Your Local Gardening Club
Sonning Common, Peppard, Kidmore End and the surrounding area.
Welcome to the website of your local gardening club serving Sonning Common, Peppard and the surrounding area.
Get involved with the Society on our Facebook page.
Search: Chiltern Edge Horticultural Society
Omitted from the membership card were these dates:
28th March (Sat.) Spring Show Sonning Common Village Hall 2pm-4pm
5th September (Sat.) Autumn Show Sonning Common Village Hall 2pm-4pm
Open Gardens 2026
We plan to have Open Gardens in July 2026.
Are you willing to open your garden? The garden should be in walking distance of central Sonning Common. Email cehs561@gmail.com if you are willing to open your garden.
Membership Due 1st January 2026
Use link below
Tuesday 10th March "Lawrence Johnston -Hidcote & Serre de la Madone" by Anna Steven. 7:30 PM Peppard War Memorial
Based near Oxford Anna Steven is an RHS Chelsea Gold Medal winner for floral design. She also lectures on art & garden history at the Ashmolean Museum and has a wealth of knowledge about Oxford College, Oxfordshire & Cotswold gardens.
Amongst the most famous of those Cotswold gardens is Hidcote, a superb arts & crafts garden created in the early 1900s by the reclusive American Lawrence Johnstone. Known for it’s imaginative use
of themed “garden rooms” it is now a National Trust treasure.
Hidcote was not however the only garden developed by Lawrence Johnston. 20 to 30 years after creating that gem, he laid out Serre de la Madone in the south of France. Here he focussed on sub-tropical plants more suited to the Mediterranean climate.
How do these inspiring gardens compare? Come and find out!
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Feel free to attend our events before becoming a member, most events are only £2 for non-members. Once you would like to sign up membership is only £10. Please download the form below.
Honorary Members
Mr and Mrs R. Bisgrove
Mrs J. Brewer
Mrs S. Batting
Dr. V.Morris
Mr Michael Wheeler
Mrs Janet Evans
Mr M Richards