Category: Newsletter

  • 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…

  • 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. 

  • Newsletter April 2024

    Spring has arrived, our gardens are full of colour, the evenings are lighter and it’s still raining. But we will always find opportunities between the showers to do some gardening….

  • Newsletter March 2024

    We wondered if it would ever stop raining. The garden is waterlogged and the lawn full of moss but the snowdrops have been spectacular this year and Spring has arrived with the hellebores, daffodils and primroses. We always debate whether to continue having our Spring Show in April as in past years or to bring…

  • January Newsletter 2024

    It may be a little late but we, the Horticultural Society Committee, would like to wish all our members a very happy New Year. I somehow feel that we are floating into 2024 as it never seems to stop raining and there doesn’t seem to have been many opportunities to get into the garden. But…

  • November Newsletter 2023

    This year seems to have gone in a flash and here we are approaching the last meeting of the Society in 2023. There will be no meeting in December so the next meeting will be on Wednesday 10th January when we have Kelvin Mason talking to us about Gardening for Climate Change. Kelvin has worked for…