Wednesday, 18th January, 2012 at 7.30pm 'So Many Plants, So Little Space' by Bob Brown of Cotswold Garden Flowers at Haskayne Village Hall, 109 School Lane, Haskayne, L39 7JE Members £1.50, non-members £2.00 Refreshments & Raffle. Plant Sales Table.

Bob was the very entertaining speaker at the CGS AGM held at Ness Gardens in 2010. He will give us a talk and slide show on how we can make the best use of space in the garden, fitting as many plants as pos¬sible. Bob has an encyclopaedia of over 10,000 plants on the internet which gives a full description of all the planted listed and some he has for sale by mail order.

Wednesday, 22nd February, 2012 at 7.30pm `Gardening for Wildlife' by Ken Green at Haskayne Village Hall, 109 School Lane, Haskayne, L39 7JE Members -f 1.50, non-members £2.00 Refreshments & Raffle. Plant Sales Table.

All those who are regular show visitors will know Ken and Mary Green of The Walled Garden, Hornby and Ken's distinctive lucky bow tie. He reckons he always wins a gold medal when he wears it. He will give a talk and slide show on how we can best attract wildlife into our gardens with the plants we grow. Hopefully he will also have plants to sell.

Wednesday, 21st March, 2012 at 7.30pm 'Barnsdale after Goeff' by Nick Hamilton at Haskayne Village Hall, 109 School Lane, Haskayne, L39 7JE Members £1.50, non-members £2.00 Refreshments & Raffle. Plant Sales Table.

Nick, who is President of the Cottage Garden Society, is returning to complete the talk and slide show he started in February 2010. Then he told us how his father Geoff Hamilton got into TV work and started Barnsdale and now he will continue the story of how he kept Barnsdale going following the sad untimely death of Geoff. Bring along all the friends who came to the last meeting to make it a night to remember. To make this even more attractive the committee have decided to maintain our normal admission fees by subsidising this event from our general funds. Nick will bring plants for sale.

Wednesday, 18th April, 2012 at 7.15 *NOTE EARLY START* Annual General Meeting & talk 'Plants for the Smaller Garden' by Peter Foley at Haskayne Village Hall, 109 School Lane, Haskayne, L39 7JE Members FREE, non-members £2.00 Refreshments & Raffle. Plant Sales Table.

We will start with our AGM which will be followed by refreshments before our talk. Peter has now passed Holden Clough Nursery on to his son John and has moved to Waddow Lodge in Waddington which he now opens for the National Gardens Scheme. He still broadcasts on Radio Lancashire on the gardening programme on Sunday lunchtime. He will give us a talk and slide show on which plants fit well into the smaller garden and also bring plants for sale.

PLANT SALE 12th May, 2012

Don't forget when splitting your plants this Autumn to pot some up for the Plant Sale in 2012.