The second Open Garden of this summer was Patricia Elkington’s well established (and well known) garden on the 5th July. This garden is full of interesting and unusual hardy plants which Patricia has collected over the years. The well signed tour of the afternoon took you through the raised garden, into the orchard and on…

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We had a very successful first Open Garden Visit of the Year last weekend when David and Valerie opened up their garden for members of the Hampshire Hardy Plant Society. An amazing garden that is only 4 years old with a herbaceous border which looks well established and some creative gravel plantings near the house.…

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Members Only Open Garden Sunday 5th July – Patricia Elkington Only by Appointment –  Please Book a Timeslot to Attend Following the successful opening of Valerie and David Menzies’ wonderful garden last weekend we will use the same booking system whereby visitors are given an arrival timeslot.  Time in the garden is not limited and…

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Another tour of Dawn’s Garden with some late spring and early summer flowers. There has never been so many flowers on the Zantedeschia before. Over 25 blooming at the same time. The last of  the Wisteria (a floribunda)  is just coming to an end but both this and the W. sinensis (featured last month) have…

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Zoom Meetings Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have had no meetings since way back in February! We would like to try and bring as many of our members together in some Zoom Meeting. As a first trial of this popular video-conferencing we will be having a Virtual Tour of Martin Ward’s garden. To help…

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Friday 12th June 6:30 pm We are going to do something new! Martin Ward is preparing a virtual tour of his garden which was going to be an NGS Open Garden in June. This tour will be shown on Zoom and is open to anyone from Hampshire Hardy Plant Group who would like to attend.…

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Is this a record for a Zantedeschia? Some plants seemed to have thrived over the wet warm winter and others are still struggling in water-logged soil. Dawn’s magnificent Zantedeschia has 25 flowers fully out and 5 just about to unfurl. Dawns challenge is “Can anyone beat the number of flowers out on her Zantedeschia at…

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Eighty gardens in Hampshire were going to open in 2020 as part of the  NGS Open Gardens Scheme. Due to the COVID-19 none of these gardens are going to open. This is the latest information on the Gardens in Hampshire  The NGS has a number of Virtual Garden Tours that you may like to look…

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