Brockweir, Hewelsfield and St. Briavels Garden Society is a friendly group

of enthusiastic gardeners who meet above the Wye Valley in the Royal Forest

of Dean, Gloucestershire. Area Location map.

 

Each month we either have a speaker, event or an arranged group visit which allows members to socialise and exchange ideas. See the 2010 programme. 

You are very welcome to. Join us.

By providing support to St. Briavels village primary school Gardening Club we aim to promote gardening from an early age.

We also support the welfare of our local bees. In recent years we have given a grant to a new beekeeper to help with the necessary costs of setting up a beehive within the parishes of St. Briavels and Brockweir and Hewelsfield.

 

 

 

 Carol Klein - Our Celebrity Speaker 

 

As part of our 25^th Anniversary Celebrations we will welcome Carol Klein as our celebrity speaker on the 24^th September when she will be at the Royal Forest of Dean Theatre, Five Acres, Coleford.

 

Some 450 enthusiastic gardeners from garden societies throughout Gloucestershire will be there to hear Carol give an illustrated talk on ‘The Gardening Year at Glebe Cottage’, her own garden in North Devon, and answer questions from the audience. She will be signing copies of her book’ Grow Your Own Garden: How to Propagate All Your Own Plants’, which can be purchased on the night.

 

Carol is an inspiring and enthusiastic gardener who, as a presenter on the BBC's Gardener’s World, has a hands-on approach to sharing her extensive gardening knowledge. She is a winner of six gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show and has written a number of bestselling books.

 

In January 2010, the BBC announced that Carol is to present a new six part series on BBC 2,  ‘Life and Death in a Cottage Garden’, in which she will guide viewers through a year in the lifecycle of her own garden at Glebe Cottage in Devon.