{"id":3785,"date":"2019-12-12T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2021-05-09T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T16:24:21","slug":"spring-in-the-garden-with-steve-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=3785","title":{"rendered":"Spring in the Garden with Steve Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nGrayshott Gardeners celebrated the last of our 2019 lecture evenings\nand the return of speaker Steve Bradley and his wife Val with mulled\nwine and mince pies, enjoyed thoroughly by a very large turnout of\nmembers, on a cold December night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve has appeared on TV and writes extensively about practical gardening techniques and skills. Together with his wife Val he answers questions and offers advice on panels and in the Sun newspaper, which entails keeping up to date with new production techniques, products and plants.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Steve\u2019s light-hearted talk illustrated with slides allowed members to reap the benefit of Steve\u2019s knowledge as tips and recommendations, starting with frost protection, and followed by pruning advice (loppers in the case of Mahonia, to protect fingers), lawn care, bulbs and pots and propagation were offered in quick succession. Steve\u2019s love for roses stemming from his youth spent in a rose nursery was evident; experience has taught him that hard pruning produces better and longer-lasting blooms, especially if followed by feeding (well-mixed into soil or compost); he advised to plant grafted roses an inch proud of the soil surface at the graft point, in order to prevent suckers. Another very interesting detail was the latest technique for grafting small tomato and other related cuttings, with amazing results.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\nHaving answered a number of questions from the floor, Steve was then\nthanked by Gordon Rae, our patron, for a very interesting and useful\ntalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice to\nmembers: <\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As announced at last month\u2019s AGM, our President for the past 5 years, Gill Purkiss, had to step down at the end of her term of office. This left Grayshott Gardeners with a vacancy, as nobody had come forward to take over from Gill. Gorden Rae has now kindly offered to take up the post in the interim, which will need to be confirmed by members at the next AGM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grayshott Gardeners celebrated the last of our 2019 lecture evenings and the return of speaker Steve Bradley and his wife Val with mulled wine and mince pies, enjoyed thoroughly by a very large turnout of members, on a cold December night. Steve has appeared on TV and writes extensively about practical gardening techniques and skills. … Continue reading Spring in the Garden with Steve Bradley<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}