3rd April 2025 • The HERALD • Page 55 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SPECIALISTS 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 • HEDGE CUTTING • FENCING • PATIOS • TURFING • GARDEN CLEARANCES & MORE For a FREE quotation please call 023 8122 4550 or 07548 355262 AUTUMN LEAF GARDEN WORKS Telephone Richard 023 8084 9637 | Grass Cutting | Edges Trimmed | Hedge Trimming | PRESSURE WASHING OF DECKS, PATIOS & DRIVES | FENCE & SHEDS PAINTED QuickSmart Garden Services Professional & Reliable DOWN THE GARDEN PATH for local charities - “Spring Swish Party” (2-4pm) and 1st May: Outing and cream tea. Our treasurer has kindly agreed to organise an outing to the Flower Festival at Wisley at the beginning of September. All meetings at Copythorne Parish Hall, SO40 2NZ, 7.30pm. For more information call Debbie orne on: 07769 830752. Foresters Flower Club Chairlady Marion Catt Continued from page 54 An AGM Like No Other! AURICULAS Woodlands Gardening Club meets most second Tuesdays of the year starting at 7.30pm at Netley Marsh Community Hall, Woodlands Road, SO40 7GE. ey are a fun, welcoming club. You don’t need to be a gardening expert to attend, just have an interest in gardens. ey have a wide range of guest speakers talking on gardening topics and other areas of interest at each indoor meeting. Other activities include garden visits, an annual plant sale in May – this year on Saturday 17th May, 2pm-4pm, at Netley Marsh Community Hall - a summer BBQ and Christmas party. At the next meeting on 8th April Julie Robson of the National Auricula and Primrose Society Southern is giving a talk on her specialism, auriculas. Annual membership is £12, or come as a guest for £2.50 per meeting. Chairman Susanna Zardis: 023 80292953, Treasurer June Gross: 07493 303530 Secretary Kate Crosse: 07833 696566. Designing and Planting a Small Garden Beaulieu and District Gardening Club’s (previously known as Beaulieu Horticultural Society) next meeting takes place on Thursday 24th April, 7.30pm, at Beaulieu Village Hall, for a talk by Andy McIndoe titled ‘Designing and Planting a Small Garden’. On Saturday 24th May they will be holding a Plant Sale from 2pm-4pm at School Fields Hall in East Boldre. Membership is £10 per annum. Membership secretary Lynne Hubbard 01590 612408. Visitors welcome to talks £4. Lepe House Gardens Open for Charity Lepe House Gardens (SO45 1AD) will be open for charity under the National Garden Scheme on 13th April, 1pm–5pm. Entry is £10 for adults, free for children. Light refreshments are included in the ticket price. is 12 acre spring woodland garden was laid out in 1893. An embarkation point for D-Day, the lighthouse in the garden now marks the entrance to the Beaulieu River. Distinct areas include a walled garden with camellias, coastal walk overlooking the Solent, woodland with mature magnolias and rhododendrons, arboretum with dri s of spring bulbs, wildlife ponds plus formal areas with a wishing well. BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair Tickets are still available for the BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair in Beaulieu from 2nd – 4th May. is year’s fair will feature high-quality nurseries with displays and plants for sale, an inspirational collection of Beautiful Borders, 1-to-1 expert gardening advice and a range of gardening exhibitors to shop from. Visitors will also be able to enjoy specialist and seasonal fayre to taste and buy at the BBC Good Food Market. All this plus toe-tapping live entertainment from the bandstand and mouth-watering delights from a handpicked selection of independent street food vendors. For more information or to book tickets please visit: bbcgardenersworldlive.com/spring-fair Container Planting Bartley Horticultural Society’s next meeting is on Thursday 12th April for a practical evening titled ‘Container Planting’, followed on Thursday 15th May for a a talk by Glenn Duggan titled ‘Growing Roses’. On Saturday 3rd May they will be holding a Plant Sale. Meetings take place on the third Thursday of the month at Copythorne Parish Hall, Pollards Moor Road, Copythorne SO40 2NW at 7.30pm. New members and visitors are always welcome. Visitor’s fee applies. For more information you can write to them at: Mavis Cottage, Pollards Moor Road, Copythorne, SO40 2NZ, call: 07789 352505 or visit their website: www.bartleyhs. org.uk
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