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Hi Everyone

Please find the Poster below re events being held in Church in the Woods and Marline Woods Valley Nature Reserve, Hastings next weekend

It looks very interesting and informative and I thought some of you may like to attend ?

Sonia has passed this onto me and I am sharing it with you all

Alan and I will try to attend some of the events ourselves.

Looks great

Kind Regards

Mary B x

Hello all

Please note that the theme/title of one of the Photos for the flower show in September should have said :-

An Historic Building NOT an Architectural as I typed !!!

So sorry

Happy snapping !!!

Cooler today

Mary B x

Hello to you all

Hoping all is good with you all and you are coping well after the heatwave!!!

Just a very brief e-mail to ask if anyone else would like to come to the private garden visit on July 29th. to Broad Street House, Broad Street Icklesham at 11 am. Light refreshments will be included in our tickets.??? We have spare spaces and would very much like to make this trip viable.

( I have sent details also into the Crowhurst News but it will be getting near to this actual date when that gets printed so would be grateful if you could let me know without delay). As always FREE to members and just £5 for visitors Thank you to those of you who have already booked. Should be a nice visit and lets hope the sun shines on us but not too hot!

Whilst I am on here we have another really amazing visit planned :- August the 19th at 1.30pm - A Native Butterfly talk/presentation and short field trip in a local meadow in Battle. It should be great. I have seen this naturalist speak before He is very good.

Bookings being taken also for this trip with the same conditions - FREE to members and just £5 for visitors as before. Light Refreshments will be offered there also included in the prices. Please confirm if you wish to attend.

So much to look forward to now (and later the Autumn Flower Show to be held September 20th at the village hall. Schedules will shortly be online for you to all peruse.) Please take a look to see what you may like to enter

The themes for the photos this show will be "Our Summer Holiday" "An Architectural building" and "Colours of Autumn "Please get snapping !

Hope your gardens are growing well; despite the almost constant watering ! See you soon we hope, out and about, and please keep in touch and enjoy the rest of summer!

All Best Wishes

Mary B x

Hello to you all.

Hoping you are all well and happy and able to be out in your gardens; even though the weather has so far this month been very unsettled for summer!

For our gardens and farmer's fields of crops the rain was welcome, but the horrid winds that also came along were in my opinion not at all welcome! Many shrubs, trees and even smaller plants, including annuals took quite a bashing in our gardens and about the area, meaning leaves and sticks from tree branches and blooms were thrown about leaving many bruised and damaged.

Many gardens, including our own looked like it was snowing on lawns etc with all the rose blossom streaming down at times from our lovely white rose "Rambling Rector" Luckily there still seems to be enough blossoms to make a good display so we hope the wind does not return.

The forecast looks a little better for this coming week and when the sun has shone it is quite strong so we hopefully with have more of a chance to enjoy our gardens and the sunshine. Fingers crossed!

We have got several vegetables finally growing quite strongly in our raised beds and flowers at home; including sweet peas and sunflowers but we had problems getting some seeds to even germinate. I hope you have managed to grow whatever you wanted and they are flourishing now.

After the very successful visit to Ashburnham Place back in May I am very pleased to invite you all to our next garden visit event ,as planned in July. This visit will be to a private, lovely garden in Icklesham, owned by Sally and Tony Thorne. The address is Broad Street House, Broad Street in Icklesham PC TN36 4AS The date is 29th July @ 11 am Light Refreshments will be available during this visit.

Please make your own way there and car share would be great please where possible, but there is plenty of parking on site, I do not want to give much away but only to say that I have been informed that there are many interesting features at this garden, including many tree varieties ,a lovely pond full of wildlife and even waterfalls!!! Added to this there are super views across the Brede valley which you can also savour.

This visit is FREE to paid up members and £5 for visitors. I need numbers asap please as I require to offer numbers for the visit so the family can prepare the refreshments Thanks

Looking forward to hearing from those of you who desire to attend with us. We so hope you will be able to come along .First refusal will be offered as always direct to our members but I will also make a list of visitors who may wish to attend with us on whom we will welcome also if space permits.

Keep in touch and come and enjoy !

Many Thanks

Mary B Chair x

Look at these sweeties in Alexandra Park Hastings She had 8!!! xxx

Hi all

We had a very happy and enjoyable afternoon at Ashburnham Place today.

The sun shone and twelve of us had a very interesting talk and tour from Jay around the gardens, and heard about the history of this lovely place; once privately owned but now owned and run by the Christian Trust.

Afterwards we enjoyed tasty refreshments in the beautiful Orangery.

Thank you all for coming along and we are so pleased you enjoyed the trip.

Oliver will be shortly adding some photos that Alan took onto the website.

Thank you for your ongoing support and we look forward to our next beautiful garden visit to Icklesham in July and hope most of you will come along with us once more.

More details to follow. Diary the date as 29th July from 10am onwards. Will confirm more shortly.

Thank you all

Mary B x

I can only put a few of photos on this Newsletter tonight so in a couple of days please look onto the website.