Wisley Visit 2024
A popular annual event for members is a visit to Wisley.This trip normally free for paid up Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society members. Cost of entry for non members is currently £18.50 for adults and £8.25 for children so it's worth joining the society, which...
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July 2021 gardening tips
As I write this, in June, my garden is about three weeks behind how it was last year. The weather is beyond prediction for the next two months. If it turns hot and dry, then stop mowing but keep hoeing. Hoeing is a sure way to make it rain! – that, and...
April Gardening Tips
We wait, with keen anticipation, through January and February, the blooming of daffodils, the signals of Spring. First, the dwarf varieties like Narcissus jonquilla and bulbocodium and then the full-sized plants. All too soon, by April, we are dead- heading spent...
This Year’s Events
Sadly, the 2021 AGM and quiz scheduled for the 26th February cannot go ahead 'in the flesh', but we are holding a 'Zoom' videoconference AGM on 26th Feb 7.30pm. If you are interested in joining in, please let Liz Kirton know and you will be sent the joining online...
February Gardening Tips
Welcome to the start of the growing year, when seeds can be sown, potatoes prepared by chitting and the first flowers: daffodils, snowdrops, primroses, winter aconites and pulmonarias show some colour. February involves pruning many late flowering shrubs to encourage...
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June gardening Tips
Talk about blowing hot and cold, wet and dry! This Spring has been so changeable, that it has made planning crops or splitting clumps of perennials very difficult to do successfully. The late frost caught my beans and potatoes, to my dismay. In spite of last Summer’s...
May gardening tips
27th April – 3rd May is National Gardening Week There is nothing more rewarding to most gardeners than to see healthy, vigorous plants in their garden. BUT there are some plants that thrive too well and start to ‘take over’. In my garden, primroses have been a joy,...
April hints and tips
Products available from the trading shed when it opens are in green font. Here I am in the middle of March, writing this advice, and wondering if we shall ever have any warm dry weather. However, I can see buds fattening on azaleas and magnolias and the earliest...
Gardening Tips for March
Items obtainable from our trading shed are highlighted. We have reached March and spring flowers are at their stunning best to cheer us through, perhaps, the busiest part of the gardening year. Jobs to do All beds need a mulch both to retain moisture and to suppress...
Welcome to Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society
A vibrant garden society active in Fleet and Church Crookham, Hampshire. We hold several annual events and shows and run a comprehensively stocked stores hut with discounts for members.
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