Wisley Visit 2024
A popular annual event for members is a visit to Wisley.This trip normally free for paid up Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society members. Cost of entry for non members is currently £18.50 for adults and £8.25 for children so it's worth joining the society, which...
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February Gardening Tips
Welcome to the start of the growing year, when seeds can be sown, potatoes prepared by chitting and the first flowers: daffodils, snowdrops, primroses, winter aconites and pulmonarias show some colour. February involves pruning many late flowering shrubs to encourage...
The Beginning of the Church Crookham Garden Society
We were contacted by Jackie Richardson, who had come across our website when researching on the internet and she kindly told us of her father, Georg Ballard, having started the Society in 1954. Here is Jackie's History of the Church Crookham Garden Society (pdf) Maybe...
Awarding the 2020 Banksian Medal
Dear Members, Since you were deprived of the opportunity to compete for most points in the Summer Show to win the Banksian Medal 2020. The RHS suggests that it should be awarded to someone who has gone 'above and beyond' to help the Church Crookham Garden Society...
Trading shed update
June 2020 : Alec Grant writes : Dear Members I hope you and your families are all well and, if so, enjoying the summer weather. This is becoming a weekly update as, due to the Covid restrictions, together with the vulnerability of our shed teams and members, we are do...
Latest Hints & Tips
April hints and tips
Products available from the trading shed when it opens are in green font. Here I am in the middle of March, writing this advice, and wondering if we shall ever have any warm dry weather. However, I can see buds fattening on azaleas and magnolias and the earliest...
Gardening Tips for March
Items obtainable from our trading shed are highlighted. We have reached March and spring flowers are at their stunning best to cheer us through, perhaps, the busiest part of the gardening year. Jobs to do All beds need a mulch both to retain moisture and to suppress...
Gardening Hints and Tips February 2020
by Liz Kirton. Welcome to the start of the growing year, when seeds can be sown, potatoes prepared by chitting and the first flowers: daffodils, snowdrops, primroses, winter aconites and pulmonarias show some colour. February involves pruning many late flowering...
December and January Gardening
“In the bleak midwinter….ground as hard as iron, water like a stone”. This is a difficult time for plants: when water freezes in the ground they cannot replace water lost from the leaves. They have adapted by losing their leaves and becoming dormant, or by...
Welcome to Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society
A vibrant garden society active in Fleet and Church Crookham, Hampshire. We hold several annual events and shows and run a comprehensively stocked stores hut with discounts for members.
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