THERE'LL be gardening chat aplenty at Slimbridge Gardening Club's next meeting.

Mandy Bradshaw - the 'Chatty Gardener' - is to give a talk entitled Beyond the Garden Gate at Slimbridge village hall on Tuesday, February 12 at 7.30pm.

A horticultural journalist, Mandy writes a garden blog called thechattygardener.com and scooped the title of 'Gardening Journalist of the Year 2018.

She will be entertaining club members with anecdotes and snippets about her life and her garden.