CREDITON Garden Club has arranged an interesting and varied programme of horticultural meetings starting on Tuesday, September 27.

Our meetings are held at Crediton Library, Belle Parade and begin at 7pm. Annual subscriptions are now due, £12 per annum or £2.50 per meeting.

All welcome, refreshments will be available.

We will also be hosting a stall at the Sustainable Crediton Green Fair to be held on the Town Square on September 24.

If you have any surplus seeds or produce, well-rooted labelled cuttings or horticultural items, please consider donating them to our stall. Just bring them along to the square.

Our group is entirely self funded so we rely on the generosity of our supporters. Thank you in advance.

Our September speaker is Michael Gee who is a leading member of Orchards Live in North Devon, whose aims include saving and planting traditional apple, pear and mozzarella cherry orchards.

It was set up by Michael as the Save Our Orchards campaign and is supported by Dartington North Devon Charitable Trust, which he joined in 1987 as a director.

Michael is author of the Devon Orchards book, sponsored by CPRE Devon (Campaign for Rural England).

He is a member of Mazzards, the revival of the curious North Devon cherry.

Jonathan Webster, Curator of RHS Rosemoor garden says: “We welcome the production of this new book to raise awareness of the wonderful diversity of Devon’s traditional apple varieties, many of which are now rare.

“If we can encourage people to grow them then they can come off the endangered list.”

Come along and find out how traditional heritage Devon orchards are being regenerated.

Krys Dunn