28th March 2024 • The HERALD • Page 53 v GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH THE HERALD v ✿ DOWN THE GARDEN PATH ✿ RYAN FENCING Quality Fencing & Gates 07769 706516 • 023 8084 1203 www.ryan-fencing.co.uk • Find us on Facebook A J GLEESON BUILDING & GROUNDWORK DRIVEWAYS EXTENSIONS BRICKWORK GROUNDWORK BLOCK PAVING Colours & Designs to suit your requirements Local Work Available to View CALL FOR A FREE QUOTATION New Forest & Southampton 023 8084 4180 Mobile: 07770 771475 Bramdene, Main Road, Dibden, Southampton Telephone Richard 023 8084 9637 | Grass Cutting | Edges Trimmed | Hedge Trimming | PRESSURE WASHING OF DECKS, PATIOS & DRIVES | FENCE & SHEDS PAINTED QuickSmart Garden Services Professional & Reliable How to Improve your Garden Design Beaulieu Horticultural Society will be holding their Spring Show on Saturday 6th April at East Boldre Village Hall, public viewing 2.15pm to 3.30pm eir next meeting is on Tuesday 23rd April, 7.30pm, a talk by Janette Merilion on ‘How to improve your garden design’ at East Boldre Village Hall. Membership is £10 per annum (no additional charge for members at talks) for membership details please contact Lynne Hubbard on: 01590 612408 or email: lynnehbd@aol.com Visitors are welcome to the talks for £2. Hythe Flower Club’s next meeting is Thursday 11th April. ey meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month except August at Hythe and Dibden Parish Hall, West Street, Hythe. 6.45pm for 7.30pm. One years membership is £36 (for 11 meetings). Good value for an evening of entertainment (probably less than a cup of co ee). Go along and visit their friendly inclusive Flower Club, you will receive a warm welcome. Hythe Flower Club SPRING HAS SPRUNG! by Debbie Thorne, Foresters Flower Club For more information please call Debbie orne: 07769 830752. Wishing everyone a happy, sunny, peaceful Easter. Trying to keep the excitement of Easter eggs and chocolate aside, we are looking at seasonal owers! Most of us like to keep our varieties of sunshine yellow da odils (o cially narcissi) dotted around our homes as long as possible. Presumably to remind ourselves that winter has passed and sunshine is on its way, along with longer days to enjoy our gardens and beautiful countryside. Da odil bulbs are poisonous - don’t confuse them with your onions! e sap that comes out of their stems when they are cut can be toxic to other owers. Because of this, they should remain separate, even from other spring owers. Don’t despair though, da odils look gorgeous alone with a mix of varieties. If arranging in oral foam, large orchid tubes can prevent the sap from leaching towards other owers. Don’t forget to vary the direction of their trumpets to encourage the eye to travel over all the owers. An alternative is to grow or buy many varieties of narcissi and plant in a staggered timeline. en, with nature’s help, hopefully you will have an abundance of di erent varieties to display together in glorious sunshine groups. If you can’t bring yourself to cut these sunny beauties, now is a good time to plan spring displays for your garden, tubs, or for inside pots over the winter. Spring bulbs come in a magical mix of colours, scents, ower sizes and heights. Planting spring bulbs in September can help an early display - why not enjoy the owers of spring as soon as nature allows us! Our next meetings are all held at Copythorne Parish Hall, SO40 2NZ, 7.30pm: 4th April: Demonstration by Martina Coleman – ‘Floodlights and Clapperboards’, 2nd May: ‘Summer Promenade’ - in-house trio of practical stations - corsages, origami owers and a quiz, 6th June: Presentation by Susie Gay, our local Flower Farmer, and posies to buy.
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