Page 64 • The HERALD • 20th November 2025 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SPECIALISTS v • HEDGE CUTTING • FENCING • PATIOS • TURFING • GARDEN CLEARANCES & MORE For a FREE quotation please call 023 8122 4550 or 07548 355262 AUTUMN LEAF GARDEN WORKS DOWN THE GARDEN PATH Smithwood Landscaping Professional Gardening & Landscaping • Seasonal Tidy Ups • Garden Redesign • Fencing • Trees & Shrubs Carefully Pruned • Astro Turf • Rockeries Designed • Ground Cover No Job Too Small as I am a Local Gardener Any advice over the phone is freely given Contact Gary (Master Landscaper) 07707 433194 BLACKFIELD FLOWER CLUB e members of Black eld Flower Club welcomed Carole Stables, area demonstrator, to their October meeting with a demonstration entitled ‘As if by Magic’. e rst design featured a rectangular box. Orange birch twigs, dried rhamnus, skimmia and myrtle provided the outline before adding yellow dahlias, larch cones and small arti cial pumpkins on sticks. A large tall bunch of ting ting tied together was the basis for this foam free design. Glycerined rhamnus, dried verbena and wheat added to complete this unusual dried design. Phoenix palms, fatsia, griselinia, dracaena and aucuba japonica provided the outline for this design before adding lime green carnations, yellow dahlias and small yellow owers. Green bamboo was added to complete this design. A very large pink rattan ring was the inspiration for this design. Five posies were constructed using fatsia and palm leaves and single stems of pink hydrangeas. e posies were attached to the rattan ring and a large Strictly Come Dancing silver ball was placed in the centre of the ring. e last design featured a top hat. An outline was created using eucalyptus before red Naomi roses were added together with pretty pink spray roses and some small red berries. A curved stand was used to display the top hat and two more similar arrangements which completed this design. Meetings take place on the second Tuesday of the month, 2pm at the Royal British Legion Club, Exbury Road, Black eld, SO45 1XD – visitors welcome, please call Jan Gordon on: 023 8084 4835 for more details. Black eld Flower Club’s next meeting will take place on Tuesday 9th December for Christmas with Graham King. Demonstrator Carole Stables Less Work, More Colour Bartley Horticultural Society’s next meeting is on on Thursday 20th November for a talk by Gillian Taylor ‘Less Work, More Colour’. Followed on Thursday 18th December for their Christmas Social. 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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