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Plant growers have started pulling out of next year’s Chelsea Flower Show in an escalating row over a ban on peat compost. If rules aren’t eased, most of next year’s plants will have to be grown in sustainable compost that growers say is hard to come by The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has said the …

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Date Tuesday, 8 September 2026 . Self drive visit. The printable/editable booking form is in the Visits section under the Events heading

Date:  2nd  July 2026 visiting 2 gardens. The printable/editable booking form is in the Visits section under the Events heading

Please click on the link to view the Community and Outings accounts for 2025 https://fagusgardening.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Final-2025-Fagus-4Community.pdf

Please click on the link to read the minutes https://fagusgardening.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Minutes-of-33rd-AGM.pdf

Darren Lerigo gave us a Zoom lecture on Topiary in December 2020. He has contacted Wendy Musson who arranged the 2020 lecture and Darren has kindly given us access to his downloadable book on the subject titled “Modern Topiary” Please click on the link ‘Book’ to download and ‘Modern Mint’ to explore Darren’s work

The 33rd Annual General Meeting of Fagus will be held at 8pm on Monday 16th February 2026 at the Methodist Hall, Silver Street, Nailsea.

The last slide of Fiona Rose’s “In the Garden with William Morris” showed his philosophy about Gardens

Cleve mentioned several books and organisations during his lecture on 17th November and as many attendees asked for the list he has kindly sent it to us. (Click on the header to expand)