July and August 2023 Hints and tips
As I write this in June, my garden is very dry. No rain for weeks. Hoeing is a sure way to make it rain! – that, and cleaning the windows! Still, the herbaceous border should be at its best – take a record of which plants need to be divided in the Autumn. Currants,...
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The Beginning of the Church Crookham Garden Society
We were contacted by Jackie Richardson, who had come across our website when researching on the internet and she kindly told us of her father, Georg Ballard, having started the Society in 1954. Here is Jackie's History of the Church Crookham Garden Society (pdf) Maybe...
Awarding the 2020 Banksian Medal
Dear Members, Since you were deprived of the opportunity to compete for most points in the Summer Show to win the Banksian Medal 2020. The RHS suggests that it should be awarded to someone who has gone 'above and beyond' to help the Church Crookham Garden Society...
Trading shed update
June 2020 : Alec Grant writes : Dear Members I hope you and your families are all well and, if so, enjoying the summer weather. This is becoming a weekly update as, due to the Covid restrictions, together with the vulnerability of our shed teams and members, we are do...
Shed opening from 20th June 2020
June 2020 I trust that you and families remain well and staying safe in these difficult times. We are delighted to announce that the trading shed will re-open Saturday 20th June at 10:00 for members by appointment only. In order to accommodate the Covid-19 social...
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Gardening Hints and Tips February 2020
by Liz Kirton. 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...
December and January Gardening
“In the bleak midwinter….ground as hard as iron, water like a stone”. This is a difficult time for plants: when water freezes in the ground they cannot replace water lost from the leaves. They have adapted by losing their leaves and becoming dormant, or by...
September gardening
It has been a very changeable Summer weather-wise, but crops, on the whole, have been early to ripen and reasonably heavy in my patch. Summer flowers have put on a wonderful show and if you keep dead-heading, will go on for a few weeks more. Day lilies in my garden...
Gardening in May
29th April – 5th 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,...
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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