| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Group email: | Gardening group |
| When: | Monthly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm 3rd Thursday of the month but trips and meetings will be organised on WhatsApp, as and when it is convenient. |
We have started a WhatsApp group where we communicate with one another, arrange trips and lifts, make suggestions, ask advice, post pictures, swap plants and anything else with a horticulture connection.
We have decided to visit our members gardens and open-gardens in the summer months. To visit garden centers, near and far in early Spring and late Autumn, and not to meet in December, January and February but to keep in contact via WhatsApp.
In November we will visit Louth Garden Centre. The Nights will be drawing in and we don't want to travel far.
If you would like to join the group, use the link at the top to contact Vic , the leader, and give him your mobile number so you can be added to the WhatsApp group and have all the information needed to take part in the trips and gatherings.
Gardening Group Blog Posts
17 October 2025
We had a big trip to Sleaford for our October meeting. 14 of us car shared. The trip was in 2 parts, first we visited the garden of Clare's late mother and then we went onto Anwick Garden Centre for lunch and a look round. There are a lot of photos but there was so much to see.
Clare's mum's house is soon to be sold. This is a garden we all would have dreamed of owning in our younger days. It is 3 acres, triangular shaped and edged by a train track on one side and the River Slea on the other. To relieve flooding several ponds have been added with some success. Clare's mum was an enthusiastic member of Sleaford in Bloom and organised much of the winning displays from this garden in her younger years. The garden has also won the East Midlands in Bloom Wildlife Award in the past. The garden is divided into several areas, grasses to hide the train line, a wildlife patch, an ornamental pond, some flower areas, fruit trees greenhouses and polytunnels. We all came armed with secateurs and trowels and took several cutting and picked the fruit. It was a dry, mild day and we all really enjoyed it and are so grateful to Clare for inviting us.
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We all returned to our cars to drive 15 minutes to Anwick Garden Centre aka J. Parkers Garden Centre, where we had a good lunch. The garden Centre was rather hidden down a back lane, but it was nice, clean, well kept and had a good variety of indoor and outdoor plants and garden paraphernalia (and some Christmas items). They also famously sell Parkers Dutch bulbs. There were 6 rows of bulbs of every conceivable type and colour. It was so difficult to choose but most of us left with at least one packet. Grimsby and Cleethorpes will be very colourful next spring. We all had a lovely day and returned to Grimsby by 4:30.
18 September 2025
The September meeting was held in Fergus' restful garden. There were 12 of us, and after being welcomed with tea and cakes, we had a tour around the gardens, front, back and side. We admired the single fruit produced by his genuine plum tree and commiserated with the tree masquerading as another plum tree, which has yet to produce anything and will soon be mulch. Suggestions were made to fill a sunless area and raising successful tomatoes. We all admired his green lush lawns. We exchanged plants and bulbs. We all had a good natter, not all garden related! The weather was really mild and warm so we didn't need to resort to plan B which was to decamp to Pennels.
21st August 2025
The First Garden Visit
On a sunny day in August, Clare led a group to visit the Secret Sarden in Louth. It certainly is well hidden! It looks like an ordinary house in an ordinary street but the garden at the back is huge and is bursting with exotic and common plants arranged around little separate areas. 8 members went and enjoyed refreshments there as well as the inspiring garden.
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This is Jenny who started and ran our garden group with great enthusiasm and efficiency. Sadly she became ill and moved South to live near her family. We are sorry to hear that she recently died.