday mornings
AGM September 2022
The Chairman’s Report at the 2022 AGM unusually covered the period 2020 to 2022, relating to the Club during the Covid lockdown period. You can read the full report in Newsletters.
John Gornall
There has already been too much bad news this year and I was very sad to hear that club member John Gornall died at home last Saturday 21st November, those who knew John will be aware that he had not been in good health for a while.
John was a longstanding member of the garden club and a regular attender at the speakers meetings along with his wife Margaret. In recent years he was also a valued and much appreciated member of the club hut team on Sunday mornings, shifting bags of compost with an energy that belied his age! Even if you don’t recognise the name the chances are that John has put bags of compost in your car or barrow and maybe given advice based on his many years of gardening and farming.
John was a lovely unassuming man, always ready to help even with the tedious tasks. Those of us who had the pleasure of spending time in his company will miss him.
We send warmest thoughts to Margaret and their family.
AGM – Pie and Peas Supper
The AGM on 5 February 2020 is open to all members. This is followed by an optional Pie and Peas Supper. Tickets at £2.50 each are available, in advance, from our Chairlady Sandra. (There is also a vegetarian option.)
Affiliation to the RHS
You can now read about the advantages of our affiliation to the RHS here.