1st June 2023 • The HERALD • Page 55 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SPECIALISTS v ✿ DOWN THE GARDEN PATH ✿ 07879 552227 www.crowngardensandlandscapes.co.uk info@crowngardensandlandscapes.co.uk A family run business with over 20 years experience. Our teams of professional, friendly and reliable Gardeners and Landscapers are passionate about gardening and landscaping to very high standards of presentation and quality workmanship. Garden Maintenance Leaf Clearance Summer Tidy Up Hedges Borders Weeds Pressure Washing Landscaping Design Patios Artificial Lawns Decking Fencing Garden Repairs Your specialist Landscape and Garden Maintenance service, based in Hythe. Here to support the design, creation and maintenance of your perfect and personal outdoor space. RYAN FENCING Quality Fencing & Gates 07769 706516 • 023 8084 1203 www.ryan-fencing.co.uk • Find us on Facebook INSPIRATION FROM NORWAY by Debbie Thorne, Foresters Flower Club You might think it’s strange that I am not reporting on Foresters Flower Club, but we couldn’t have our May meeting due to local elections being held at our venue. I had a month’s motorhome trip to Norway planned – biggest adventure we have ever undertaken, so I thought I would see if I could be inspired by the Norwegians! We le on 30th April to return on 30th May! Spring is yet to bloom as I write this. ere are sunny spots with da odils, tulips, grape hyacinths, and ancient wood anemones, mainly white (such ancient forest landscape). Adorning shops and peoples’ front doors are pots with arrangements of plants and spring blooms within them. We saw tall ceramic pots with narcissi and grape hyacinth plants and pussy willow stems centrally. Some planters were shallow, galvanised tubs with a central island of da odils, standing proudly, surrounded by moss. Others used smooth, weathered branches dotted in the centre, with tulips and smaller da odils growing around and amongst them. ey all looked really pretty and welcoming. I noticed that the towns contained grassy areas within which were collections of plants that will ower from spring to autumn - e.g. da odils, tulips, cherry blossoms and fresh red shoots of many, many rose varieties in the form of bush/ standard and climbing. ese would certainly brighten anyone’s day. Besides the towns and cities are the absolutely breath-taking scenery of nature: crystal blue skies, teal coloured ords, dark green forests and islands within blue rivers, interspersed with lime green sprouting deciduous trees, lush green grass, grey rocks and frothy white waterfalls owing from snow topped mountains! e tranquillity of nature’s colour palette being second to none! All this beauty, colour palette and ideas could be replicated within our homes, or gardens, throughout the year. All our meetings are held at 7.30pm, Copythorne Parish Hall, Copythorne, SO40 2NZ. Next meetings are: Thursday 1st June - Demonstration ‘Fish Go Deep’ by Jennifer ompson, Thursday 6th July - Our Golden Anniversary Celebrations! All are welcome! Plus Demonstration ‘Golden Oldies’by M&M. For more information call Debbie orne: 07769 830752. Dibden Purlieu, Hythe and District Horticulture Society are pleased to announce the date of the next Horticulture and Cra Show on Saturday 29th July. is event was started in 1904 and has been a popular event in the local calendar since then. Only WWI, WWII and the Covid pandemic have prevented it happening. Every year, cups are awarded to worthy winners in many di erent categories. A new committee is now running the show and would like to know some of the history to the names behind those cups especially when it is a memorial cup. It would also be good to know why the cup was being awarded in that class of the show and display this by the Cup on the day of the show. e cups are as follows: Vegetables: e Collop Cup, Carpenter Cup, Cyril Topp Memorial Shield. Flowers: e McLeod Cup, Linda Memorial Cup, Barber Cup, Pocock Vase, Wilson Cup. Fruit: e Fred Nutbeam Cup. Cookery: e Frank Blunden Memorial Cup, Halstead Cup. Floral Decoration: e A.M. Du Cup. Photography: the Musselwhite Memorial Cup. If you have any information that will help them please email: hytheanddibdenpurlieushow@gmail.com or call: 023 8084 3576. If you would like a show catalogue they are now available from e Herald O ce, Hythe Library, the Council O ces at e Grove and St Andrew’s Churh in Dibden Purlieu. Your Local Horticulture Society Needs Your Help! Lawrence (Before and After Arabia) Black eld Gardening Clubs next meeting will be on Tuesday 13th June for a talk by Colin van Ge en titled ‘Lawrence (Before and A er Arabia)’. All meetings take place on the second Tuesday in the month and start at 7.30pm at Good Shepherd Church, off Roewood Road, Holbury SO45 2JP. ey are really looking forward to seeing members and visitors again (visitors £2). Enquiries please call: 023 8024 3795.
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