Tender Shoots Garden Club Network

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Hi Folks

Hope you're well.  

1) We've had a new talk added to our events for the 21st of December, the speaker is former President of National Auricula and Primula Society, and National Primula Judge Alan Edmondson. 

Upcoming talks (7.15pm for 7.30pm start for most meetings unless stated otherwise):

Dec 21st Tue 7.30pm - Alan Edmondson - The Shade Garden 

Jan 12th Wed 3pm - Joe Tierney from the National Trust - Life and Gardens of Capability Brown

Jan 25th Tue 7.30pm - Andrew & Amy Skea - All about potatoes & varieties including coloured spuds

2) Our Suttons Seeds 50% discount code for 2022 is now available for our affiliated clubs and any individuals making donations to Tender Shoots.  If you have previously made an anonymous individual donation, please get in touch via email so we can send you the 50% Suttons discount code & links to restricted talks & recordings.  Huge thank you to those who have so far made donations to help keep these wonderful talks going. 😀

3) It's QUIZ-mas time and we have £500 of prizes for our Christmas Gardening Quiz on Wednesday Dec 8th 7.30pm. Everyone welcome to join in free.

Prizes include:

£200 worth of Wolf Garten Multi-Change tools

2 x pairs (so 4 in total) of annual membership cards to the Dorothy Clive Gardens

2 x bundles of Burgon & Ball RHS endorsed tools worth £57. (Bypass secateur, fruit snip, fork & trowel)

Kew Gardens tools giftset worth over £50. (3 piece toolset plus ratchet anvil secateurs & sharpener).

RSPB approved sonic cat deterrents with mains adaptor kit 

2 x 6 tuber nets of seed potatoes from www.potatohouse.co.uk

(Photos of prizes on our FaceBook page)

Round 1 - Individual so anyone can turn up and play on their own

Round 2 - Group/interclub round, so anyone can put a team together or garden clubs can compete as a group. Individuals can also join the team round as we'll create a few extra teams on the day which you can join. The group round will be played via the Zoom breakout rooms, so please register the name of your team by the end of the 7th December.

You can play just for fun, but if you would like to compete for prizes, answers will need to be submitted via a Google Forms Answer Document which will be provided on the day of the quiz. At the end of each round, the google form will need to be completed and submitted. After each round & once the forms are submitted, the winners will be announced and correct answers will be given.

Prizes winners will need to provide contact details such as name, address, email address to receive prizes.

You might even win a prize for just turning up as any extra or unclaimed prizes will be allocated randomly to entrants.

If you need any help & to reduce the chance of technical issues on the day, we are also running a practice session the day before on Tuesday 7th December at 7.30pm. You'll be able to test out all the functions, the form submission and ask any questions.

If you'll be participating in the group round, please ensure you're Zoom app is updated to the latest version (at least V5.8 ). If you're only participating in the individual round this is not necessary.

Most importantly don’t forget your Christmas hats and your favourite tipple.

Make sure you share this event with your friends

Zoom login.  It's the same login for all meetings.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4043014750?pwd=SVRibE0vRW5mTUFqdG1NblVxSlJPZz09 

Meeting ID: 404 301 4750

Passcode: bonsai

Many thanks

Indy 074 755 12323

Tender Shoots Garden Club Network 

www.tendershoots.uk 

www.facebook.com/tsgcn1

tsgcn@outlook.com  (please email us to be added to the distribution list)

www.youtube.com/c/TenderShootsGardenClubNetwork

TSGCN is a national collective of independent garden clubs working together

The zoom talks are open to anyone to attend free anytime, guests are very welcome.  However if you would like to make a donation towards supporting the costs of the talks, that would be very much appreciated and will enable us to continue running these events.  Here are the Lloyds Bank Account details. 

Ac name:  Tender Shoots Garden Club Network

Ac number:  42 42 07 63

Sort code:  30-98-97