Lowdham Festivals and Lowdham Horticultural Society present
Birds, Bees, Gardens, Trees
Friday 26th – Sunday 28th September 2014
Lowdham Village Hall
Friday 26th 8pm
Steve Knightley’s Grow Your Own Gig
‘Show of Hands’ acclaimed front man and BBC award winning singer-songwriter, is returning to his roots with songs written for and about people who live and work in the countryside.
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Saturday 27th September7.30 – 9pm
‘The People’s Gardener’, Matthew Biggs, in conversation with Phil McCann
Matthew has written several books including‘Gardening at Eden and how to do it at home’. He contributes to the Royal Horticultural Society Journal, lectures at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and is a course Director at the EnglishGardeningSchool. Matthew is also a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Gardener’s Question Time’ and willltalk to local gardener Phil McCann.Phil works on BBC’s Gardeners' World, Grow your Own with Carol Klein and the Great British Garden Revival. He writes for The Telegraph, is garden expert for BBC WM, & has written four gardening books & a children's book, Cropper the Carrot. Come and share the gardening passion!
Tickets:£7 full, £6 conc, £5 Friends & Lowdham HortSoc members Wine and soft drinks on sale
Sunday 28th September10.30 – 11.30am
“Return to Eden” with Stuart Dixon. An illustrated talk
Local garden expert and lecturer, Stuart has restored his own 18th century garden at Hebb’s Farmhouse, Stoke Bardolph. Today he will share with us a look at the early days of the Eden Project in Cornwall and the EdenGardens in New Zealand. Stuart is a regular panellist on Radio Nottingham’s Gardeners’ Question Time and is a National Trust and RHS speaker.
Tickets: £5 full, £4 Conc, £3 Friends & Lowdham HortSoc members
11.45am – 12.30pm
Bees & Honey with Hattie Ellis
A hot topic, with beekeeping soaring in popularity, and a growing awareness of the vital role played by bees in our survival.Hattie Ellis has won multiple food writing awards and will talk about her new book “Spoonfuls of Honey”. There will be honey on sale from Gonalston Farm Shop.
Tickets: £6 full, £5 Conc, £4 Friends & Lowdham HortSoc members
Jacqueline Gabbitas from Writing East Midlands and author of the new poetry collection Small Grass, will read between sessions throughout the day.
2 – 2.45pm
Mark Avery - A Message From Martha
Mark Avery is a scientist and naturalist, and worked for the RSPB for 25 years. He is a passionate conservation campaigner, and in this book he tells the story of the passenger pigeon and its seemingly inexplicable demise. He will be in conversation with Mark Cocker.“a wildlife guru” The Guardian
Tickets: £6 full, £5 Conc, £4 Friends & Lowdham HortSoc members
3.15 – 4pm Mark Cocker’s Claxton
Mark is anauthor, naturalist,and environmental activist and makes a welcome return to Lowdham. In a 12-month cycle of daily writings, the author of the marvellous Birds and People explores his relationship to the East Anglian landscape, and to all the living things around him: not just birds, but plants, trees, mammals, grasshoppers, ants and bumblebees too.Illustrated
Tickets: £6 full, £5 Conc, £4 Friends & Lowdham HortSoc members
7 – 8.30pm Buddha Maitreya’s “Pureland” JapaneseGarden
Featured in the AA book “The Inspirational Garden”, and Reader’s Digest “The Most Amazing Gardens to Visit in Britain”, Pureland is the creation of Zen monk, Buddha Maitreya. He will share the story of the creation of his beautiful garden at North Clifton, near Newark, and the benefits of being at peace with the natural world around us.
Tickets: £6 full, £5 Conc, £4 Friends & Lowdham HortSoc members
Make a day of it on Sunday 28th September and save money!
Day ticket: £25 full, £20 concessions, £15 Friends/HortSoc members
Tickets on sale from The Bookcase, 50 Main Street, LowdhamNG14 7BE or on 0115 966 3219.
Local conservation and gardening groups will have stalls in the Village Hall andtherewill be a café runningthroughout the day on Sunday serving light refreshments, home made cakes and hot cold drinks.