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Garden Club

The Garden Club is a ProParte sub-group.

Aim

To visit gardens, nurseries, estates and museums of garden history; also lectures about barden history. Frequency: one meeting a month.

Membership

ProParte members

Number of members About 15

Fees

€ 15 per year

Contact person

Joke Ploem-Zaaijer
jokeploem@hotmail.com

2024 Annual report

Although our aim is to provide our members with a monthly activity, we have not been able to realise this intention in 2024. In part, this is caused by our limited range due to the increasing age of our members. But the enthusiasm is no less.

In February and March, we attended lectures on trees and on pruning shrubs and bushes. Both lectures were organised by Groei en Bloei, which guarantees beautiful illustrations and systematic explanations. April was the month to look at the shrubs. A distant trip this time, to Sijpesteijn Castle with its beautiful woodland garden.

The highlight of the year was the outing to Boskoop. There we visited the Waterside Garden, a recently landscaped garden with incredibly lush borders. It was then also the garden of a grower who had put plants in the ground from his 2nd year. To conclude the garden visit, we boarded a boat to experience the history of Boskoop.

In July, we visited the garden of hospitable Gretha Hoek in Oegstgeest in the pouring rain. We then had lunch at the Oude School in Warmond.

The next outing went to Hazerswoude-Dorp. Hidden between the greenhouses and plots of the horticultural area is a little paradise: De Groene Kathedraal, created by Tom and Conny van Dijk. They placed a double row of beeches, put up a cave-like wall with a statue of Mary and a watchtower. Hidden between the greenhouses and plots of the horticultural area is a small paradise: The Green Cathedral, created by Tom and Conny van Dijk. They placed a double row of beeches, erected a cave-like wall with a statue of Mary and a watchtower. In a clearing stands the Green Cathedral, a metal skeleton in green with stained-glass windows. We then had lunch at tea garden 't Woutje.

In early autumn, we went to the restaurant Como and Co on Lake Como in Noordwijkerhout before heading to the Geerlings dahlia garden in Kadijk.

Finally, we again made Christmas arrangements for our Christmas lunch.

Does this programme appeal to you? You are welcome to join us on one of our outings.

In 2025, we will go to Park Matilo in Leiden with the Roman herb garden and medieval monastery garden, among others.

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