We say good bye to a disappointing summer and look forward to our new autumn programme for the rest of 2024.

About gardens big and small through history.

After No Mow May, the creeping buttercups are having a hay day in the meadows.

Pip has had enough of the long rainy Spring and stops short of throwing in the trowel.

Bulbs are having a hard time this spring after the long soggy winter.

It is not only the naming of cats that is a difficult matter. Plant names can compete here.

Pip, our Chairman, has made peace with pigeon visitors to his garden and continues to stay away from using poisons to manage undesirable infestations.

Pip, our chairman, enjoys his winter garden and celebrates being visited by Goldfinches.

We are grateful for winter greenery, even if it is provided by the humble ivy.

gardening in very small places, just like the B&Q winner with his 6 square meters of space.

All the signs of autumn are around us and the spiders are getting busy.

What can we gardeners do to help Nature which has changed its timetable and has become less predictable?

Some weeds can be a splendid addition to the planting scheme!

It turns out that fennel does not respond gratefully to mollycoddling...

How attitudes to gardeners have changed since Victorian days!

Pip celebrates that there is a season for daffodils, leeks, magnolias, cherry blossoms, hydrangeas and just about everything else.

Pip observes an oil beetle hitching a ride on a bee to the hive, where it thanks its hosts with eating up their nectar, bees eggs and pollen and then moves on for a future with a new oily mate.

Nature reserve with circa 1400 trees planted on Doctors Hill in Wookey is holding an open day again.

This month we are focusing on snowdrops and which vegetables we would like to grow this year, even on the smallest plots.

Winter happiness for gardeners in the style of Thomas de Quincey and Pip our club's chairman.

Pip, our Chairman, announces the next gathering with a quiz on 12 January 2023.

Pip reminisces, inspired by Strawberry Trees, strawberry fruit and school music lessons with lyrics about Strawberry Fairs.

October is a 'leafy month' when we are particularly enjoying the giants like gunnera, tetrapanax and colocasia.

Pip is sad about his scruffy parched garden but happily looking forward to September's talk of Wells Gardening Club.

When you cannot remember the name of plants, just call them all "Amnesias"!

This month's advice: let the grass grow!

Pip raves about Lady Hillingdon - the name of a beautiful rose.

For our chairman spring is a pleasant event and he advertises the talk for members on 12 May entitled "India - a two way trade".

This nature reserve has been nurtured since 2013 on 4 acres and now has over 1000 native trees, animals and wildflowers.

In this article we look back over a talk about Compton Acres and we look forward to an evening focusing on hedgehogs.

After which plant did George Washington name his horse? The clue is in the picture.

Pip comforts himself with colourful seed packets and looks forward to the first meeting of members in two years.

A new year has started and gardeners look forward with optimism and plan a riot of colour for the garden.

Garden centres dress up in "winter white" whilst Nature shows its true seasonal colours.

The calendar of events 2021 for the Wells Gardening Club ends with a visit to the magnificent gardens of Lady Farm.

How to work up a good rich loam: either listen to a Canadian humourist or try again as in past years with happy optimism.

Flowers are starting to spill out of gardens and overhang walls, all to the delight of passers-by and small creatures.

Summer brings weeds and wildlife as well as two opportunities to visit gardens with club members.

Our summer green gardens are now well visited by humans, nibbling deer, earth worms, earwigs and green flies.

Robins have a habit of nesting in the most unusual places.

When changing the shape of one's lawn there could be an unintended outcome.

Wells Gardening Club members are hopeful to be able to make gardening visits and have visitors to their own gardens.

It is ok to say 'no' to the offerings of sprawling plants that come as well meaning gifts in little pots and then take over the whole garden.

Snowdrops announce spring and entertain Galanthus enthusiasts.

To give small creatures a hiding space, not too much tidying is very much recommended.

Pip is grateful for the festival of Christmas in the middle of winter and praises Cotoneaster for berries and bird food.

Pip cheers himself up with one of Nature's jokers and adds a gnome too.

Members meet again after six long months of Corona induced absence in the Bishop's Palace Gardens.

Less mowing enables insects and butterflies to thrive more.

How to grow Lillies and deal with Lillie Beetles.