Welcome to The Patcham Gardening Network!
Do you enjoy gardening?
Would you like to join a group to share knowledge, skills, plants and much more?
The Patcham Gardening Network is a group of local gardening enthusiasts who meet once a month to share and enhance our gardening knowledge. We invite experts to give talks and workshops, organise trips to gardens, and open up our own gardens for members to visit. We are building a community for local gardeners of all abilities to indulge their passion further.
Membership is open to all at £24 per year. Please Join Us!
Details of all our meetings can be found on our Events page.
October 2025 Patcham Gardening Network Presents.....
Our next meeting
Steve Bustin makes a return visit on Wednesday 29th October with Guns, Ghosts and Guerrilla Gardening, the life and times of Ellen Willmott. With substantial family income at her disposal, Ellen Willmott (1858-1934) dedicated her life to the pursuit of horticultural perfection. She transformed her family home, Warley Place, into one of the most celebrated gardens in the country, visited by royalty and at one point employing over 100 staff. Come and hear how she spent her entire fortune on her gardening obsession and ended up living penniless among her roses. A cautionary tale with some excellent anecdotes about booby-trapping daffodil bulbs and the myth that Willmott carried seeds of the Sea Holly Eryngium giganteum in her pockets, to surreptitiously scatter wherever she pleased.
Join us in the Community Centre from 7pm, members free, visitors £5.
Open Garden
Thanks to everyone who weather whispered and came along to Nicola's open garden in August. The sun shone and there was endless cake and garden chats. The event raised £400 for the Forget Me Not specialist dementia intensive care residential facility in Worthing.
That's all for our open gardens this year, there will be more in 2026. Let us know if you would like to open yours....
PGN Goes to Wisley
Thanks to everyone who came on our annual visit to RHS Wisley. The sun shone and the peonies and wisteria were in magnificent bloom. This was our second garden visit of the year - have a look at our Garden Visits page to see further pictures, and details of this year's PGN Open Gardens
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