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 singersongwriter, is returning to his roots with songs written for and about people who
live and work in the countryside.
For tickets go to: www.warthogpromotions.com
Saturday 27th September 7.30 – 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 English Gardening
School. Matthew is also a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s
‘Gardener’s Question Time’ and willl talk 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 September 10.30 – 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 Eden Gardens 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 an author, naturalist ,and environmental activist
and makes a welcome return to Lowdham. In a 12month 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” Japanese Garden
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,
Lowdham NG14 7BE or on 0115 966 3219.
Local conservation and gardening groups will have stalls in the Village
Hall and there will be a café running throughout the day on Sunday
serving light refreshments, home made cakes and hot & cold drinks.