Members Benefits

Membership benefits & activities include:
• 10% discount at local nurseries with our membership card
• 50% seeds discount from Suttons seeds. Collect a catalogue from our events*
• Regular meetings with a mixture of talks from experts & members hands-on workshops
• Free healthy high antioxidant purple seed potatoes to grow your own spuds at home**
• Free plants each month from our plant swap – Bring along your spare plants & swap them
• If you’re pruning roses/dogwoods now, then bring your spare hardwood cuttings & swap with others
• Seed swap bank – Do you have spare seed packets you’re not using, then bring them along
• Members select a free pack of seeds from the catalogue for growing & swapping seedlings
• Free visit to Dorothy Clive Gardens
• Free onlinetalks from gardening experts all over the country
• Did you know one of our Barlaston members (briefly) held a Guinness World Record for the tallest ever teasel !!! Why not join the fun in the ‘Tallest Teasel Competition’ ?

*We have a discount code for Suttons that gives you 50% off all seeds and 15% off everything else (plants, tools & accessories). You can use it on their website, or via mail order. You can either collect a copy of the Suttons catalogue from our events, or you can order one for free from Suttons to be posted to your home. Click the below link
http://www.suttons.co.uk/catalogue-request

**Limited numbers available during membership signup period

Other potential ideas we can consider this year:
Creation of a social ‘Community gardening team’
WhatsApp swappers & shopping group
Tool amnesty (got spare unloved tools? then donate them to someone)
Pot amnesty (share spare pots with others)
Library of gardening books
Harvest Celebration Party
plus lots more….

All renewing members (excluding newbie members) are expected to occasionally (at least once) help out where possible with club activities. This maybe as simple as putting out tables, handing out leaflets, helping at plant sales etc. The garden club members work cooperatively to help run activities, so all tasks are split amongst the entire membership. Although we appreciate some members maybe unable to volunteer for various reasons so their involvement maybe limited. Eventually rotas will be setup for activities.