Growing Greener Trees for Gardens – Tony Kirkham
Starts: Sat 3rd Feb 2024 13:00
- Venue: Longdown Village Hall near Exeter EX6 7SN on Saturday.
- Guests welcome at £3/person.
- You are welcome to attend all or part of the afternoon. Please note the earlier start time for the talk, if you are not lunching.
Agenda
- 1pm Bring & Share Lunch – please bring contributions to the buffet plus your own fruit juice/wine etc. Tea and coffee provided.
- 2pm Tony Kirkham’s talk ‘Growing Greener- trees for gardens’.
- 3pm Raffle, tea, coffee and biscuits
- 3.15pm AGM
Please note there will be no plant sale or competition table at the meeting but we will still hold the raffle.
Tony Kirkham was Head of the Arboretum, Gardens and Horticultural Services at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew until July 2021 when he retired after 43 years’ service. Tony sits as chairman of the RHS Woody Plant Committee and on the RHS Awards Committee alongside many other organisations. He is the author of many award winning books on trees, including his celebration of their glory in Remarkable Trees. He presented the BBC Two documentary series ‘The Trees that made Britain’.
