Page 56 • The HERALD • 18th April 2024 v THE HERALD - Proud to be part of your communityv ✿ DOWN THE GARDEN PATH ✿ FIRST HALF HOUR FREE for gardening on production of this advertisment (Valid to 30th April 2024) • Patios • Decking • Turfing/Astro • Fencing/Gates • Outbuildings • All aspects of Gardening • Pergolas and all timber frame work • Sheds 07593 423276 • www.heronslandscaping.co.uk cameron@heronslandscaping.co.uk ✁ ✁ All Aspects of Garden Work Undertaken • Driveways • Paving • Artificial Grass • Turfing • Decking • Fencing • Hedge Cutting • Landscaping Hythe Garden Contractors Family company established 1977 For a free quotation please call 023 8084 3556 or 023 8084 0378 • All types of trees expertly felled, topped & pruned • Stump Grinding • Hedges pruned & trimmed • Lawns Laid • Fencing & garden work • Rubbish Clearance • Patios & drives jet-washed • Patios & Drives resurfaced or replaced Registerd Waste Carrier Licence CBDU374716 H Fully Insured H Evening: 01794 522092 Daytime Mobile: 07946 513633 Email: treefellers@gmx.com HYTHE FLOWER CLUB On ursday 14th March Hythe Flower Club had a visit from Kelly Shaw with her demonstration entitled ‘Celebration of Nature’s Bounty’. ey knew they were in for an entertaining evening when Kelly appeared on stage dressed for gardening complete with wellies. A keen gardener with an allotment, every design was a reference to the produce grown by Kelly and her family. Even her two young children help, getting muddy in the process. Explaining that potatoes were something the family Avalanche Roses and fountain grass to lend an airy feel. Using just green and white colours it was so natural looking. Kelly has just had a greenhouse constructed on her allotment so her next design mirrored what she grew last year. Into a terracotta pot went ferns to represent tomato leaves, green hypericum, then orange/yellow spray carnations and nally red germinis to chart the ripening of tomatoes. A tall pole was ready to feed our feathered friends once seeds etc were placed. Eryngium equalled teazles, astrantia = seeds, Sun owers = more seeds. With fountain grass added, a striking design and no garden is complete without a Robin redbreast so red germinis paid homage to this friendly bird. A large frame for runner beans was the nal design. Buckthorn was placed as if growing up the canes, gradually owers were put in tubes at various heights to mimic companion planting. Green chrysanthemums = courgettes, yellow chrysanthemums = sweetcorn, red and white tulips = bean owers and nally orange gerberas = pumpkins. What imaginative designs from a new demonstrator who they’re sure will go from strength to strength. Hopefully they can welcome Kelly again in the future. Hythe Flower Club meet on the second Thursday of the month except August. Visitors are always warmly welcomed and their next meeting is their AGM with a speaker a erwards. ey meet at Hythe and Dibden Parish Hall 6.45pm for 7.30pm. BLACKFIELD FLOWER CLUB Jennifer ompson, a NAFAS demonstrator from Surrey came to the club in March with a demonstration entitled ‘A Good Read’. e rst arrangement featured a tall metal stand with some books placed at the base. e theme for this design was Darcey Bussell and ballet. Various types of foliage were inserted including phoenix palm, leather leaf fern, pittisporum, abelia and eucalyptus. Mauve roses (Memory Lane), viburnam opulus, blue clematis (Pirouette) were added together with a couple of plaited phormium leaves. A second arrangement completed this design. A classic book ‘Swallows and Amazons’ by Arthur Ransome was the inspiration for this design. An orchid bowl was used and several strands of blue and green wool had been wrapped around the outline of the container to represent a boat. Two shaped palm leaves represented the sails, galax leaves and grevillea were used for the stern and lisianthus buds for the bow. A beautiful pink cymbidium orchid was placed in the centre. Purple carnations (Moonlight) were added together with pinkedged white lisianthus. A very pretty design. e third design was an interpretation of the London Eye and the book by Edward Rutherford which was simply entitled ‘London’. A bicycle wheel was used which had been decorated on the outer rim with dried owers placed in re-used small clear plastic Easter eggs. Pretty little lights were threaded through the spokes. A rectangular design was created in front of the wheel. Galax leaves were used for the outline together with euonymous. Several stems of bear grass bound with wire were placed in the background. Red germinis and bright green hypericum berries completed this design. A ‘Lady in Waiting’ by Anne Glenconner came next. Anne had led an interesting life, brought up at Holkham Hall in Norfolk and became a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. A metal stand decorated with green leaves and red grapes and a glass container placed on top was used for this design. An unusual asparagus was used for the outline before adding pink Aqua roses, orange tulips, pink spray roses, eryngium sprayed gold and some feathery thelaspi (Green Bell). A second arrangement was placed on a smaller metal stand to complete the design. e nal design had a tropical theme interpreting holiday reading. A metal stand with two pink palms attached was used for this design. Palms, leather leaf fern, dracena, spotted foliage and plaited phoenix palm was inserted before adding orange leucospermum, pale pink spray roses, wax ower and germini stalks. e next meeting will take place on 14th May there will be a demonstration by Andrea Hilliard entitled ‘Time to Relax’. Meetings take place on the second Tuesday of the month at 2pm at the Royal British Legion, Exbury Road, Black eld, SO45 1XD – visitors welcome, please call Jan Gordon on 023 8084 4835 for more details. enjoyed growing. A design re ected that with da odils representing an early crop and yellow lilies the main crop. Using a collection of jam jars in a basket no oral foam was used, an assortment of greenery and contorted Hazel completed a very attractive arrangement. No garden is complete without a watering can. This prop was made of wood. Chicken wire held the design in place. Ramanus and Pittosporum were complimented by white Alstromeria, white
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