Our next meeting is this Sunday 18th February at Wickham Bishops Village Hall. Our guest speaker is Lynne Moore from Moore & Moore Plants based in Billericay. Her talk is ’52 Weeks in the Shade Garden’. Doors open at 1.30pm.

Lynne has gardened for as long as she can remember. Her first memories are picking snowdrops from her grandparents garden (snowdrops are still a favourite). Always encouraged by her grandad Jack, her knowledge and enthusiasm grew until such times that she had her own little garden at her first flat. Grandad duly propagated a number of plants to fill this little plot, many of which Lynne still has today in her current garden. “Without my Grandad I wouldn’t be doing what I am. I owe him so much.” She’s a complete plantaholic who’s always on the look out for something new, different or unusual to grow. Lynne gave up working as a Senior Fingerprint Expert in the Metropolitan Police Forensic Directorate in February 2016 after 25 years service to work with the plants full time. “I love what I do. I’m so lucky.”

We look forward to see you there.