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 Advisors

 Advisors

Ballymena Garden Club - apparently defunct.

Carndonagh Gardening Club - contact Grainne  ...   RoI 0749 374 207

Coleraine Gardening Club - contact Derrick Turbitt, NI 7083 3963

Limavady Gardening Club - contact Robert Hedley, NI 7776 3920

Maghera Gardening Club - contact Fiona O’Kane, NI 7964 5149

Omagh Gardening Club - contact Georgina Colhoun, NI 8224 2611 or Elaine Turner,   NI 8289 8380

At present this page is being used as a directory to other organisations our members might wish to visit or consult.  If you have suggestions to be added, or any more up-to-date details to replace those given below, please don’t hesitate to email them to the webmaster at mailbox@derryhortsoc.org

Royal Horticultural Society: Our Society is affiliated to the RHS and some of our members belong to the RHS.  It provides a members’ advisory service and a monthly magazine called The Garden.  

Visit https://www.rhs.org.uk

Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland: A smaller body with about eighty affiliates (some give admission discounts) but eager to promote co-operation for lectures and flower shows, it produces a Journal and has a lending library with a book-list on the web-site.  Membership costs match the RHS but of course travel to Irish events and affiliated gardens (two in N I)  is far cheaper. Visit https://rhsi.ie

Belfast City Council provides Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park which includes an international rose trial ground, and the Belfast Botanic Garden which has a famous curvilinear glasshouse and a tropical ravine. Dates of Rose Week and the big Botanic Flower Show are published at http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/leisure/parks-openspaces/parks-open-spaces.aspx

The Alpine Garden Society can be contacted via its web-site, http://alpinegarden-ulster.org.uk

The Hardy Plant Society caters for gardening with herbaceous perennials, but has no group established in Ireland.  Contact http://www.hardy-plant.org.uk

The Irish Garden magazine is a 10-monthly-issues periodical publication, well illustrated and with topical reminders and a wide range of easy-to-read articles. Its staff are responsible for an online magazine, garden.ie, that is updated weekly and offers a less technical advisory service than the RHS.  Garden.ie has an easy-to-use plant selector unit and it runs a members club section where you can describe your garden and be as sociable as ever you like. https://www.garden.ie/

Conservation Volunteers NI   www.tcv.org.uk/northernireland  or try  7035 5352 (Coleraine)

February 2020

Ballymoney-District-Gardening-Club

A facebook site that does carry news of coming events over a fair spread.

https://en-gb.facebook.com/Ballymoney-District-Gardening-Club-856157127743786/

 Looked good at https://ballymoneygardening.wordpress.com/

 [secretary Kenneth Bacon, 028 2766 6925 or 07753289528 ] but seems to prefer facebook now.

North Antrim Horticultural Association - contact ?Kenneth Bacon, NI 2766 6924  - or 6925?

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