The Council waters all the planters but it is up to us, the Gardening Club, to keep all of them weed and rubbish free and to regularly dead head the plants. We actually have a planter of our own near the Spar in East St with thanks to Gemma’s Florists for supplying the Gazanias at cost. A small group, equipped with gloves and hand tools, meets on a Sunday and, in a comparatively short time, walks round town giving the[…]
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The Ladies of Hinton Ampner ‘Constable’ skies of bright blue and towering cloud hovered over the lush May foliage on our journey east to the National Trust Neo Georgian manor house with prospects far and wide across the rolling Hampshire countryside. Given a Victorian gothic update in 1865, with few facilities, in 1936 John Dutton, 8th Lord Sherborne, envisaged a return to its Georgian roots and again after WWII, redecoration was required which took fifteen years then followed by a[…]
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It was a perfect spring day on 25th April 2022 for travelling through Dorset to Dartmoor and Devon. Woodlands with fresh new leaves, and passing through small villages, farmland with lambs in the fields, then, finally arriving at the last castle to be built in England – Castle Drogo. It was built in 1910 for Julius Drewe on a remote Dartmoor hillside. The architect Edward Lutyens created an imaginative, romantic, and historic castle for the Drewe family. The Drewe descendants[…]
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The club’s first show since September 2019 was a great success with over 260 entries across the range of spring flowers, herbs, artworks, preserves and cakes. As our club President, Monique Pasche said “It is brilliant to be back and to see the fantastic work everyone has been doing in their gardens and kitchens.” Although it was late in the season, the six different classes of daffodils show-cased the diversity of the form, size, and colour in this flower which[…]
Read moreThe Melplash Horticultural Society are delighted to open entries for their 2022 Garden & Allotment competition. Judging will take place on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th June and the judges this year are Tim and Sibyl Gale (Large Garden and Overall competition winners in 2021) and Jackie Seogalutze, a member of the Horticulture committee. The competition is open to all gardens and allotments located within 12 miles of Melplash Church. The competition is free to enter and the only stipulation[…]
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A group of us enjoyed the spring sunshine in our first visit of the year to Forde Abbey. Swathes of crocuses and daffodils naturalised in the grass enlivened the lawns in front of the Abbey while in the woodland arboretum several magnificent Magnolias, particularly M. sprengeri impressed with their huge pink flowers. Another attractive seasonal element was a tapestry of blue anemones and cyclamen growing out of beech mast. As ever the Centenary fountain drew visitors at midday to view[…]
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I hope you are all well and looking forward to getting stuck into planning visits and planting your gardens. Given what we have all been though over the last couple of years it is heart-warming to see so many groups return and now starting to book visits and shows. Don’t forget, if you need insurance and haven’t ordered it yet please contact rhsgroups@sports-insure.co.uk who will be able to set it up for you ready for the show season and all[…]
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