Useful info

As keen gardeners we enjoy outings to a wide range of gardens – large and small, private and commercial. What better way to spend time than strolling round and admiring someone else’s hard work and creativity – what a treat! We love plant sales and talking to specialist growers about the amazing plants they develop and sell. We are  also interested to hear from experts about all aspects of the natural world – flora and fauna and broader environmental issues and concerns.

Here you will find links to some of the above and some general bits and pieces of  information that may be of interest.

Do contact us if you have any information to share and we will add it to this section. Do get in touch if you have any questions/suggestions about what we provide here.

Happy gardening – what a great hobby we share!

Allotments in Buxton

Following the very successful visit to Cunningdale Allotments and the follow-up Question Time held later last year we thought the following information about allotments in Buxton may be of help to those of you who may be interested in allotment gardening.

High Peak Borough Council have 87 plots at Cunningdale on Dew Pond Lane, Fairfield, Buxton. SK17 7LF Applications can be made through HPBC’s website, and applicants will be notified when a plot becomes available.

The other allotments in Buxton are run by Allotment Associations and are located as follows.

  • Nunsfield Road Allotments, (20 plots) off Nunsfield Road Buxton, SK17 7BW(20 plots)
  • Silverlands Allotments, (10 plots) off Silverlands, Buxton SK176QU
  • Cote Heath Allotments, (125 plots) off Byron Street, Buxton SK17 9HW

We understand that these allotment associations have their own rules and regulations, and recent information online indicates that these have waiting lists.

The Serpentine Community Garden

www.serpentinecommunitygarden.org

Plants Hunters Fair

The National Garden Scheme

https://ngs.org.uk/

The National Garden Scheme gives visitors unique access to over 3,500 exceptional private gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and raises impressive amounts of money for nursing and health charities through admissions, teas and cake.

Spring is coming

Sheffield orchid society

The Sheffield Orchid Society is hosting Phil Seaton on Sunday 5 May, at 10 am in St John’s Church Hall, Abbeydale Road South, S17 3LE. The topic of Phil’s talk is an account of various, often very different, orchid conservation projects in the Americas, beginning in the Florida Everglades and ending in Chile, taking in…