Diary of Events

The 84th Annual General Meeting of the East Reading Horticultural Society

A talk by Mark Lyman for Caversham Horticultural Society members.

After seeing delphiniums at the Chelsea Flower Show over 30 years ago, Mark developed a passion for growing them. In this talk he will tell us about developing the delphinium stand at Chelsea and how he creates a small garden there each year.

This will be an online talk (using Zoom), ticket only via Eventbrite. Access granted from 7:30pm and the talk will start shortly afterwards.

The meeting starts at 4:40pm with refreshments and a seed swap. Please bring seeds to swap or cash donations for seeds.

There will be a short AGM starting at 5pm, followed by talk on Healthy Soils by Daniel Tyrkiel and Frida Mariana from Soil Ecology Laboratory.

They will bring a microscope to look at soil samples that member bring to the meeting.

The Annual General Meeting of the Tilehurst Horticultural Association.

A talk by Claire Mitchell for California Gardeners' Club.

A talk by Carol Gubler for California Gardeners' Club.

A talk by Anna Steven for Chiltern Edge Horticultural Society.

Lawrence Johnston is famed for creating his great and influential garden at Hidcote. Serre de la Madone is Lawrence Johnston’s Other Garden.

A talk by Dr Tijama Blanusa for East Reading Horticultural Society

The Spring Show of the California Gardeners' Club 

The Annual General Meeting of Caversham Horticultural Society.

Meet our dedicated team of volunteers and find out how the society has performed over the last year and see how you could help the committee in the future.

The AGM will be followed by a talk on the history of horticultural societies in Caversham by our very own Ian Noble.

This is the first in person talk for 2026, at Caversham Baptish church hall (opposite Waitrose). Free for members £3 for visitors. The doors open at 7:25pm and the AGM starts shortly afterwards.

Refreshments will be served at the end of the talk. There is some limited disabled parking (in the church car park) otherwise free parking is available over the road behind Waitrose.