Welcome to the Earlsdon Gardening Club – a long-established, friendly club for gardeners of all levels in Coventry and beyond. We meet 10 times a year on the 2nd Monday of the month for talks and demonstrations on a wide variety of gardening topics. (see Contact Us for more details)
Our Next Meeting
Monday 13th May 2024. Doors open 7.30pm.
Dark and Desirable. A talk from Paul Green
Visitors (£3) and new members are always welcome.
Day trips
Friday April 19th Thenford Gardens and Arboretum, the home of Lord Heseltine, We’ll be leaving around 10.30am and calling at The National Herb Centre, Warmington on the way.
Cost: £30 to include admission charge. Please email if you’d like a seat
Tuesday June 11th RHS Harlow Carr. £20. We will be taking payment at the May meeting
Our Monthly Competition
At every club meeting – the monthly Colour in The Garden competition
Cut and bring along between 1-3 stems of flowers or foliage for a chance to win a bottle of wine.
Size doesn’t matter – as long as you’ve picked it from your own garden, window-box or pot!
2023 Newsletter and Membership Renewal/Enrolment
Download copies of our summer Newsletter and this year’s Membership Form
The BBC has been to Earlsdon
Listen in live on April 14th and 21st at 3pm. Or catch up on the BBC Sounds app.
Latest News:
- Trip to ThenfordWe had a sunny day for our recent club trip to The National Herb Centre at Warmington followed by Thenford Gardens and Arboretum, the renowned garden of Lord and Lady Heseltine. Here’s a few of our group braving the windy conditions for a photo opportunity in front of the famous Rill
- The Dirt – new website for Horticulture NewsWe’ve just heard about a new website for gardeners and the horticulture industry – thedirt.news brings together news from every corner of the horticulture industry, condensed onto a single platform. Accessible to all, thedirt.news informs, enlightens and entertains with light hearted to more serious industry news, digests and reviews.
- GQT at Balsall Common in FebruaryBalsall & District Horticultural Society are hosting a recording session for the BBC Gardeners’ Question Time on February 13th 2024. Contact details for tickets are shown below.
- Trip to BatsfordOn October 18th the club visited Batsford Arboretum in the Cotswolds. We’d booked it some months earlier and had kept our fingers crossed for good weather and good autumn colour. There was a fabulous aroma from the Toffee Apple tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) but we were a bit early for the Acers and most of the… Read more: Trip to Batsford
- Margaret DysonWe were sad to hear that Margaret Dyson passed away recently. She was a long time, supportive member of the club who looked after the archive files for many years. Her funeral will be at Canley Crematorium on Wednesday 11th October at 10.30am. Our condolences go to all her family and friends