Whickham Hermitage Community Garden

Newsletter 2010

2010-12-14T09:31:00.000Z

Happy New Year Everyone.

The start of a New Year once again and I hope the start of new things in the garden. I would like to take this time to thank all those people who constantly support the garden in all our fundraising effors, you made 2010 a milestone year - especially the four day Heritage weekend in September.

We will be starting our New Year off with an Annual General Meeting on Thursday 27th January 2011 at 7pm in Whickham Community Centre. There will be wine and cheese with possible nibbles. Please come along and participate. We are always looking for new faces with new and bright ideas to help the Garden deliver what you would like. We are keen to encourage brain as well as brawn. An idea that has been thought about would be to resurrect Whickham Gardeners' Club. The Garden would be ideal for hands-on demonstrations such as pruning, etc.

Should we ever get our Orangery this again would be a perfect venue. Those of you who are regular visitors are probably getting sick of hearing about it, yet there is still no real progress. However we are submitting a further bid to the big lottery. Because of this bid we intend to set the Garden up as a not-for-profit community enterprise, limited by guarantee with charitable status. This is why it would be a tremendous asset to be able to attract younger people to come on board.

Please do not think that the garden is a closed shop, this is not the case. So to help us get over all this stodgy business stuff how about we let our hair down on Saturday 12th February 2011 at 7:30pm at Blaydon Rugby Club for a disco and buffet. Tickets are £6. Anyone wanting information call Dave Peacock on 07854 438 187 or e-mail sharonpeacock@btinternet.com

2010-09-10T16:38:00.003+01:00

3D visualisations have been created showing how the proposed cafe will look. View them all here:

http://www.whickhamhermitagegarden.co.uk/gallery/futuregallery.htm

They were made by my husband Paul, so I'd better plug his name here, too: http://www.paulbelldesign.co.uk/

"New" old photos

2010-08-28T10:25:00.003+01:00

Sorted through the pictures on CD and found some new pics for the site:

New photos have been added to the Garden Gallery and the Plants Gallery.

Summer Open Weekend

2010-08-15T10:48:00.001+01:00

Events are confirmed for the Summer Open Weekend (part of Heritage Open Days 9th - 12th September).

After 6 years of hard work we invite you to come and celebrate the completion of your garden...

Thursday 9th
- Refreshments
- Plant Sale
- Come and have your Caricature done by local artist

Friday 10th
- Refreshments
- Plant Sale
- Second Hand Books/CDs

Saturday 11th
- Refreshments
- Bag-Piper 11am - 1pm
- Plant Sale
- Second Hand Books/CDs
- Face Painting

Sunday 12th
- Refreshments
- Plant Sale
- Second Hand Books/CDs
- Marvellous Monsters will be here from 12-2pm will their wonderful Owls, Chilli Rose Tarantula and Royal Python (£1 donation to have your picture taken with the animals)

Free entry to the garden, open 10am - 4pm

2010-08-08T16:31:00.001+01:00

The website's had a re-jig already to incorporate "Ask Dave", where you can e-mail Dave with any gardening questions you might have. The e-mail's whickhamhermitagegarden@gmail.com

2010-08-02T18:10:00.000+01:00

The garden will be taking part in Heritage Open Days from 9th - 12th September. There will be tea and coffee available, a plant sale, and other activities.

2010-07-29T10:39:00.006+01:00

MP David Miliband visited the garden last weekend for a Labour Party function.

View more pictures here

The garden will be represented at the fourth largest horticultural event in the country: Gateshead Summer Flower Show. There will be displays, floral art, a craft fair, demonstrations, a continental market, speciality food, live entertainment, and much more.

Location Gateshead Central Nursery, Whickham Highway, Lobley Hill, Gateshead, NE11 9RQ

Open 10am - 5:30pm each day

Click here for more info

2010-07-24T10:48:00.002+01:00

Photos of the restoration work are now up on the site here

2010-07-23T18:09:00.000+01:00

Photos are now on the site here

2010-07-23T16:09:00.003+01:00

Judges from Northumbria in Bloom visited the garden, which is being judged as part of Whickham's entry.

Dave is also up for the President's Award for Outstanding Voluntary Contribution by a Private Individual in Support of Northumbria in Bloom.

Lots of pictures were taken for the website (could really have done with a wide-angle camera for most of them), which will be added to the site in the next few days.

New website

2010-07-17T10:24:00.000+01:00

The new site is up-and-running at www.whickhamhermitagegarden.co.uk .