Mediaeval Gardens Talk

Apologies for the gap in listings, here is the next event ...

Wed 23rd May 11.30-12.15 

11.30 – 12.15 in the Great Glasshouse. Talk on “Medieval Gardens” by Heather Henderson of the West Wales Herb Group. Part of Medicines in May at the National Botanic Garden of Wales

Herb Bling

Nadolig Llawen - Happy Christmas. 

from WWHG

Remarkable silver casts of real plants by a 16th century Nuremberg silversmith. From the left: dyer's chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria), heather, marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) and yarrow (Achillea millefolium).

EVENTS; Summer/Autumn 2011

Saturday 17th September
Annual General Meeting 11.00am
Mount Voluntary Action Centre - Carmarthen
followed by lunch in a local pub.

Saturday/Sunday 15/16th October
West Wales Health Show 10.00-5.00
Withybush - Haverfordwest.

Tuesday 15th November
Talks from:
Dr. Ieuan Nicholas Wellbeing Skincare (as seen on tv, and YouTube)
and
Christine Stevenson, MNIMH, local Medical Herbalist
Holy Trinty, Church Hall, Newcastle Emlyn 11.00-3.00

EVENTS; Summary of 2011

Snowdrops in Oxwich Village

Tuesday. 22nd March at 11.00.

A garden visit to Robert Wallis and also to his Alpine Plant Nursery where early bulbs will be in flower. The plants are grown in excellent conditions and are varied, really interesting and not to be missed.

Llwyn Ifan, Porthyrhyd, Carmarthen. SA1 7DU. Telephone:  01267-275205 To be followed by lunch at Cwmcerrig farm shop.

Directions: From A48, exit at National Botanic Garden.  In Porthyrhyd, turn left at the T Junction by the Abadam Arms, on to B 4310.  Leave 30 mph zone, go over little hill with lay by on right and farm on left.  Proceed 50 yds; take sharp left into drive, between low, cream coloured walls.

Saturday & Sunday, April 16th & 17th, West Wales Health Show

Withybush Airfield, Haverfordwest 10am to 5pm We will have a stall there. All help welcome

Thursday 19th May

The Bishop's Palace, St. David's Learning Festival organised by CADW.

We will have a stall there with a theme of medieval herbs.

Monday 23rd May

Gwynfor Herbs, Pontgarreg, near Llangranog. SA44 6AU

Meet 11.00 at the nursery. Includes a talk and demonstration on propagation.

Cost £2.50.

Lunch after in Llangrannog

Saturday 18th June 11.00-5.00 Open garden under the NGS scheme Gerallt, Aberaeron.

For details contact Dilys Lewis Tel 01554 834107

Saturday 25th June

Midsummer Herb Fair, Llanerchaeron (National Trust)

We will have a stall there. Please come and see us. All extra help is most gratefully received.

Monday 4th July

Visit to the gardens at Cilgwyn Lodge, Myddfai.

Cost £6.00. inc. admission, cakes and coffee. Bring your own sandwiches. Plenty of shelters for a picnic.

Afterwards a visit to Myddfai, details in next Newsletter

Further details from our secretary, Keith Bartlett  Tel: 01348 873058 

Thurs 18th November. Tour of St David's Cathedral Library and Annual General Meeting

The West Wales Health Show.

We will have a stand at the West Wales Health Show on this coming weekend 16 &17 Oct at the Withybush Showground, Haverfordwest.

See: http://www.thewestwaleshealthshow.co.uk/index.html

A humorous piece from the Wellcome Library.

"The early nineteenth-century humorous broadside The Physician’s Receipt describes a how a patient with fever may be treated with soup made from leeks and toasted cheese. If the patient is Welsh, this will cure him – Welshmen, in jokes from at least the sixteenth century onwards, being depicted as loving cheese almost as much as they do leeks. If he is English, it will kill him. Well, de gustibus non est disputandem [there’s no accounting for tastes]: you don’t have to be Welsh to love cheese (although British Cheese Week does include quite a few events in Wales) and you don’t have to come from east of Offa’s Dyke to dislike it." quoted from http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/

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