2026 EVENTS AT ST MICHAEL'S

A CELEBRATION OF 40 YEARS OF HORTUS

SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 3.30pm

HORTUS - A Gardening Journal. Founded in 1987.

You are warmly invited by David Wheeler & Simon Dorrell to an afternoon's entertainment of readings and music at St Michael's Church, Discoed on Saturday 21 November at 3.30pm to celebrate 40 years of David Wheeler’s internationally acclaimed gardening quarterly HORTUS, which will cease publication at the end of this year.

Participants include Christopher Goode and Kay Foreman (reading), Marion Rowlett (mezzo soprano), Nathaniel Harrison (bassoon), Jeremy Fisher (piano) and Ruth Watson (oboe).

Refreshments will be served gratis in the interval, and a few rare back copies of HORTUS will be available to buy.

Tickets (£10) should be reserved now by emailing ruthwatsonreeds@gmail.com which can then be paid for by card or cash at the door on arrival.

Midwinter Concert - Rousing songs and merry music

SOLD OUT

St Michael's Church, Discoed, on Saturday 19 December 2026, 6.30 pm.

Whitton Voices and Sue Harris with Benji and George Kirkpatrick, plus a surprise guest.

£12/children free. Proceeds to Refugee Action.

Booking essential 01547 550158 or sumarieharris@btinternet.com