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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Maggi Young on July 12, 2013, 11:58:10 AM
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'So many plants, so little space!'
Bob Brown, owner of Cotswold Garden Flowers (http://www.cgf.net/), renowned plantsman, speaker and garden writer, will be giving a talk at Cambo on Friday 27 September.
He is known as an entertaining and down-to-earth speaker guaranteed to inspire any gardener.
His specialist nursery based in Evesham stocks a huge range of unusual perennials currently listing over 1800 plant varieties with the aim of offering good old-fashioned plants and newly introduced plants bred for not only colour and form but for vigour as well, and plants newly introduced from the wild.
Friday 27th September 2013
Time: 6.30 for 7.00pm with gardens open from 5.00pm.
Tickets are £18.00 (RHS members and Friends of Cambo Gardens £15.00) and include wine and nibbles and access to the Walled Garden.
Available for the office at Cambo - 01333 450054.
Cambo Estate (http://www.camboestate.com)
Kingsbarns
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 8QD
www.camboestate.com (http://www.camboestate.com)
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Bob Brown will be in Ireland Saturday 27th July, at Altamont Gardens, County Carlow, Ireland. He will be doing a lecture with plant material & will also have a wide rang of easy and unusaul perennials for sale. For more info click http://www.carlowgardentrail.com/FFT/altamont_2013.html (http://www.carlowgardentrail.com/FFT/altamont_2013.html)
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Bob Brown pictured at Great Dixter by Will Giles (http://www.exoticgarden.com/)
CGF have an Open day at their roduction nursery in Offenham, August 17th 10.30am-3.00pm Includes a tour of Bobs' private collection, a talk & light lunch. £25 per person.
To book, please call 01386 422829 or email info@cgf.net
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An apt title, as every time I have found a plant I like the look of on the Cotswold Garden Plants web site, it has turned out that the plant has been disposed of as insufficiently interesting or insufficiently garden-worthy. I am too far away to attend either talk but If I were in the audience I would suggest that one solution to the problem of the title is an 'Adopt a Plant' scheme where Bob offers his unwanted plants free to good homes, rather than putting them down on the compost heap.
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Bob gave a very good talk here in Cork some time ago, and several nice plants I got from him are thriving.