In January 2009 the Aberdeen Garden and Home Club’s committee, elected in December 2008, had its first meeting at Mrs Annie Featherstone’s home. The monthly venues for the next ten months were decided upon. The last meeting of 2009 would be held in November when a new committee would be elected. It was also agreed that plant sales would be held in March and September of this year, and meetings would be held on the first Thursday of every month. An article published in April 1972 (?) in a local newspaper, suggested that a Garden Club was started in Aberdeen in that year by a Mr Stewart Melville at the home of Mrs Lynn Olivier with eleven members. There will probably have been earlier clubs formed in Aberdeen, and it would be interesting to the present club to have those details.
On Thursday 5th of February 2009, Mr David Miller gave an interesting and informative talk on a different way to landscaping the garden. This event was held at the Karoosmiles in Aberdeen and was very well attended. One of David’s many interesting concepts was to involve all the family in planning a garden and planting those flowers or shrubs which the individual family members knew or liked best, so that it became a shared garden. He said that a garden should be planned with a budget in mind, and that good gardeners were usually people who shared plant cuttings, and who were never shy in asking for them. David spoke of essential good ground cover, drip soaking instead of watering with a hose, and the necessity of bringing birds into the -garden and methods of achieving this.
It was a successful morning, with the Club gaining new interested gardeners to the Club.
Article By: Joan Tinker On Thursday 5th of February 2009, Mr David Miller gave an interesting and informative talk on a different way to landscaping the garden. This event was held at the Karoosmiles in Aberdeen and was very well attended. One of David’s many interesting concepts was to involve all the family in planning a garden and planting those flowers or shrubs which the individual family members knew or liked best, so that it became a shared garden. He said that a garden should be planned with a budget in mind, and that good gardeners were usually people who shared plant cuttings, and who were never shy in asking for them. David spoke of essential good ground cover, drip soaking instead of watering with a hose, and the necessity of bringing birds into the -garden and methods of achieving this.
It was a successful morning, with the Club gaining new interested gardeners to the Club.
Anna Featherstone, David Miller & Padgie Pienaar