Hodnet and District Garden Club – Feb. 2014

EVERYONE WELCOME: we meet every month on the third Tuesday at the Lyon Hall, 7:30pm
Visitors are most welcome to come along to our talks and partake in a cup of tea and biscuit. Entry fee for guests is £2.00 per person, or why not join our club? It’s only £12 for a whole year.
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 18th February, when we welcome Chris Neil from NGS who will tell us all about the National Garden Scheme.
The National Gardens Scheme was founded in 1927 to raise money for the nurses of the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) by opening gardens of quality and interest to the public.
In the first year 609 gardens raised over £8,000. A network of volunteer County Organisers was set up and by 1931 over 1,000 private gardens were open and Country Life magazine produced a handbook, known as “The Yellow Book” because of its bright cover.