Local Gardening Groups
Horticultural Societies
A friendly club where we hold monthly meetings with a guest speaker on an interesting range of gardening and nature-related topics. In addition, there is a monthly newsletter, two shows a year and a trading hut. Our aim is to share our love of gardening and wildlife together in a welcoming and sociable atmosphere.
| Location: | Finchampstead |
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| Regular meeting arrangements: | Place: California Ratepayers’ Hall Time: 7.45 first Monday of the month |
| Contact details: | Dick Hawes, Chairman Telephone: 0118 979 3730 Email: californiagardenersclub@gmail.com |
| Web site: | https://www.californiagardenersclub.co.uk/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/groups/207934410581605 |
We are a gardening club of around 500 members in Caversham. Our aims are to enjoy gardening and to help and encourage others to do so too. We are affiliated to the Royal Horticultural Society.
| Location: | Caversham |
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| Regular meeting arrangements: | Place: Caversham Primary School, Hemdean Road Time: One Wednesday evening per month |
| Web site: | http://www.caversham-horticultural.org.uk |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/CavershamHorticulturalSociety |
Your Local Gardening Club covering Sonning Common, Peppard, Kidmore End and the surrounding area. The Society holds evening talks during the winter months and coach trips to interesting gardens during the summer. We hold two flower and produce shows a year and a summer garden reception for members and guests.
| Location: | Sonning Common, Peppard and Kidmore End |
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| Regular meeting arrangements: | Place: Peppard War Memorial Hall, Gallowstree Road, Peppard Common, RG9 Time: |
| Contact details: | Email: cehs561@gmail.com |
| Web site: | https://cehs.co.uk/ |
Formed in January 1941, we are a friendly group of people with some interest in growing things. We meet once a month, for talks or social events, in St Peter's church hall, Earley. There's a monthly newsletter and we run a trading shed for gardening needs, all for a small annual subscription (currently £3).
| Location: | Reading |
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| Regular meeting arrangements: | Place: St Peter's Church Hall, Earley Time: |
| Contact details: | Neal Stockwell Email: erhs@hotmail.co.uk |
| Web site: | http://www.erhs.org.uk/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/groups/EastReadingHorticulturalSociety |
The Society operates a small trading store, for members, with a stock of regularly used gardening products such as composts, fertilisers, pest control products, flower pots and a small range of garden tools. Larger gardening items may be ordered. In the spring, discounted purchase of seeds and seed potatoes is available.
| Location: | Purley on Thames |
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| Regular meeting arrangements: | Place: The Memorial Hall, Glebe Road, Purley RG8 8DP Time: |
| Web site: | https://www.purleyonthames.org.uk/PHS/ |
Provides the normal activities of a horticultural society, including talks (in conjunction with SAHGA Shinfield Allotment Holders and Gardners' Association), seasonal shows, open gardens, plus the annual Swallowfield Show.
| Location: | Swallowfield |
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| Regular meeting arrangements: | Place: Swallowfield Parish Hall, Swallowfield Street, Swallowfield RG7 1QX Time: 2nd Thursday of the month |
| Web site: | https://www.swallowfieldshow.co.uk/swallowfield-horticultural-society/ |
The THA aims to provide to the gardeners of Tilehurst, sundry goods in realistic quantities and reasonable prices and increase the knowledge of and interest in, gardening in general. Volunteers drawn from the membership run the THA, and provide the staffing of the two Trading sheds. We also hold a series of talks in the winter, normally on the last Thursday of the month, a Summer Show on the 1st Saturday in August and a social evening in May. For full details see our website.
| Location: | Tilehurst |
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| Contact details: | Pauline Sinclair, Secretary Email: tilehurstha@gmail.com |
| Web site: | http://tilehurstha.org.uk/ |
Promotes an interest in all types of gardening: flowers, plants, fruit and vegetables, open to residents of Twyford, Ruscombe and surrounding areas. We have a Trading Store next to the Health Centre in Loddon Hall Road, publish a regular newsletter and run shows, talks and day trips.
| Location: | Twyford |
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| Contact details: | Myrddin Jones, Chairman Email: trhaengland@gmail.com |
| Web site: | https://www.trha.org.uk/ |
A gardening club to inform, educate and entertain through the love of gardening. We organise lectures, hold annual spring and summer shows and run occasional garden visits. Visitors are welcome at our monthly meetings. As well as an invited speaker, we usually have a small competition.
| Location: | Goring-on-Thames |
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| Regular meeting arrangements: | Place: Storton Lodge, Icknield Road, Goring-on-Thames Time: First Wed of the month at 7.45 pm |
| Contact details: | Mrs.C.Leary, Chairperson Telephone: 07971 737983 Email: dustydaisydub@gmail.com |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/Village-Greenfingers-Gardening-ClubGoring-On-Thames-289444991547590/ |
A gardeners' club for the Wargrave area
| Location: | Wargrave |
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| Regular meeting arrangements: | Place: Hannen Room, Mill Green RG10 8EU Time: Last Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/pg/WargraveGC/ |