Just 24 hours to enter
It's time to make your decisions on what classes you want to enter, which trophies you have your eye on, and then if you are lucky what...
Just 1 week to go
To the Annual Show Saturday 5th Aug Peters Lane Football field 11:30 The show is getting very close so while we are all hoping for the...
2 weeks to show day
2 weeks to go so time to start preening the pooch ready for the dog show, get talking to the veg patch, practice the baking, or look out...
Just 3 weeks to show day.
Just 3 short weeks to the Monks Risborough Horticultural Show on Sat 5th Aug 11:30 on the Risborough Rangers football field, Peters Lane...
'The Power of Plants: Healers or Killers?' Talk by Angela Wall
Angela gained a degree in Agricultural Botany followed by research into the genetics of wheat at the Plant Breeding Institute at...
Time to Dust off the thinking caps
The MRHS Annual Quiz is taking place on Saturday 22nd April, at Monks Risborough C of E School, commencing at 7.30pm. Teams of 8 Entry...
Amersham Museum Garden
We have had contact from Amersham Museum regarding their garden and the activities they have planned their message is below along with...
Monks Risborough Horticultural Society – Gardening Blog January 2023
In my last blog I was cheered by the number of perennials still flowering in our garden after an unseasonably mild start to the month....
Monks Risborough Horticultural Society – Gardening Blog
December 2022 As we move into the Christmas holidays, the unseasonably mild November weather made for pleasant garden ‘pottering’ and...
It's beginning to look alot like
It's getting to that time of year as we start to have some festive activities Starting off this Friday with our Christmas Social and...
September Blog
In my January blog I mentioned that I'd try wintering my begonia tubers in their planters with an insulating mulch of shredded dead...
My Orchid Summer
There are approximately fifty-one recognised species of wild orchid in Britain and Ireland. Nearly all are under threat as their habitats...
2 Weeks to the show.
The countdown is on, the signs and banners are out, and it's time to be deciding what entries to put in. This year along with in-person...
Schedule and top tips for domestic classes.
As all our members should now have received your copies of the 2022 schedule its a great time to take a look at what you are planning to...
May Gardening Blog.
April has brought further pleasant sunshine but very little rain. Like the farmers, gardeners are already grumbling about the impact on...
A return to meetings.
After a long gap we are very excited to return to physical meetings. The first of these will be at 8pm on Wednesday 18th May in St...
Origins of the THE MONKS RISBOROUGH SHOW
This year, it is wonderful to think we can again say that the Monks Risborough Horticultural Society’s Summer Show will be taking place...
New Facebook page going live.
We are launching a new Facebook page to advertise the Society to a wider group as well as publishing the great blogs we have been getting...