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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...
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...
Latest Hints & Tips
December Gardening Tips
Most leaves of deciduous trees have fallen by now and you tidy gardeners will have swept them up and started the leaf mould process – you cannot buy leaf mould. Beech hedges will retain their dead leaves until Spring. Oak trees will continue to lose leaves and you...
November Hints and Tips
After this year’s vagaries of temperature and rainfall, plants have become confused and some are flowering now when they should flower in spring; e.g. the apple blossom at RHS Wisley (not to mention witch hazel and irises in my garden). It is now worth considering the...
Hints and Tips for October 2020
October will probably bring the first frosts and they will precipitate colour change, leaf fall and the sound of blowers that will reverberate in the neighbourhood! So long as the leaves are disease-free, they can be collected, and will decay to form leaf...
September gardening advice
Autumn is early here this year. Leaves dropping, berries ripening and apples ready to pick in August. Although the apple crop is heavy this year, potatoes, beans and sweetcorn have not flourished for me in dry, hot, wet, cool fluctuating conditions. There are still...
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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