Plant Stall at Pentlow Mill

Many thanks to all those who bought plants and brochures etc at the Pentlow Mill visit on Saturday. We raised £50 pounds for the Pentlow Church Restoration Fund. Many apologies that we did not have more plants for sale but we were defeated by the flaming July and Soggy August.

Andrew Clarke

Helmingham Hall Plant sale Sunday 17th September

Last minute details about our plant sale this coming Sunday

The Suffolk group alwqays have a large and varied table of plants for sale. These are raised by the group, headed by our propagation officer Robert Shepperson, who will answer any questions you may have about growing conditions

 Included we will have for sale a number of rare minature Narcissus twin scaled by us and now large enough for sale

We will have a greengage called Hengrave Gage, a Suffolk gage, and a birch raised by Suffolk gardener Bernard Tickner called Betula 'Silver Grace'

Both these trees have been grafted.

The following nurseries will be attending the NCCPG sale this coming Sunday.

Aromafolia
Rose Cottage Plants
Harveys garden Plants
Sheila Chapman Clematis
Walnut Tree garden Nursery
The Place for Plants
Madrona Nursery
Chilton Quality Plants
John Foster
Fleur Waters
Pennycross Plants
The Plantsmans Preference
Fernatix
Woottens
Herbal Haven
Sue Wooster - campanulas
Monksilver
Rougham Hall Nursery
Suffolk Gardens Trust
Send a Cow
Wood Alfresco
SCC Composting
Creake Plant Centre
Jan Taylor

A new National Collection for Suffolk

Sarah Cook had been granted provisional status for her new National Collections of Iris (Sir Cedric Morris introductions)

Iris 'Benton Nigel'

 

As the name implies the Iris are those bred by Sir Cedric Morris in his garden at Benton End in Suffolk in the 1950's.

 

Sarah is still on the lookout for more of Sir Cedric's introductions and if another blogger reading this can help she would be delighted to hear from you.

 

Most of them have a 'Benton' prefix, for example Iris 'Benton Nigel', which I already have, or Iris 'Benton Menace', one of many I would still like to find.  However there are a number without the Benton prefix, eg Iris 'Strathmore' and Iris 'Black Michael', which I would also very much like to find. 

The picture is of Iris 'Benton Nigel'

Plants for problem Areas

A talk given by Richard Hobbs to the Suffolk Group at Stowupland Village Hall.

 

Richard Hobbs a well respected plantsman in East Anglia gave an interesting and amusing talk to the Suffolk Group last week.

 

Richard began by encouraging us to keep our problems in perspective. A burning coal seam had been described by a member of Gardeners Question time some years earlier as being a problem.  No one present could run to such high levels of drama in their own back garden, so we continued with shade dry and damp and desert conditions.

 

A full write up of the talk with details of Richard's plant recommendations will appear in the Suffolk group's Spring newsletter due out in Feb 07.

 

Visit to Pentlow Mill

Saturday June 9th

 

Bright sunny and a perfect early autumn day for a garden visit. The Suffolk group had a vist to a splendid garden at Cavendish.

 

Pentlow Mill is a rare and beautiful gem, surrounded by interesting and varied planting, wonderful trees and as its name suggests water.

 

The owners Jenny and Andrew Clark are keen and experienced gardeners with special interests in hardy geraniums, hepaticas and a multitude of alpines, fruit, veg and shrubs.

 

Events held by the NCCPG are free to members.. You can find information about joining the group on this site and come along and join in the wide ramge of events we hold.

 

A full write up of this event with details of interesting plants and features of the garden will be printed in the groups spring newsletter out in February 07