Programme 2024 – Ampleforth & District Gardening Club

	Speaker/visit	Subject
January 21st	Festive lunch at the White Swan, Ampleforth
February 7th	Nick Fraser, Head Gardener, National Trust North Yorkshire & Tees Valley covering Nunnington Hall, Ormesby Hall & Rievaulx Terrace	‘Gardening with the National Trust at Nunnington Hall, Ormesby Hall & Rievaulx Terrace’.
March 6th	John Cossham, York	‘Composting’.
April 3rd	Clive Dawson, York	‘An oasis in a city – York Cemetery Gardens’.
April 26^th	Trip to Harrogate flower show
May 1^st	Helen Neave, Founding Director of makeitwild.co.uk	‘How we ‘’Make it Wild’’ – a personal story of re-wilding the land.
May 18^th	Plant sale in village hall
June	Outing	Scampston Hall gardens provisional date 8^th June.
June 23rd	Open Gardens around Ampleforth in conjunction with the Village Hall
Summer date TBC	Garden party in the garden of the vicarage	Celebration of Ampleforth & District gardening club’s 40^th anniversary.
August	Outing	Possible Yorkshire Arboretum visit.
September 4th	Sarah Hopps, Thirsk	‘A garden for all seasons’.
October 2nd	Sarah Owen-Hughes, Head Gardener, Rudding Park Hotel, Harrogate	`Science and the Garden’ – looking at the little things that make you a better gardener.
November 6th	Dr John Grimshaw, Director, Yorkshire Arboretum	Trees for the Future.
December 4th	AGM & social, wreath making