Herald - Issue 422

21st April 2022 • The HERALD • Page 53 v THE HERALD - Your Community Magazine v THE TREE & LANDSCAPE WIZARD All aspects of tree surgery, garden maintenance and landscaping undertaken Family run business for over 20 years No Job Too Big or Small Please call 07552 977731 for a Free Quotation ❀ Grass cutting ❀ Strimming ❀ Edging ❀ Weeding ❀ Pruning ❀ Hedge tidy ❀ Weed spraying ❀ Flower planting Fully insured - Clean DBS - PA1/PA6 spray licence -Registered waste licence 07340 633272 info@ajsgardenmaintenance.co.uk | DOWN THE GARDEN PATH | RYAN FENCING Quality Fencing & Gates 07769 706516 • 023 8084 1203 www.ryan-fencing.co.uk • Find us on Facebook All aspects of Gardening carried out by reliable gardener a Grass Cutting a Hedge Cutting a Border Maintenance, Pruning, Weeding a Treating of Fencing/Trellis/Outbuildings a Pressure Washing of Patios/Decking The Potty Gardener Contact Kev on 07585 115569 or 023 8084 8638 Send your local news to The Editor, The Herald, 2 High Street, Hythe SO45 6AH The Joy of Scented Flowers: Let’s Get Thinking! by Debbie Thorne, Foresters Flower Club As the days lengthen and warm we aim to spend more time in our gardens, whether to relax, entertain, or tinker with our garden space. If you are like me and love owers, and enjoying a gorgeous scent near a rest area is a “yes please” (even if you only venture out for a cuppa)! So how about picking a sunny, sheltered area and start to design? We can try and have a jug/vase of scented owers on the table, or if we only have a “back yard”, as my Grandad did, we can grow owers in pots. My Grandad loved owers and he grew abundant pots of geraniums. e smell of geraniums (not always liked) are pure nostalgia and take me straight back to happy childhood memories. We should try to buy our owers in season. is helps support our UK nurseries and orists and we could also grow our own if at all possible. e rst step would be to consider when you would like your scented owers, then where. You can research which scented owers appear during which seasons and if they would be happy in the position you would like (shade/sun/North/South etc/sheltered/windy etc) and soil type (dry/boggy/acid/alkaline etc). en research when they should be planted. Here are examples of owers through the seasons: Spring: da odils, hyacinths, lily-of-the-valley, violet, lilac, magnolia, daphne and wisteria. Summer: roses – all colours, climbers and bush, double owers or single, clusters or stems. Check for scent and then which type you would like carnations, lilies, lavender, freesia, jasmines, honeysuckle, sweet peas and herbs. Autumn: a sparse season, some summer owers will continue if mild and some heather are scented. I suppose Of course our lovely garden centres will have your chosen plants and orists will have your chosen owers to enjoy exactly when you require. Let’s hope the weather will be kind and that we can spend some dreamy moments tuning into nature and enjoying wonderful scents at the same time! Foresters Flower Clubs next meetings at Copythorne Parish Hall, SO40 2NZ, 7.30pm are: 5th May - Presentation by Julia Baker ‘A history of Furzey Gardens’ AND Show Night! Please bring your ‘Celebration’ arrangements to help raise money for charities. ere will be a plant sale too. 26th May - nature is telling us to start cosying up inside. Winter: a time to pick and bring inside to enjoy e.g. Christmas box (sarcococca), an intense fragrance and white owers. ere is also winter jasmine, yellow perfumed owers. If you are really organised, you can research your scented spring bulbs and ‘bring them on’early indoors to enjoy! Daffodils are perfect for a spring arrangement Visit to Furzey Gardens: £12.50 including cream tea and tour. For more information call: Debbie Thorne: 07769 830752. Copthorne Nursery Open Days Copthorne Nursery are busy getting ready for their May open days taking place on Wednesday 11th May and Sunday 15th May from 10.30am to 4pm at the Nursery in Fawley on Copthorne Road, SO45 1DP. is year as well as the usual bedding plants, the team are growing a range of annuals for cut flowers, large banana plants, stunning ferns and unusual perennials that will be on sale at the open days. Refreshments will also be available on the day. Copthorne Nursery is part of Romsey and Waterside Day Services. It supports adults with learning disabilities develop horticultural skills, increase their independence and o ers meaningful activities that build con dence and a sense of achievement and worth. For more information email: copthornenursery@ gmail.com or call: 023 8089 4998. Copthorne Nursery