Fleur Anderson, the MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields, has kindly accepted our invitation to be President of the RGS. We look forward to offering Fleur a warm welcome at future events.
Fleur said:
What a wonderful invitation. I would be very honoured to be your President and would love to come …. to as many events as I can. I love gardening myself and would love to learn a lot from you all and see the outcome of all the lockdown work you have all been doing.
Work is well underway to provide a much needed improved water supply for site 3. New pipework has been laid – involving much work by the ‘Ditch Witch’ trench digger. Next should come some new water tanks, and then Thames Water must connect our new supply. The works are funded by Enable.
Herbs in the City
10th March 2020 7.00-8.00 p.m. £10 Standard £5 Friends / Young Fronds
What role can herbs play in a city, why are they integral to an urban landscape – and are we in the midst of a herbalism resurgence?
Garsington, Rodmell and Sissinghurst: Three Sanctuaries
17 Mar 2020 7:00 – 8:00 pm £10 Standard £5 Friends / Young Fronds
Explore the gardens – real and imagined – created by three pioneering women writers and gardeners in the early twentieth century: Lady Ottoline Morrell, Virginia Woolf, and Vita Sackville West.
Eat Yourself Healthy
10 April 2020 7:00 – 8:00 pm £10 Standard £5 Friends / Young Fronds
Beth Marshall is the author of a newly published book, ‘Grow Yourself Healthy’, a practical guide on how to design and manage edible gardens for nutrition and gut health.
The Garden Museum in London is Britain’s only museum of the art, history and design of gardens at 5 Lambeth Palace Road, London, XGL SE1 7LB
Kitchen Garden Cornucopia
A talk by Sarah Wain, Former Gardens Supervisor at West Dean Gardens. Come and learn some valuable guidelines on how to grow the perfect fruit and vegetables.
Monday 27 January 2020, 7.30 p.m. – at the Community church, Werter Road, SW152LL – Non Members £3.00 donation
Winter Fruit Pruning – a one day workshop
Find out about pruning fruit trees in the winter months in our new one day workshop, led by Sarah Foss, RHS qualified, experienced fruit grower and tutor
Saturday 1st February 2020, 10am-1pm at The Lodge Victorian Walled Garden, Honeywood Walk, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 3NX – cost £35
Booking at https://www.ecolocal.org.uk/highlight/winter-fruit-pruning-one-day-workshop/
Saturday 8 February – Sunday 8 March 2020
Free with Garden Entry
Explore exploring the wonders of Indonesia through Kew’s iconic 25th annual orchid festival. Rainforests and volcanoes will be brought to life inside the Princess of Wales Conservatory through an exotic array of vibrant orchid displays.
After his last very popular visit, Adam from Surrey Sharpeners will again be on site 2, by the store, on 20 October from 10am to at least 2 pm. Sharpening will be done on a first come, first served basis.
The store should be warm and dry this winter with a brand new roof. The insulated roof has two skylights to allow in a little sunshine.
The RHS has opened it’s new ‘state of the art’ welcome building, which includes a cafe, restaurant, shop – including botanical bookstore and a new plant centre.
Watch the opening here
The plant centre is stocked with an amazing array of plants, showcasing British nurseries. At the opening on 10th June the RHS ambassador Alan Tichmarsh spoke about their important contribution to our horticulture.
Alan Tichmarsh said “Millions visit Wisley every year to be inspired by the horticulture on display and now the RHS flagship site will be a permanent showcase to celebrate specialist UK growers….. These plant specialists lovingly grow the rarest, most unusual and beautiful varieties in the world, which thrive in UK gardens because they’re so used to our climate….. I promise to help Greening Great Britain by continuing to promote and buy from specialist UK growers. If the UK’s army of 27 million gardeners were to do the same, we would be protecting the UK from pests and diseases coming in from abroad; helping pollinators which need a diverse range of plants in order to survive; and supporting this vital industry that is worth more than £24 billion to the UK economy.”
Our new style Summer Show will take place on the RGS Allotments Site 2 at 1pm. Come and enjoy meeting other gardeners – lunch in the open air and view the exhibits. The plant stall will be busy as usual and there’s a cake competition for all our bakers.
It’s an opportunity to showcase the lovely things we grow – please do enter for at least one class. There’s lots of advice about how to do this in the ‘Guidance for entrants’ and a full list of classes in the ‘Summer Show Schedule’ – which also has an entry form attached. Bring your exhibits along between 10 am and 12 noon.
Dear Roehampton gardeners!
We’re writing to you from up the hill on Putney Community Gardens! This is our third year and we’re working hard and learning a lot! Some of our raised beds are East facing and surrounded by high blocks so have limited sunshine, they are also far from a water source. We’ve decided that a few hardy pollinator friendly or forageable perennials is the way forwards with managing these plots. We do our best to do swaps, find and use salvaged plants and take cuttings. We therefore wanted to reach out and ask if any of you might be in the process of thinning your perennials at this time of year? If you have any shrubs or cuttings to spare, we plan on visiting the allotments shop on the Pleasance on Sunday the 10th of February and would be delighted to pick up any plants going spare and spread the pollen up the hill! Alternatively feel free to drop off any plants during our gardening session on February the 17th from 10-12 🙂
Thank you for reading and helping out!
Rowan, Floriane, Blae and Charlotte from Putney Community Gardens
| February 20th | Check your email for your invoice. If it hasn’t arrived let us know |
| February 28th | Giving up your allotment? Let us know before this date (by e-mail or post) to avoid April’s rent. |
| March 31st | Pay your invoice before this date (cheque or bank transfer only please) and collect your new membership card from the store. For Associate members (RGS subscription £2.50) cash will be accepted in the store and membership cards will be issued at that time. |
Use our contact form
Email: rgs.sw15@gmail.com
Text: 07736 422 373.
By Post: RGS, The Pleasance Allotments, The Pleasance, London SW15 5HF
The RHS is moving several shows away from the Horticultural Halls in London to RHS gardens. This includes the RHS Early Spring Plant Fair and the RHS Harvest Festival Show both moving to RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Essex. Once the new events building is open at Wisley, one or more of the shows may move from Hyde Hall to Wisley in 2020.
The first London show in 2019 will be the RHS Orchid Show & Plant Fair on 8-10 April.
The relocated shows at Hyde Hall and Wisley will be free for RHS members.
