Hopton and District Garden Guild

The first meeting of our new membership year in September welcomed a good attendance enjoying a talk and slide show by Gill Sykes entitled Two powerful ladies of Staffs and Derby. The two ladies were Bess of Hardwick and Emily Meynell of Hoar Cross Hall. 

Our speaker at the meeting on October 6th will be Jeff Bates with another of his great gardening talks: Historic gardens of Derbyshire. Looking further forward to November we have Bob Marsh with a talk about Beaudesert Gardens. 

Membership of the guild renews in September and is only £15-00 per year.

We are pleased to encourage visitors (£2-50) to our monthly meetings, where you will be made welcome and be entertained by speakers covering a wide variety of interests. We have a light hearted competition each meeting for flowers or craft. Tea, coffee and biscuits are included, followed by a raffle to round off the evening. We meet on the first Tuesday each month at 7-30pm in Hopton village hall. For information please contact Jill Buss on:  01785 - 259808 or look out for our yellow monthly newsletter on local village notice boards.