Herald - Issue 380

v THE HERALD - YOUR COMMUNITY MAGAZINE v 24th October 2019 • The HERALD • Page 59 Contact Nick 07825 662955 or 023 8017 3186 (office) • Local Domestic and Commercial Tree Surgeons • Hedging work • Tree reductions • Thinning • Tree dismantles • Arboricultural reports and Surveys • Fencing Free no obligation quotation, and free advice E: enquiries@langleyarb.com W: www.langleyarb.com | DOWN THE GARDEN PATH | For All Your Gardening Needs General Garden Maintenance Overgrown Gardens Cleared Existing Garden Makeovers Areas Re-designed and Re-planted Hard Features Created Garden Coaching Lawn Care and Turfing Fencing Erected and Repaired Contact Paul on 07794 122065 Christmas Party Hythe Flower Club is a very friendly club, open to men and women of all ages and to anyone with an interest in owers. ey meet on the second ursday of the month in the Hythe Parish Hall, just along from Hythe Marina. e meetings start at 7pm with ower arranging demonstrations starting at 7.30pm. Some months they enjoy a workshop where members can choose to have a go themselves with tuition along the way or simply to watch other members put together an arrangement. Enjoy a cup of tea and a biscuit with time to chat and mingle, this is usually followed by a ra e and if they’ve have had a demonstration, those arrangements will be ra ed o too. Visitors are charged just £6 per visit, go along, they’re sure you won’t be disappointed. eir next meeting on Thursday 14th November for their Christmas Party. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact helencharge@post.com Keen gardeners, often encouraged by ‘professional’ gardeners, fall into the trap of ‘putting the garden to bed’ in the autumn. By this they mean having a grand tidy up (nothing wrong with that in itself) and then turning their backs on the plot for the next six months. Take a look again and you may see the opposite that the gardening year actually begins in autumn. Buds are swelling like crazy on some plants. If you have any camellias, take a look now to see how fat their buds are already. Plants like foxgloves and forget-me- nots are producing wonderful basal growth ready for ower production next year. Home- made compost and the best soil improver you can get, leaf mould, is being spread on beds for the worms to begin pulling down into the soil to start the process of regeneration all over again. Gardens need not be boring during the winter. Consider the beauty of the skeleton structure of trees, the fantastic range of colours provided by willows and dogwoods, the owers of hellebores, witch hazels, daphnes, viburnums and other plants, the bulbs including winter aconites, snowdrops, dwarf iris. So, by all means clear away the debris into the compost bins to minimise accumulation of disease, cut down the spent herbaceous plants (unless they carry seed heads which the birds love), gather up the leaves to make leaf mould and sweep the paths to keep them tidy and safe. But don’t turn your back on the garden. Aim to make it a place of all-the-year-round interest. AGM and Gardeners Question Time Beaulieu Horticultural Society meet on Thurday 14th November at East Boldre Village Hall, from 2.30pm for their AGM followed by Gardeners Question Time. New members and visitors from all locations are very welcome. Annual subscription is £7 per person with no extra admission charges at meetings. A charge of £2 is made for visitors attending the talks. Bartley Horticultural Society’s next meeting will take place on Thursday 21st November from 7.30pm at Copythorne Parish Hall, for a talk by Carol Watson entitled ‘Wild ower Hotspots Of the World’. New members and visitors are always welcome. Visitors Fee apply. For full details 023 8081 2217. WILDFLOWER HOTSPOTS DON’T Put Your Garden to Bed!