Sir Harold Hillier Gardens
The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens is an arboretum comprising 72 hectares (720,000 sq metres) accommodating over 42,000 trees and shrubs in about 12,000 taxa, notably a collection of oaks, camellia, magnolia and rhododendron. The Gardens are located 5 km northeast of the...
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Hints and Tips for July – August 2022
Liz Kirton writes: Gardening is a hobby that can bring great joy! In June I have seen a wonderful display of irises, rambling roses and poppies – beautiful! BUT I have been much saddened by disease in the onion bed and box moth destroying my 20 year old box hedges....
The Society’s Summer Show is on 20th August
I hope that you will join us next Saturday for the show. Members, please have a go, and enter some of the classes View or download show schedule. View or download show poster2022.
Keep the society going!
Dear Members, On May 9th our chairman (Alec) has called a committee meeting during which the winding up of the society by the end of September will be discussed. The reason is that we have not recruited any new committee members. We need a new chairman, treasurer,...
March Hints and Tips
Hints and Tips for gardeners in March 2022.
March is one of the busiest months for gardeners. The days are getting longer and the soil starts to warm, but you still have to watch out for frosts. Underground, the infra-red light that penetrates below the surface triggers growth and germination.
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September 2021 Gardening Tips
After 2020's bumper harvest of apples, I have a very meagre crop this year, but the pears are looking hopeful. The seasons have been later this year: wind and rain have taken a toll. The rain has made hoeing weeds useless and, as a result, I have been hand weeding –...
June Gardening Hints and Tips
We have had a late Spring this year (2021), with drought and frost holding plants back. I note that last year, at this time, I remarked on the good set of apples and pears; whereas, this year, the apple blossom is barely out yet. I did spot a woodpecker (spotted)...
April Gardening Tips
We wait, with keen anticipation, through January and February, the blooming of daffodils, the signals of Spring. First, the dwarf varieties like Narcissus jonquilla and bulbocodium and then the full-sized plants. All too soon, by April, we are dead- heading spent...
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...
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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