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!
That's a Wrap for 2024....
Thanks to everyone who attended our events this year, we went out on a high in November with Barry Newman talking all things container gardening. A great evening and so many useful tips to take away!
We had some great speakers throughout the year including Pippa Greenwood, Geoff Stonebanks from Driftwood Garden, Ben Cross on growing Alstroemerias, and local historian Geoffrey Mead who returns by popular demand in 2025. Looking ahead we also have RHS Gold Medal winner Juliet Sargeant coming to speak in February.
Details of all our meetings can be found on our Events page.
Patcham Gardening Network Presents.....
Our next event is on Wednesday 29th January when we will be hosting a Gardeners' Question Time with Pete Woods from One Garden Brighton, Ruth Avanovich from the Brighton & Hove Organic Gardening Group, and professional gardener Kevin Johnson. Please join us at 7pm in the Community Centre.
PGN Open Gardens
Thanks so much to Sally and Sara who opened their gardens to PGN members this year. Sally chose the wildest weather day in June and still raised over £300 for Cancer Research.
Sara chose a balmy July afternoon and raised nearly £240 for the Downs View College Community Garden.
Thanks to everyone who came to support both open gardens. We'll have more next year!
Thanks to everyone who came to hear Pippa Greenwood My Life in Gardening in March. It was enthralling to hear her horticultural story and we will be inviting her back again for her wisdom on pests and diseases, watch this space!
Any Questions?
