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18 February 2026
How to Grow a Foliage Garden a talk by Philip Oostenbrink

Wye Gardeners talks are held in Wye Small Village Hall and start at 7.30pm please arrive after 7.00pm

Wye Gardeners Welcome you to a talk by Philip Oostenbrink

Peter is Head Gardener at Walmer Castle where one of his first projects was to plant a jungle garden in the moat.

Foliage

This talk follows on from his book The Jungle Garden, which mainly focuses on how to combine foliage. He will discuss different aspects of this and show examples of good combinations of foliage plants.

He will also discuss the differences between exotic/tropical gardens and jungle gardens. His aim for jungle gardens is to use plants which are fully hardy in the UK so people won’t have to worry about digging plants up and overwintering them.


Everyone is welcome to come to our talks.
Why not join the society and come to all of our talks for free, its only £15 for the year.
Otherwise we charge £5 for each talk if you are not a member.

We hope you will join us in February.
As usual there will be a raffle after the talk followed by refreshments.


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