NATIONAL COLLECTIONS WEEKEND
Written by {Penny Ross} @ May 15, 2012 5:34 pm
May 12th and 13th saw the Devon Group at RHS Rosemoor for National Collections Weekend. Many Devon collection holders were represented.
Working around the centre of the marquee where the National ...
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Galanthophiles exceed their wildest expectations!
Written by {Penny Ross} @ February 16, 2012 2:50 pm
Members may wish to scour their clumps of Galanthus woronowii for a yellow form. One such plant has just sold on e-bay for a staggering sum - see the following link.
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BBC Gardens' Illustrated Arts & Crafts Garden Festival
Written by {Penny Ross} @ February 2, 2012 5:54 pm
Plans for the Plant Heritage marquee at this key West Country event are now well underway. The festival - which will take place on 1st and 2nd June at Coombe Trenchard - is now in its ...
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Don't miss this year's Plant Exchange!
Written by {Penny Ross} @ January 21, 2012 12:21 pm
Q. Where might you obtain such uncommon and rare plants as Filipendula vulgaris 'Devon Cream'; Potentilla fruticosa 'Dart's Golddigger' and Erythronium revolutum from God's Valley?
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Devon Group AGM 2011
Written by {Penny Ross} @ December 10, 2011 6:13 pm
The year in Plant Heritage Devon was brought to a close by a very successful Annual General Meeting held at Dart's Farm, near Exeter.
 After the formal business of the day, we were treated to wonderful ...
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Get your flypapers here!
Written by {Caroline Wood} @ October 1, 2011 9:02 pm
And finally... the autumn plant fair in the Tavistock Pannier Market brought to an end a successful year of plant fairs organised by Plant Heritage in Devon.
On the grounds that every picture tells a ...
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Summer Plant Fairs
Written by {Penny Ross} @ July 25, 2011 11:06 pm
 The summer season of plant fairs organised by Plant Heritage Devon Group is finally over and preparations are underway for the autumn events.
In spite of gloomy economic forecasts and even ...
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Devon Group President awarded Veitch Medal
Written by {Mike Squires} @ July 12, 2011 6:51 pm
 Hampton Court Flower Show 2011 was very successful for Plant Heritage. We not only signed up 54 new members and made £2000 profit with the seed shop but we were also presented with an engraved ...
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Coombe Trenchard Arts & Crafts Garden Festival
Written by {Caroline Wood} @ July 9, 2011 9:20 pm
 Only the spirit of dogged determination kept me going at times on set-up day. It was wet and windy, uphill to the loos, the food stand hadn't got supplies yet, and my legs hurt. One of those "why am ...
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Making light of it
Written by {Caroline Wood} @ July 9, 2011 12:01 pm
The stallholders came, the food was waiting, the weather was good.......all we needed were the customers. Whether it was because of clash with Men's Final at Wimbledon, or too soon after the ...
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Plant Fair at Rosemoor - rare, interesting and popular plants for sale
Written by {Penny Ross} @ May 27, 2011 5:35 pm
 The two day plant fair held at RHS Rosemoor in May was a huge success - thanks to the hard work of organisers Pauline and Derek Burdett and the efforts of many volunteers who supported Plant Heritage ...
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Didn't we do well!
Written by {Maggie Morton} @ May 11, 2011 7:46 pm
It was yet another glorious
morning in early April as Malcolm Pharoah - head gardener at Marwood Hill - and
I wandered around the gardens. We were assessing the potential blooms for the
annual ...
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April Plant Fairs boosted by fabulous weather!
Written by {Penny Ross} @ April 25, 2011 6:54 pm
Plant Heritage Devon's plant fairs have continued to run successfully during April.
 On April 17th we were in Civic Hall in Totnes - a venue much helped by the presence of a West Country food ...
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From the Tea bush to the Tea cup
Written by {Penny Ross} @ April 14, 2011 6:14 pm
 On the 31st March over 60 members met at Tregothnan near St Austell for a 'tea visit. Thirty three of us travelled by coach from Exeter. This in itself was an adventure. A loo stop became a little ...
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Caerhays Castle
Written by {David Cann} @ March 29, 2011 9:49 pm
 Looking good right now is the garden at Caerhays Castle. Judging from the plants still to flower it will be looking good for some time.
The first of the magnolias are out. Why did I leave it ...
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1000 attend Plant Heritage Plant Fair
Written by {Penny Ross} @ March 20, 2011 11:47 pm
Around 1000 people turned out for Plant Heritage's Plant Fair held in the Pannier Market - following the successful early spring fair held in Totnes in February.
A large number of specialist ...
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National Collection Holders' Day
Written by {Penny Ross} @ February 25, 2011 7:06 pm
Marwood Hill Gardens today hosted a meeting of Devon's National Collection Holders - an opportunity for us to get together and share the 'trials and tribulations' of our enterprise. The morning ...
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Snowdrop Walk - Valentine's Day
Written by {Penny Ross} @ February 14, 2011 7:07 pm
Our new year began today with a private visit to magnificent garden near Kingsbridge. 
Set in the grounds of a Grade 1 listed house, the garden features over 60 varieties of snowdrops beneath ...
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Merry Christmas from our Chairman
Written by {John Turner} @ December 24, 2010 9:24 am
 From the snowy reaches of North Devon, I send my best wishes to all our members for a very Happy Christmas. I am sure that despite these adverse weather conditions we will enjoy another ...
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South African Plants endure Devon winter (again!)
Written by {Penny Ross} @ December 18, 2010 11:45 am
Six inches of level snow in the Devonshire heartlands and work in our small specialist nursery has been suspended for the day.
The container grown plants are deciduous Agapanthus (they have survived ...
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New National Plant Collections for Devon
Written by {Malcolm Pharaoh} @ December 2, 2010 3:32 pm
On 11th November, the Plant Conservation Committee approved two new collections for Devon.
Alan and Katie Bunn in Bovey Tracey were awarded provisional status with
a review in two years for their ...
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Have you bought a new bed lately.....
Written by {Malcolm Pharaoh} @ December 2, 2010 3:21 pm
Last winter I attended a Plant Health workshop run by the headquarters staff of Plant Heritage held at R.H.S. garden Wisley.
The chief speaker was Andrew Gaunt who works for the Food and Environment ...
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Threatened Plants Project at Paignton Zoo
Written by {Felicity Dudbridge} @ November 24, 2010 6:50 pm
Nine volunteers (including two from Somerset) met on Monday, 22nd November at Paignton Zoo to learn about the Threatened Plants Project initiated by Plant Heritage Headquarters and presented by Sarah ...
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Plant Heritage AGM at Rosemoor on the 30th October
Written by {Felicity Dudbridge} @ November 9, 2010 10:41 am
When you look at the weather this week, you realise how lucky we were on Saturday the 30th. Apart from a glitch with the coffee, the day at RHS Rosemoor went very smoothly. After the ...
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Autumn Plant Fair at Rosemoor.
Written by {Penny Ross} @ September 6, 2010 6:38 pm
Yesterday's autumn plant fair at RHS Rosemoor was a great success in spite of (or perhaps because of) the dismal weather - indeed at 10am the rain was coming down in bucketloads and it continued on ...
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Devon Group is online - from the Chairman
Written by {John Turner} @ August 23, 2010 7:01 pm
Welcome!
Thanks to the very hard work from our secretary Penny Ross, other group members and the ingenuity of Penny's son Toby, we are online. Despite my own previous reticence and ...
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National Collections Weekend - RHS Rosemoor
Written by {Penny Ross} @ June 7, 2010 4:54 pm
After a week of May frosts and generally inclement weather, Devon's national collections weekend dawned bright and clear . Visitors were treated to a spectacular display of 27 National ...
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How to write a blog!
Written by {Penny Ross} @ April 21, 2010 6:30 pm
(it's easy to do)
 A blog can consist of text and pictures, or just text. It can be really short - a photograph plus a few words of description, or a full sized article. The style is ...
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