Gardening Club – May 2026

Our May Club meeting sees the return of speaker Caradoc Doy. In ‘Plant Hunters & Pioneers’ we’ll hear a brief history of the remarkable Veitch family nursery of Exeter and Chelsea, which sent twenty-three plant collectors to numerous countries – mainly during the Victorian period.

The presentation highlights some of the well-known and interesting varieties introduced by these pioneering plant hunters who discovered many hundreds of new species. So successful were they that there is scarcely a garden in the British Isles that does not contain a plant derived from their introductions.

Find out more on Monday, 11th May at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. Non-members are very welcome (£3).

Everyone is welcome to join Coldridge Gardening Club – a family membership is only £15 for the year. Keep an eye out for news of upcoming events on all the usual village channels. If you are not (yet!) a member of the Coldridge Gardening Club, and would like to see what it’s all about, please drop us a line on coldridgegardeningclub@ecomail.uk for more details.

Tracy, Teresa and Nick.

Gardening Club Committee