November Meeting

The Society's Annual General Meeting was held on November 13th. New Members elected to the managing Committee were Tess Burt , Jenny Mitchell and Pauline Hill. Shirley Jones retired from the Committee and was thanked by the Chairman, Mrs Keogh, for her excellent work in putting together in recent years very good programmes of speakers, including the new programme for 2014. The Treasurer reported on a good financial outturn following a very good Summer Show organised by Tess Burt, which was sponsored for the first time by local businesses.

 

Following the AGM the Chairman introduced the speaker for the evening, Mr Ian Willis, whose talk was entitled "The Secret at Series House", which is were the speaker has lived for at least 30years. He has for the past 11 years opened his garden under the National Garden Scheme. The National Garden Scheme started 80 years ago to provide monetary help for retired Nurses. Nowadays the McMillan Nurses Association receive the largest Donation.

 

Mr Willis originally opened his garden to support the "Wimborne Gardens in Bloom" activity, after articles in the local press and TV he was asked to open the garden under the National Gardens Scheme. It looks a really quirky garden full of objects he has collected over the years from House Sales, Auctions and rescued from demolition sites. These objects either stand alone or in many cases are sculptured by Mr Willis to make interesting garden objects some planted and some stand alone. The garden is in Wimborne and opens at the end of July and closes around the first/second week of September.
We all enjoyed his slides of the garden and his dry sense of humour - an entertaining talk which included an interesting history of some of the buildings in Wimborne .

 

Flower of the Month was jointly won by Jan Ravensdale and Kath Burt.

 

 

Date of next meeting - Wednesday 11th December @ 7.30pm - Christmas Party at Finleys. Tickets - £13 for members £15 for non members contact John Watts 01929 400749.

 

Future Dates - January meeting will be on Wednesday 8th January - 7.30pm - Mike Halsall on British Wild Orchids. All Welcome.