It is always such an honour to be invited in to the heart of a community to speak to a club or society, judge a flower show and just occasionally to judge the best wheelbarrow! Barrow (near to the Humber Bridge have an annual festival at the start of June, the sun was shining, the…
DetailsGood morning Doug Many thanks for your most enjoyable presentation yesterday evening. When I sold the tickets I told everyone that you were an entertaining and informative speaker and I congratulate myself on having got that spot-on. It is a great skill to package so much interesting information into such a relaxing and easy-to-listen-to format.…
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Oh how I remember as a child standing in Davidson’s toy shop, surrounded by train sets, track, scenery and every imaginable type of toy. Now lets move on 50 years (can it really be that long) and the same feeling is with me when I visit my favourite plant buying places. You see the garden…
Details“On behalf of the members of Eastoft Gardening Club, may I take this opportunity to thank you for a very informative, educational and witty presentation. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Many of our members left the meeting with ideas and inspiration for their own gardens at home. We look forward to welcoming you back to…
DetailsIt is always great to receive good feedback after giving a talk, in particular if it is a new gardening club that I have not been to before. So it was lovely to receive the following comments from Emley Gardening Club… A huge thank you for your talk It was brilliant We will be booking…
DetailsI was invited to speak at Elvaston Gardening Club near Derby this week. It was their Christmas meeting, so I spoke on Gardening for the Winter Solstice finishing the evening off with a quiz. This lovely email has just come in from the organisers of the evening… Many thanks for your excellent talk to Elvaston…
DetailsAfter a lovely evening spent at Long Bennington Garden Club at their Christmas Social (where they had booked “The Way We Were”), I was delighted to receive this comment from Speaker Finder Bev. Hi Doug – thank you so much for coming so far down the A1 last night to get us all in the…
DetailsI have just had an email from Bluebell Gardening Club, who endured “The Drunken Gardener” recently, Jan their organiser said… “The reports back have been great, a thoroughly informative and humerous evening that was enjoyed by all, a great start to our club year.” “Many Thanks and I’m sure I’ll be in touch again…
DetailsI am currently doing research for my talk on novel new methods of pest and disease control.
This BBC feature is fascinating me…
I was asked by Chris who runs Wheldrake Gardening Club if I had thought of giving a talk which is informal, with plenty of options for questions and answers, that is basked on sharing the latest research and development that is going on around the world. So, as this is a real interest of mine,…
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