Monthly Programme 2016

5^th January 2016
Annual Christmas Party
Starts at 7:30. Please bring a dish to share. Wine will be provided.  Please bring your Subs.

2^nd February 2016
The Blackstock Triangle Gardeners – How to Build a Community
 Naomi Schillinger and Nicolette Jones

1^st March 2016
AGM with election of new committee and Show and Tell
Learn about the Club and have your say about topics for meetings! Join the Committee! Tell us about your gardening triumphs or tragedies!

5^th April 2016
Urban Orchards and Caring for your own garden fruit trees
Lewis McNeill  from the Urban Orchard Project  and Russell Miller of Tree Musketeers will speak on their planting of orchards on estates in London with some very useful tips for your own garden fruit trees.

3^rd May 2016
Greening your own garden
John Little will speak on how to make your own garden more eco-friendly through small green roofs, insect friendly planting and improving drainage to avoid flooding.   He will also tell us about his project on a Hackney Estate.  Watch his inspirational video here. https://youtu.be/hUe6uYZi49E.

15th May 2016
Plant Sale
Across from St Peter’s Church from 11:00.  Bring donations earlier.

5th June 2016
Coach Trip
Destination to be announced.

7^th June 2016

Ask me about your garden & improving Hackney soil with Mike Jackson
Mike will give speak about Hackney soil and then do a question and answer from the audience on any gardening subject.  Please send in questions in advance to dbgardeners@gmail.com   Questions from the floor will be taken if there is time.

5^th July 2016
De Beauvoir Garden Walkabout
Visiting gardens in the de Beauvoir area – details to be announced. Please contact DBG if you would like to show your garden.

 WEDNESDAY 3rd August 2016
Annual Picnic at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden
Bring a dish to share.

11^th September 2016
Flower and Produce Show
This annual fundraiser includes a dog show as well as a prizes for adults and children in a variety of categories including baking, flower arranging, fruit, vegetables and photography.

4^th October 2016

Italian Gardens of the Renaissance – Deborah Trentham of the Garden Historians

1^st November 2016
Kew Trip to the island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands – Miranda Janatka

Miranda will be speaking about her trip.  As part of her diploma course Miranda is going to the BVI for two weeks in May 2016. She is taking part in a project which will enable the the J R O’Neal Botanic Garden to convert from selling non-native plants to selling endangered endemic plants collected nearby and kept there as part of an ex-situ collection. Threatened native species have already been established in cultivation at the J R O’Neal Botanic Garden such as Leptocereus quadricostatus and Malpighia woodburyana. She will be supporting and training the two members of staff who work in thenursery, neither of whom have formal horticultural training.  She is also visiting Sage Mountain National Park and Shark Bay national park to observe and document native plants.

6^th December 2016
Christmas Party Please bring a dish