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Community Orchard Awareness Day
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Come and find out about the proposal for a Community Orchard for Chalfont St Giles
We are holding a Community Orchard Awareness Day
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Milton’s Cottage 11.00 – 13.00.
Fun activities for all ages
Orchard Café 14.00 – 16.30
Reading Room Garden, High St, Chalfont Saint Giles HP8 4QH .
ALL WELCOME!
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Children’s Competition to Make Bunting for the Queen’s Jubilee
Bunting Template
Chalfont St Giles Gardens Association is sponsoring a competition for children and young people to design and create (sew, applique, draw or print) jubilee themed bunting flags using recycled fabric.
We are inviting the children and young people of Chalfont St Giles to design and make some bunting to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. There will be a prize for the best entry. The bunting entries will be sewn together and displayed around the Church over the Jubilee weekend. Adults can also join in and enter, but prizes will only be awarded to those under 18!
How to Enter
Using a template for the bunting which can be found here, you can decorate the front as you wish. You could:
See below or click here for ideas or go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOVxBfHUAJY
Have fun!
We would like you to use recycled fabric. While the official colours of the Jubilee is purple and platinum, we would prefer you to use red, white or blue fabric as the bunting will be used to decorate the Competitions Marquee of the Village Show in future years. If you don’t have any suitable scraps of fabric or have any other questions, please contact membership@csgga.org
When your jubilee bunting is ready, please contact membership@csgga.org Judging will take place on 28th May.
We are inviting the children and young people of Chalfont St Giles to design and make some bunting to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. There will be a prize for the best entry. The bunting entries will be sewn together and displayed around the Church over the Jubilee weekend. Adults can also join in and enter, but prizes will only be awarded to those under 18!
How to Enter
Using a template for the bunting which can be found here, you can decorate the front as you wish. You could:
- Use fabric paint with a ready-made stamp or make one from a potato or sponge;
- Glue or sew on ribbon, felt, fabric, buttons or lace.
- Use fabric pens to draw a picture
- Embroider it
See below or click here for ideas or go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOVxBfHUAJY
Have fun!
We would like you to use recycled fabric. While the official colours of the Jubilee is purple and platinum, we would prefer you to use red, white or blue fabric as the bunting will be used to decorate the Competitions Marquee of the Village Show in future years. If you don’t have any suitable scraps of fabric or have any other questions, please contact membership@csgga.org
When your jubilee bunting is ready, please contact membership@csgga.org Judging will take place on 28th May.
Next Meeting - Thursday, 16th June – Summer Outing to Stokes Poges Memorial Gardens
Church Lane, Stoke Poges, Slough, Berks, SL2 4NZ
Please note: it is on the 3rd Thursday of the month on this occasion.
After Frazi Cheesman’s talk about the Memorial Gardens at Stoke Poges, many members were keen to see them for themselves. So, we have arranged a vist there for our Summer Outing. The gardens contain formal and informal water features, a colonnade, rose garden, woodland, rock garden and open parkland with stunning views across the Capability Brown landscape and Repton bridge to Stoke Park.
The gardens will be open exclusively for our visit, Franzi and her colleague will give us a guided tour and then we’ll be free to wander before regrouping to enjoy prosecco or elderflower presse and strawberry tarts. We do need to know the numbers by Thursday 9th June and there will be a small charge of £6.00 per person for entry and the tour – the refreshments are being subsidised.
Please let Sam Patel know if you will be joining us so that we can buy the correct number of strawberry tarts! 01494 875319 sumitrardpatel@outlook.com
Please make your own way there, parking is available. We will do our best to facilitate car shares, if necessary. Please let Briony or Sam know if you can offer a lift or would like one.
Please note: it is on the 3rd Thursday of the month on this occasion.
After Frazi Cheesman’s talk about the Memorial Gardens at Stoke Poges, many members were keen to see them for themselves. So, we have arranged a vist there for our Summer Outing. The gardens contain formal and informal water features, a colonnade, rose garden, woodland, rock garden and open parkland with stunning views across the Capability Brown landscape and Repton bridge to Stoke Park.
The gardens will be open exclusively for our visit, Franzi and her colleague will give us a guided tour and then we’ll be free to wander before regrouping to enjoy prosecco or elderflower presse and strawberry tarts. We do need to know the numbers by Thursday 9th June and there will be a small charge of £6.00 per person for entry and the tour – the refreshments are being subsidised.
Please let Sam Patel know if you will be joining us so that we can buy the correct number of strawberry tarts! 01494 875319 sumitrardpatel@outlook.com
Please make your own way there, parking is available. We will do our best to facilitate car shares, if necessary. Please let Briony or Sam know if you can offer a lift or would like one.
Proposed Community Orchard2022 is the Queen’s platinum jubilee year and we are all being encouraged to plant a tree for the jubilee. Additionally, the Government is urging us all to “plant for our planet”. Read more
We've set up a CSGGA Facebook Group - March 2021
Our Facebook page is open to all, not only CSGGA Members. Anyone with an interest in gardening can join this group to discuss gardening matters, ask or answer questions about gardening and just chat all things garden! Whether you have a garden, a few plants on your windowsill or containers, join in the conversation! We’re a group of enthusiastic amateur gardeners who are sharing thoughts, knowledge and experience but any advice is not professional (unless stated otherwise).
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December 2021
On the coldest day of the year, just over 20 of us visited Waddesdon for their Christmas Lights. Perhaps it was the cold but there were mixed reviews, some preferring Kew and Wisley. I really enjoyed it. The sky was clear when we arrived and we watched the sun set before the lights turned the landscape into a magical wonderland – the elephants were particularly spectacular as was Waddesdon Manor.
Our Plant Sale - date to be confirmed in May, 2022
As things stand at the moment, we will be able to hold our annual plant sale on the Village Green again this year, so please remember to plant some extra seeds, make additional divisions and take extra cuttings in preparation!
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