Page 52 • The HERALD • 7th March 2024 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SPECIALISTS v ✿ DOWN THE GARDEN PATH ✿ SPADEWORK Family Landscaping & Fencing Team ] Decking & Natural Sandstone Paving ] Patios ] Driveways ] Block Paving ] Turfing ] All Types of Domestic & Commercial Fencing ] Security Fencing Supplied & Fitted Tel: (023) 8089 4909 Mobile: 07703 566814 u Free Estimates u Fully Insured • All types of trees expertly felled, topped & pruned • Stump Grinding • Hedges pruned & trimmed • Lawns Laid • Fencing & garden work • Rubbish Clearance • Patios & drives jet-washed • Patios & Drives resurfaced or replaced Registerd Waste Carrier Licence CBDU374716 H Fully Insured H Evening: 01794 522092 Daytime Mobile: 07946 513633 Email: treefellers@gmx.com FIRST HALF HOUR FREE for gardening on production of this advertisment (Valid to 30th April 2024) • Patios • Decking • Turfing/Astro • Fencing/Gates • Outbuildings • All aspects of Gardening • Pergolas and all timber frame work • Sheds 07593 423276 • www.heronslandscaping.co.uk cameron@heronslandscaping.co.uk ✁ ✁ Smithwood Landscaping Professional Gardening & Landscaping • Garden Redesign • Astro Turf • Trees & Shrubs Carefully Pruned • Rockeries Designed • Fencing • Ground Cover • Seasonal Tidy Ups No Job Too Small as I am a Local Gardener Any advice over the phone is freely given Contact Gary (Master Landscaper) 07707 433194 NEW YEAR, NEW DELIGHTS FOR FORESTERS FLOWER CLUB! by Debbie Thorne, Foresters Flower Club On 1st February Carole Norman came to our club with her Demonstration titled ‘Surprise Surprise!’ Carole is a bundle of fun and had us all entranced with the beauty of her designs and the comedy of her stories as she created her arrangements. Her second design was spring! A wooden herb box was lined with wax paper and a block of oral foam was inserted. A relaxed, beautiful design was created using contorted willow, with catkins, as support for the spring owers. ese included mixed coloured tulips and purple clematis. A real tonic on a midwinter evening! Carole’s third creation was midwinter. A container was made from a bowl with shards of bark glued to it, giving a jagged tree trunk e ect. Euonymus was tucked in amongst the bark to ll gaps and moss to cover the oral foam at the end. A cool, snowy scene was created using white carnation blooms, agapanthus and eryngium dotted just above the euonymus. Beautiful and tranquil. Design number four was a mouth-watering peach and acidic green creation in an urn with a bowl secured to the top. To cover the bowl, Carole manipulated large, bright green fatsia leaves by threading their stalks back through the lower leaf. Various sizes, shapes, textures and shades of foliage were used throughout, including myrtle and pittosporum. Peach Avalanche roses and small green chrysanthemum blooms lit up the design. Carole’s nal arrangement was a double handled tropical basket. She had purchased a bunch which included palm leaves, variegated bamboo leaves, dracaena leaves- red and green, an ornamental pineapple and yellow gourds. She used these and mouth-watering orange heliconia to complete her tropical basket, scrumptious! 5 lucky winners from the ra e went home beaming and, as always, one person won a Guest Ticket to use in the next 3 months. Next meetings are: Thursday 7th March: AGM and Show Night ‘A Memorable Event’, Thursday 4th April: Demonstration Martina Coleman ‘Footlights and Clapper Boards’, Thursday 2nd May: in house Spring Promenade and refreshments. All meetings start at 7.30pm at Copythorne Parish Hall, SO40 2NZ. For more information please contact Debbie orne: 07769 830752. this as acceptable for special occasions and demonstrating. She feels that for ra e prizes it doesn’t seem acceptable to deconstruct an arrangement, created without foam, to give as a prize. e alternative being to increase the fee to the club in order to include the mechanics and container. However, she emphasised that arranging for ourselves, or gi s, using foam free methods is preferable and more environmentally friendly. Carole’s rst arrangement was a traditional triangle shape, using phormium leaves in dark green with a hint of red for height, elephant ear leaves and moss to cover the foam. Fatsia leaves were the base and beautifully placed sun owers made the vertical line. e di erent textures and re ections of light o the foliage complimented the sunshine yellow of the owers. A galvanised container added to the sunshine e ect. She used biodegradable floral foam and explained that she r e g a r d s Beaulieu Horticultural Society will meet on Thursday 7th March, 7.30pm, talk by Ray Broughton on ‘Vegetable and Herb Gardens’ at Beaulieu Village Hall. On Saturday 6th April Beaulieu Horticultural Society will be holding their Spring Show at East Boldre Village Hall, public viewing 2.15pm to 3.30pm. Membership is £10 per annum (no additional charge for members at talks) for membership details please contact Lynne Hubbard on: 01590 612408 or email: lynnehbd@aol.com Visitors are welcome to the talks for £2. Vegetable and Herb Gardens
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