U3A Extra Outings for May

Nine beautiful gardens of the Salisbury Cathedral Close are open on Sunday 22nd May from 2.00 – 5.30 pm.  Entry is £8 (children under 12 free) or £5 for Friends.  Everyone is welcome!  Please use city centre car parks – Culver Street is free on Sundays and there is limited parking in the Close for disabled badge holders only, £6 payable.  For further information please contact the Friends on 01722 335161.  Teas & home-made cakes will be available in the Bishop’s Garden at the South Canonry – proceeds shared with Sudan Link.  Donation includes Entry Programme for admission to all featured gardens, payable on the day from Choristers’ Green, and in advance from 17th May from the Friends’ Office, 33a The Close SP1 2EJ.

The garden at Ordnance House, West Dean, Salisbury SP5 1JE will open in support of the National Garden Scheme on Sunday, 29 May 2016 between noon and 5pm. Adults £3.50, children free and dogs, are of course, welcome. Teas and cakes will be available along with a fantastic plant sale of unusual cottage garden plants.

Gardeners' Question Time at Stonehenge on Tuesday 24th May -- The celebrated panel of gardening experts will be tackling the questions put to them by local gardening enthusiasts, with Eric Robson in the chair and the team being made up of Anne Swithinbank, Matthew Biggs, and Pippa Greenwood.  Gardeners' Question Time is a Radio 4 institution, attracting over 2 million listeners a week. Recorded in a different location each week, this long-standing radio programme has answered well over 30,000 questions since its inception in 1947.  The panel members have been guests of a diverse range of gardening clubs and other organisations; including a telecommunications call centre and the London Transport Museum.  The panel NEVER see the questions before the recording. Their encyclopaedic, seemingly effortless answers are completely spontaneous and reveal their huge experience and depth of gardening knowledge. Being on the GQT panel is not for the faint hearted.  Tickets are available from http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/gardeners-question-time-stonehenge-24-may/

Celebrating Art in the Garden is an exhibition of contemporary sculpture by leading artists in a stunning garden setting at West Lavington Manor, Wiltshire SN10 4LA from Thursday 26th May to Sunday 12th June from 11am to 6pm -- Open on Bank holiday Monday 30th May, closed Tuesday 31st May, Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th June.  Adults £7, Children under 16 free.  Seniors £5 except NGS day on 11th June.

Golden Age Tours operate a day excursion program visiting many towns, cities and attractions across the south of England. Just a few of the places they will visit this year are Wimborne, Weymouth, Lyme Regis, Bourton-on-the -water, Windsor, Brighton, Cardiff, Chichester and many, many more. For a days shopping you may wish to visit Clark's shopping Village, Street, Bicester shopping Village or Oxford Street, London. For a day out with the children you may fancy Marwell Zoo, Monkey World or BovingtonTank Museum. There are lots to choose from and all are reasonably priced. The best part is we PICK YOU UP and DROP YOU OFF at your door (within Salisbury City limits). For those who work during the week many trips run on a Sunday.  Nine of their trips are to famous gardens or flower shows as follow:

 

Thursday 19th May Mottisfont House and Gardens

Sunday 5th June  The savill Garden

Sunday 19th June BBC Gardeners World Live show

Tuesday 28th June  Stourhead Gardens

Friday 8th July  Hampton Court Flower show

Sunday 10th July  RHS Gardens, Wisley

Thursday 1st September  Stourhead Gardens

 

If any are of interest to you, you can view the brochure on line by visiting www.salisbury-minibuses.co.uk and clicking on Golden age Tours or you can contact Dave at Arrowline Minibuses Ltd, Wings Dairy, Blandford Road, Coombe Bissett, Salisbury - Tel: 01722 555554 or 07557 665601 or salisburyminibuses@gmail.com or www.salisbury-minibuses.co.uk

Warmest and best wishes,

Margaret Vacha