The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree "Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall." Larry Wilde (1928-2023) Choosing a Christmas tree, for many people, signals the start of the festive season. Pagans, then Romans and eventually...
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The Plant Centre, Hound Green, Hook
The Plant Centre, Hound Green, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8LQ writes... Dear Church Crookham and Fleet Gardening Society members, We are reaching out to all plant hunters and horticultural enthusiasts. We would like to offer all members of gardening clubs and societies a...
Garden Society Summer Show 2024
Our Summer 2024 show schedule is published. The show will take place at the Memorial Hall, Church Crookham on August 17th 2024. Full list of categories, rules, hints and tips etc. are available in the pdf download. Download the schedule here (PDF). Liz Kirton writes:...
Successful CCFGSOC Fuchsia Talk
Alec Grant writes.. The Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society event on 20th May 2024 was an engaging talk by Carol Gubler, Little Brook Nursery, to which a visit is well worth it. You won’t have to wade your way through kitchen utensils, paintings and garden...
Dobies 2024 Catalogue Discounts
Members of Church Crookham and Fleet Garden Society are entitled to a discount of 50% off packet seeds and 15% off non-seed live products (potatoes, garlic, shallots, onions, plants, bulbs and fruit) from the 2024 Dobies catalogue. To receive discounts, member will...
Latest Hints & Tips
March 2023 Hints and Tips
2023 What a winter for frost! My greenhouse and garden have been devastated; many plants (old friends) have perished. Still, I should see it as an opportunity to plant different things. March is one of the busiest months for gardeners. The days...
February Hints and Tips
Welcome to the start of the growing year, when seeds can be sown, potatoes prepared by chitting and the first flowers: crocuses, daffodils, snowdrops, primroses, winter aconites and pulmonarias show some colour. February involves pruning many late flowering shrubs to...
January Gardening Tips
On the last day of December 2021, on a quick stroll round my garden, I found that even in the 'deep mid-winter' there are flowers to appreciate:- witch hazels, both red and yellow unfurling their petals, Iris unguicularis adding their beautiful blue flowers, winter...
October Hints and Tips
Here we are, at the beginning of Autumn, the roar of leaf blowers filling the air! I do hope those leaves will be composted to make leaf mould! Most of the harvesting is done: potatoes lifted and stored cool and dark in hessian sacks, apples stored...
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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