It is now twenty five years since The Cottage Garden Society was founded by a few keen gardeners. They were concerned about the move to easily-maintained gardens where hard landscaping was threatening to become more important than the plants.
Their aim was to encourage the more traditional style of gardening and ensure that older varietes and species of garden plant were not lost.
The Worcestershire Group was founded in 2004 and the first of our regular meetings was on 22nd January 2005 at Powick Village Hall when the Speaker was Reg. Moule of BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester. Rob Baston was our first chairman; he is now hononary president of our group and serves on the committee of the National Society.
Each month from October to March we host a talk, usually accompanied by slides, and each month from April to September field trips are organised.
At least once a year we arrange a "bring and buy" plant sale and at our autumn/winter meetings we always have plants on sale.
All members receive The Society’s quarterly magazine "The Cottage Gardener" and our local group’s quarterly newsletter. Our gallery pages provide a photographic record of our field trips.
Membership of the Cottage Garden Society entitles you to membership of our local group. For more details see out membership page in this section.
Many months of planning, assembling and building went into the preparation of a special Silver Anniversary Stand for the CGS at the Malvern Spring Show 2007. The stand was visited and admired by many but, unfortunately, did not please the judges sufficiently for an award.
The idea was to show an ordinary house and garden, split down the middle, with one half in the style of 1982 and the other 2007. For those on the committee who undertook this formidable task and those who manned the stall on the Show days, it represented clearly the part the CGS has played in the formation and care of gardens over the past 25 years.