- Anne entertained us with stories about Capel and her time there. I'm sure many of our members will visit, or re-visit, Capel Manor during the Summer (2015) and find it more enjoyable
"Thank you so much for your talk - excellent feedback - all 'excellent' or 'v good' votes! I will be back to you for next year's talks, and I will be happy to recommend you." Brenda, Speaker's Secretary St Albans U3A
- Thank You’ for your very amusing and informative talk on Monday. Everyone I have spoken to found it very interesting, even if they may not take up the ideas!
- A big thankyou for your gizmos talk. Enjoyed by all. Hope to see you again in the near future. Regards September 2026 St Stephens Gardening Club
- Just a quick note to thank you for a very informative and entertaining talk last night. You certainly inspired our members to go and visit Capel Manor, or to go there again, me included (October 2025)
- Thank you so much for your really interesting and exceptional talk which is much appreciated
- "Now don't go home without me booking another talk for next year" Elizabeth - Goffs Oak Horicultural Society
Thank you for your interesting and informative presentation to Caddington Gardening Club yesterday evening (August 2025)
- Once again thank you so much for last night - and the plant list which I will find extremely useful. I can now start planning my borders
Thanks so much for your really interesting talk on Tuesday. Capel Manor is definitely on my list for a visit now. (Sawbridgworth Evening WI - June 2025)
- "Anne has stimulated us to use our minds and explore different horticultural concepts relating them to our lives." Peggy STH Group Member at Capel Manor
The New Year for Trees talk was so interesting I had no idea of the different properties of trees and their fruits. I am still trying to ‘digest’ it all.
I will definitely look at fruit differently now. Many thanks again Susan (January 2022)
- I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and I am ever so grateful to Anne for all the information about the type of plants I could use for my shady area.
- "Anne's Wildlife talk was very interesting. I never realised how much we had lost and what is still at risk. I intend to use what I have learnt in my own garden to encourage the birds & bees." Speaker's Secretary Lea Valley U3A Garden Group
Thank you so much for joining us today for our AGM and enlightening us to how colour and shape can influence our mood. It made me think back to when I did my garden design training and you certainly demonstrated it through the pictures that you showed us. (Herts Beds & Cambs Cottage Gardening Society - May 2024)
- Just a note to thank you for your very enjoyable talk yesterday. Our ladies really enjoyed it and many of them that it inspired them to visit Capel Manor. I do hope that you will visit us again
- Thank you for your illustrated talk on Evolution and Adaption of Plants. Our members found it interesting and enjoyed it.Redbridge Pensioners Forum - February 2026
- "Thank you so much again for giving New Vistas your excellent talk yesterday, our members greatly appreciated it. You do have a lovely, clear voice which is easily heard; not always a feature prominent in a lot of our speakers. I will hope very much that you will pay us another visit next year"- Juliet
- "Just wanted to thank you again for such an interesting talk today. There was a lot of feedback from the members of the group saying they really enjoyed it & found it very informative" - Mary Kelly Croxley U3A
- "Your talk was excellent, well illustrated and very well received." Rosie, Welwyn Garden Horticultural Society
Your talk was excellent, informative and, I think, very helpful to us with all the good ideas for managing our gardens as we get older - and there were some excellent ideas. The talk was very well received as evidenced by the end of meeting gathering of our members to talk to you and to take a closer look at the examples of equipment that you brought (Hertfordshire Engineers - August 2025)
Thank you very much for coming to speak to our U3A group today, and for helping us out of our dilemma of a cancelled speaker. It was a most unusual talk, and I think we all learned a lot about some familiar as well as some unusual plants. I shall certainly be viewing plants like sorrel and dandelion with new interest, and consider how they may be eaten. (Chess Valley U3A - April 2025)
- Thank you so much for a really interesting talk this morning. I'm sure many of our members will visit, or re-visit, Capel Manor during the Summer and find it more enjoyable with the information you passed on - Viv Booth Verulam U3A
- "Thank you so much for your inspirational talk about your work – the audience were really impressed - and for helping people to recognise how they can use different tools to continue their own gardening if injury or infirmity strikes." Carole Wilcox - Cuffley Horticultural Society
- Another stimulating talk that made me and my fellow gardeners think. Anne does not talk - she imparts knowledge and involves her audience. I asked for a talk on Roses but never thought she would go back to the age of the dinosaur. I have invited her back knowing that whatever topic I choose as speaker's secretary Anne will deliver - Ida, Hitchen Horticultural Society
Talk to Hertford National Trust Group at Hertford Theatre.
Anne with Jonathan Kaye, Mayor of Ware at High Cross & Thunderidge WI