Category: 2024

  • Newsletter – November 2025

    We are convinced that there are more leaves to clear this year or is it that as we get older it becomes more of a burden. But in my garden we are grateful that there seems to be no beech mast which for us is certainly a blessing. Is this climate change I wonder.  We…

  • Newsletter – November 2024

    This will be the last newsletter for 2024 as we don’t have a meeting in December so our next meeting will be on 8th January when we have Rachel Annette telling us all about happy honeybees. I cannot believe that here we are in November and yet there is still a lot of colour in…

  • Newsletter – October 2024

    I am writing this newsletter on the most beautiful sunny day and can’t help thinking what a difference the sun makes to our mood and willingness to tackle garden chores. A few more days like this would be most welcome. Our Show review meeting was very positive. I believe the Show was very nearly cancelled…

  • Trip to Wisley 2024

    Thirty-two society members and friends went, by coach, to RHS Wisley on Wednesday 25th of September ….

  • Newsletter August 2024

    Who can forget last week’s thunderstorm when Winchester High Street was flooded and submerged cars had to be rescued by the fire service?  Some of the clay soil from the Sun Lane development ended up in Nursery Road. I hope you were not affected. One of our gutters was overwhelmed and we had a Niagara…

  • Newsletter September 2024

    As I write this month’s newsletter we are in the middle of a heat wave and enjoying a mini summer. It was such a relief that the weather was good for this year’s Alresford Show which I’m told by the organisers was a big success….

  • Newsletter July 2024

    We have passed mid summer’s day and are still waiting for some proper summer weather. I’m sure the bees are too as I heard recently that a beekeeper has had to feed his bees as pollen is in short supply. So we were specially lucky on Saturday 29th June when many of our members gathered…

  • Newsletter June 2024

    April and May have apparently set records for being the warmest months in the UK for some years but while the temperature and rain might have suited the shrubs in our gardens, I know that we gardeners would all benefit from seeing more sunshine. But hope springs eternal. 

  • Alresford Horticultural Show Schedule 2024

  • SPRING SHOW 10th April 2024