Plants, Borders and Gardens
Sunday 29 November 2009
Timothy Walker kept a packed audience of Hardy Planters hanging on for dear life Read more
The Pond Owner’s Calendar
Linda Smith
Sunday 28 February 2010
Benenden Village Hall, 2.30pm map
Members’ lecture meeting. Guests are welcome to attend up to two meetings before becoming members.
A talk with slides for the ‘hands on gardener’, to show propagation and other tasks as well as highlights for each season.
Waterside Nurseries is a family run company based in Sharnford, Leicestershire operating since 1995.
In addition to the nursery, Linda Smith Read more
Snowdrop & Hellebore Extravaganza 2010
Sunday 14 February 2010
Goodnestone Park Gardens
Wingham, near Canterbury map
11am to 4pm
Entrance £5.00 (HPS members £4.00)
Senior citizens £4.50 Children under 16 £1.00
*Members bringing display material before 10.30am - free
Event open to the public.
With a talk by Val Bourne at 12.00noon
After the huge success of this event in 2009 we are looking forward to an even bigger and better Read more
Clematis armandii
Did you know that the very best time to prune Clematis armandii is immediately after flowering?
Have you been seduced by Clematis armandii with its wonderful perfume and beautiful white flowers so early in the year, only to be bewildered by its prodigious rate of growth? To keep it within bounds and encourage attractive new growth, which will flower next spring, prune it immediately after flowering, removing dead or damaged stems and cutting back the rest to their allotted space making sure to keep to green wood.
This advice comes from a very good source. Everett Leeds, a founder member of The British Clematis Society, gave a talk to Kent Group on herbaceous clematis but during question time the discussion widened to cover other types and this nuggett of information was passed on.
Fergus Garrett inspires audience
Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener at Great Dixter, kept a packed house enthralled at Benenden on Sunday 22 February as he explained how he and his staff keep the gardens looking so good throughout the year. Read more
Snowdrop & Hellebore Extravaganza - a great success!
The Snowdrop & Hellebore Extravaganza held at Goodnestone Park on Sunday 15 February 2009 was judged to be a great success.
Click on the thumbnails in the gallery below to see images taken at the event. Read more
After the snowdrops - celandines
by David Andrews
Ranunculus ficaria 'Aya'
In about a month’s time, the snowdrop season will be drawing to a close - white blobs to some, to others their subtle variations a source of endless fascination. But a new season will then begin for the connoisseurs of the lesser celandine who eagerly inspect their seedlings Read more
Winter into Spring
by Tim Ingram
Winter turning into spring is one of the most evocative and wonderful times in the garden. Some of the earliest flowers are the hellebores which begin to grow through milder spells in the height of winter, and can be had in flower from December right through to April or even May. Read more
Snowdrop mania - a very modern phenomenon
Snowdrop mania - healthy obsession or madness?
Leucoium bulbosum praecox minus - Timely flouring bulbous Violet
“The first of these bulbous Violets riseth out of the ground, with two small leaves flat and crested, of an overworne greene colour, betweene the which riseth up a small and tender stalke of two hands high; Read more
Confessions of a snowdrop addict
by Sue Clayton
‘The secret of being happy is being obsessed by something’ - David Bellamy Read more
