This year, instead of holding a monthly meeting in August, you have the option to have tea in one of two special gardens. This will not only be a chance to see and learn about the gardens, but it will also be a social occasion so do come along, even if gardens don’t particularly float your boat!
The gardens are:
1. Cheryl Cummings’s Rewilding Garden, located at 11 The Gardens, Monmouth NP25 3HF. Learn more about Cheryl’s garden here: https://cherylcummingswildgardenwriting.co.uk/
2. Cherry Taylor’s No Dig Garden, located just outside Monmouth at Old Llangattock Farm, Llangattock Vibon Avel NP25 5NG. Learn more about Cherry’s garden here: https://www.cherrysnodiggarden.co.uk
Tours of both gardens will be given, along with tea, coffee, biscuits and cake (for Cheryl’s Rewilding Garden, please bring your own mug!)
The fee for each garden visit is £3.50
An email has been sent with confirmation and further details to all those who have booked and paid for places
FURTHER DETAILS OF BOTH GARDENS BELOW
- Cheryl’s Rewilding Garden – 11 The Gardens, Monmouth NP25 3HF
Grow wilder. Reconnect, regenerate and restore your garden for nature.
“Our gardens are not isolated, man-made spaces; they are parts of the natural landscape in which they are situated. We need to learn to recognise the different parts of our gardens as habitats and ecosystems which wildlife live in. Cheryl Cummings will take us on a guided tour of her garden and explain the benefits of restoring your garden for nature”.
Numbers will be limited due to the size of Cheryl’s garden.
An email will be sent when we are ready to put together the list of attendees. A payment of £3.50 will be required to secure your place.
Accessibility for the Rewilding Garden
Pathways in the garden are a mixture of grass and paving and some sections have steps.
There is no parking available at the venue and the lane leading to it, “The Gardens” is narrow with little opportunity to leave your vehicle there.
Please note if approaching from the Hereford Road end, you will see property no. 11b on your left. This is not the venue: continue to follow the lane as it curves to the left and no. 11 will be the next entrance.
2. Cherry’s No Dig Garden – Old Llangattock Farm, Llangattock Vibon Avel NP25 5NG Discover the basics of the no dig garden.
“Protect and nurture the soil life – it is the biology that interacts with plant roots and makes plants thrive. The creation of a no dig garden can be extremely rapid if all the resources you need are to hand and plant growth will improve as time goes by and the soil biology improves”.
Accessibility for the No Dig Garden:
The garden is 1.5 acres with a lot of uneven ground, some sloping, woodchip paths and steep steps.
It is recommended that people park at the Montessori school, which is a 5-10 minute walk from the garden (mostly on tarmac road, a little bit on a dirt track). If you are obliged to park on the side of the road, please don’t pull onto the grass verges. See photo (school circled at top, garden circled at bottom).
To reserve your place, email Alison Lewis via the Contact the Organiser:
- put Garden Visits on the subject line,
- give your full name and
- say which garden you prefer.
An email will be sent when we are ready to put together a list of attendees. A payment of £3.50 will be required to secure your place.
