Welcome to Juliotter Garden Club
For everyone in North Cornwall who loves gardens and gardening
Meeting Times
We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7.30 in Otterham and St Juliot Village Hall, every month except December.
What's On
We have a full programme of speakers, outings and events including a summer barbecue, plant sale, social evenings and a January dinner.
Member Benefits
Members enjoy four newsletters a year and discounts at several local nurseries as well as on orders for seeds and plants.
About our club and its members
Our name Juliotter is taken from the hall where we meet (Otterham and St Juliot Village Hall).
We’re a friendly organisation sharing our skills and knowledge with each other, united by our love of gardening. It’s a constant challenge to garden in this wild and wonderful part of the country – battered by salt winds and Atlantic gales, often shrouded in mist, and with more than our fair share of rainfall.
Our Gardens
Our gardens represent every size and condition in the area; from neutral to acid soil, right through to dense alkaline clay.
Some have small, manageable gardens around new build homes; others have traditional plots with mature trees that were originally planted in Victorian times; and still others have created large gardens from what was once a field.
Some of us live at sea level, others have made a garden hundreds of feet up on the edge of Bodmin Moor.
Wildlife
Our lanes and woods are ancient and unspoilt and a haven for wild wildlife.
We share our space with badgers, squirrels, rabbits, foxes, and deer as well as all the smaller mammals, birds, butterflies and molluscs.
Though wholly delightful in the pages of Beatrix Potter, each creature brings another headache to the gardener, perhaps especially those of us who like to plant trees, and bulbs or grow our own vegetables.
A warm and friendly welcome
So there you are: it’s windy, wet, salty, exposed, and full of natural predators. It’s a wonder that we continue to garden at all. But we do. And we love meeting each other once a month and simply talking about it. We’re a pretty sociable crowd and enjoy our summer barbecues and winter celebration dinners almost as much as our monthly meetings in the hall. Visitors are sure of a warm and friendly welcome so come and join us either as a guest for the evening or as a new member.
Juliotter Garden Club Programme 2024 – 2025
- April 23rd – Ben Ruscombe-King – Endsleigh Estate and Gardens
- April 27th – Annual Plant Sale at Otterham Village Hall
- May 28th – Franca Westaway – Gardening by the Moon
- June 26th – Private visit to a member’s garden
- July 23rd – Alex Eatough – The Rewilding of Helman Tor
- August 27th – Social evening with talks games and prizes
- Sept 24th – Sid Hill – Designing a Garden for Chelsea
- Oct 22nd – Mike Stephens – Snowdrops, Daffodils and other Spring Bulbs
- Nov 26th – Nicky Gilmour – Wreaths and Table Decorations for Christmas
- Jan – Annual club dinner date TBC
- Jan 28th – Coralie Barrow – Cornish Hedges, history, construction and wildlife
- Feb 25th – TBC
Gallery of Events
Plant Sales
We have a plant sale in May every year. It is a good chance to grab a bargain.
Garden club socials
Rosemoor
Summer Barbecue
If you need to get in touch
You can get in contact with us by email or telephone:
T: 01840 261237
E: info@juliottergarden.club
