5th October 2023 • The HERALD • Page 53 v GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH THE HERALD v RYAN FENCING Quality Fencing & Gates 07769 706516 • 023 8084 1203 www.ryan-fencing.co.uk • Find us on Facebook A J GLEESON BUILDING & GROUNDWORK DRIVEWAYS EXTENSIONS BRICKWORK GROUNDWORK BLOCK PAVING Colours & Designs to suit your requirements Local Work Available to View CALL FOR A FREE QUOTATION New Forest & Southampton 023 8084 4180 Mobile: 07770 771475 Bramdene, Main Road, Dibden, Southampton ✿ DOWN THE GARDEN PATH ✿ VIENNA THE WALTZ CITY by Debbie Thorne, Foresters Flower Club As always, Lyn had created a wonderful ra e and many lucky ladies went home with prizes. e outing to Wisley on the following day was a great success and coach storage was lled with beautiful plants. A big thank you to Sheila for organising and Marion for returning from her holiday early to supervise the trip! Next meeting is 5th October: In-House Workshop (bring and do), max 3 designs, max 3 owers and unlimited foliage. 24th October: SWISH 2-4pm. (bring 3 items of good quality clothing/accessories, £5 entry, take-home 3 ‘new items’ hot drink and cake included). 2nd November: Presentation by Martin Young. ‘Autumn and Winter Colour’. Plant sale from Martin’s nursery. All meetings are held at Copythorne Parish Hall, Pollards Moor Road, Copythorne, SO40 2NZ at 7.30 pm. For more details please contact Debbie orne: (07769) 830752. On the 7th of September the theme for our meeting was more music and friendships. We were treated to a presentation from Chris Legrande about Vienna, its architecture and musical delights. Chris played popular classical music by Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss Senior to accompany the slides. Initially, until they went their separate ways, they composed a waltz per day. Chris played many well-known musical pieces by Strauss Senior and Junior (all Stauss Snr’s children were actively discouraged from music as they were growing up). Johann Strauss Junior went on to play at the infamous Vienna Opera House, and his music changed from waltz to a more operetta style. Edward Stauss developed a di erent style of music and mainly played in churches. Later Joseph Haydon and Wolfgang Mozart initially played voluntarily at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. Mozart became director of music there. Chris highlighted the many famous, historic, musical links to the city with the most beautiful and well-known classical music. A er the presentation, Nikki and her team of refreshment ladies provided us with hot drinks, homemade Viennese whirls (by Nikki), and apple strudel – truly scrumptious! BLACKFIELD FLOWER CLUB Members were pleased to be back a er the summer break and welcomed Claire DeLemonge, a newly quali ed Wessex and Jersey demonstrator from Hampshire. e title of her demonstration was ‘Food Glorious Food’. e rst arrangement featured the base of a pizza box. Laurel provided the outline before adding three columns of rosemary to represent the pencil trees in Italy. Green Anatasia chrysanthemums were added to the rst column, white Avalanche roses to the second and red germinis to the third to interpret the Italian ag. Gold small chrysanthemums were used for the cheese. A grey urn was used for a triangle arrangement depicting a fruit crumble. Ivy and ruscus were inserted before adding green small chrysanthemums, dark red carnations, Picasso calla lilies (white with a purple centre), apples on sticks and dried alliums to represent the crumble. Jelly came next with an arrangement in a preserving jar. Fatsia and aspidistra leaves were added together with mauve and purple Santini chrysanthemums, white lisianthus and pink and white germinis. A second arrangement was placed on a white stand to complete this design. e last arrangement interpreted a lemon cake. Lemons and limes had been placed in a preserving jar with a whisk attached. Ruscus was added. White stocks, white Avalanche roses, yellow spray roses and some leather leaf fern were inserted in the jar. An Oasis pad was used for the cake with the same owers plus some gypsophila. A cup and saucer completed this design. At the end of the demonstration Mary Go , Life President, was presented with a gi from the Club as she will shortly be moving to Sussex. Mary has been a valuable member of the club for 33 years serving on the committee as vice chairman and chairman. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 2pm and take place at the Royal British Legion Club, Exbury Road, Black eld, SO45 1XD. Visitors welcome, please contact Jan Gordon on 023 8084 4835 for more details.
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