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Saturday 25 January 2025 at 2pm
Marchesi Centre, Holly Road, off Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AF
In a late change to the advertised lecture, Pat Murphy will talk about the best snowdrop cultivars, what to look at in snowdrops and the various species which can be found in the Lake District.
Pat is a regular gardener at Holehird and an authority on a number of different plants, most notably meconopsis, geraniums and galanthus. She has been a volunteer at Holehird for many years and lives in Ambleside. We are grateful to Pat for stepping in to cover this slot, caused by the non-availability of the previously-announced speaker.
This lecture is free and is open to non-members of the LHS.
Saturday 22 February 2025, 2pm
Marchesi Centre, Holly Road, off Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AF
Elizabeth Mooney is a Horticulturalist at the Edible Gardens, RHS Wisley
In this talk she will look at the problems with our food system and how growing your own can help to address this, along with some potential food crops we may all be growing and eating in the future.
This lecture is free and open to non-members of the LHS.
29 March 2025, 2pm
Marchesi Centre, Holly Road, off Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AF
Dr Andrew Ward is the owner of Norwell Nursery which has more than 20 beds filled with nothing but sharp sand. Plants grown include over 30 different echinaceas, plus hundreds of North American, Mediterranean and alpine plants thriving on an austere diet. Among many others, these include salvias, nepeta, gaura, bulbs, grasses and coreopsis.
This lecture is free and is open to non-members as well as LHS members.