Romsey Garden Club is the local garden club for Romsey residents, in the city of Cambridge, but you do not have to live in Romsey to become a member. We are open to everyone. We meet at 7.30pm on the second Tuesday in the month, every month from September to May, at the Community Centre in Ross Street, Cambridge CB1 3UZ.
At the meetings we have a speaker on a gardening related topic, and exchange information, seeds and plants. We involve ourselves in events and plant sales around the Romsey area, and visit gardens both in Cambridge and further afield. Some of our members work on the community gardens at the junction of Mill Road and Coleridge Road, and further down Mill Road in front of the old warehouse site, where the Mosque will be built. We want to expand this activity, and are always looking for other members who are willing to take part.
Every year we hold a garden show at Ross Street Community Centre. We do not limit entries to members of the club, and invite everyone in the community to take part. We are especially pleased to have a children's section, as we want to encourage young gardeners. We are not fiercely competitive people, and we always stress that our shows are intended to be enjoyed, so don't expect perfection and malice.
Our members own gardens and allotments are varied in type and style, some concentrate on vegetables, others on formal flower beds, and many have an area of managed wildness for birds, insects, frogs and small mammals. We want to include pictures and a description of members' gardens, so please get in touch if you want to take part.
All the evening meetings are held on the second Tuesday in the month from October through to May at the Ross Street Community Centre. The doors are open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Admission fees are £2 for members and £4 for guests. Annual membership of the club costs £5, and you can pay at the meeting or in advance at Cutlacks. The club invites members of other garden clubs and allotment societies to attend our meetings and join our trips out, and the charge for them will be the same as for our own members.
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Gardeners in Romsey will also be interested in Cambridge Carbon Footprint's Grow Your Own website, and in attending their training sessions: http://cambridgegrowyourown.wordpress.com/ http://cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/ Ad-Lib, who are working on a Community Garden in Marmora Road
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