Winter Programme

The meetings commence at 19:30, at Brighton Road Baptist Church, Brighton Road ad, Horsham,RH13 5BD. The venue has disabled access. All meetings have a raffle and refreshments.

JUBILEE CUP

This is an opportunity for members, including novices and newcomers, to bring along an exhibit of flowers, fruit, pot plants, vegetables, floral arrangements, preserves, cakes, craft items, etc. to our Winter Meetings. Points will be awarded individually.

The person with the highest aggregate from four entries at the end of the Winter Meetings will be awarded the Jubilee Cup. No person may hold this cup for consecutive .

2011- 12 WINTER PROGRAMME

Date	Speaker	Subject
October 4^th	Malcolm Dickie	Subscriptions followed by a general group discussion of how the society functions and fulfils the members needs.
October 18^th	Mike Morris	Mike is Production Director of New Place Nurseries, he will explain how new commercial plants are grown and introduced to the market place
November 1^st	Andrew Gaunt	Andrew works for the government department FERA. He will speak about how they overcome threat and disease to our native plants and trees.
November 15^th	Peter Barwick	Peter will speak to us about all aspects of fruit tree growing.
November 29^th	Sue Taunton	Sue will give us a practical demonstration of how to make festive floral decorations for Christmas.
December 13^th	Committee	Christmas social evening
January 10^th	Committee	AGM followed by a photographic review of places visited during the year.
January 24^th	Derek Santer	The Two Presidents - an enlightening talk from our Chairman.
February 7^th	Sue Brundish	Horsham in Bloom - an informative talk about the plans and teamwork needed to enable Horsham achieve a consistently high standard.
February 21^st	Sue Parmenter	The Chief Executive together with a nursery worker will tell us about all aspects of the work and activities of the Camelia Botnar Foundation.
March 6^th	Sue Taunton	Herbs - Sue will tell us all about herbs, from their history, cultivation, and how to prepare them for cooking
March 20^th	Pam Hunter	. Pam is an enthusiastic gardener and will give a very informative talk about all apects of beekeeping and how we can make our gardens ’bee friendly’