v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SPECIALISTS v 14th May 2026 • The HERALD • Page 57 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 DOWN THE GARDEN PATH Smithwood Landscaping Professional Gardening & Landscaping • SeasonalTidy Ups • Garden Redesign • Fencing •Trees & Shrubs Carefully Pruned • AstroTurf • Rockeries Designed • Ground Cover No JobToo Small as I am a Local Gardener Any advice over the phone is freely given Contact Gary (Master Landscaper) 07707 433194 For all your garden clearance and fencing needs Please call 07515 749731 for your free no obligation quote HEALTHY HAVEN SUMMER OPEN AFTERNOON Blackfield Flower Club e Chairman welcomed the members to the April meeting and announced that Ann Faircloth had been awarded Best in Show at the area competition on 8th April with a decorated hat made from natural materials. e demonstrator for this meeting was Alison Finch and her demonstration was entitled ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’. A pink bird box was used for this design. Fatsia leaves were used to create an outline before adding pink carnations, pink antirrhinums and pink roses. More foliage was added and a birds nest completed this design. A large basket was used for the next design. Various types of foliage were used including arum italicum margaratum, hellebore leaves, hebe and rubus tricolour. Stunning orange germinis, pink antirrhinums and pink roses (Miss Piggy) were added together with some glycerined eucalyptus and blue clematis. A string of small baskets and a smaller arrangement completed this design. Alison had created an aluminium wire holder for a Go along to the Healthy Haven Garden for a summer open a ernoon in the beautiful community garden behind the Waterside Health Centre in Beaulieu Road, Hythe on Saturday 13th June, 1pm–3.30pm. Drop in and enjoy tea and homemade cakes, garden tours, a tombola and their very popular plant stall, with proceeds going to the Healthy Haven (please note that this is a cash only event). For those of you who have not yet visited, the garden is run as a communal garden space for patients of the practice, practice sta and the local community and is maintained by local volunteers. Do go along and support them. Healthy Haven Garden handtied bouquet to interpret buttons. Griselinia was placed rst before adding orange germinis and pink Miss Piggy roses. Wool covered hoops representing the buttons were placed on a stand with the handtied bouquet at the base. Butter ies were the inspiration for this design. Acuba was used together with yellow roses, blue statice and myrtle. Yellow craspedia was used for the antenna. e wings had been made from manipulated phormium leaves sprayed gold. A second butter y was added and a trough of spring owers added the nal touch to this dainty design and classical music was played. A large urn was used for the last design. Fatsia leaves, phoenix palm and choisya provided the outline before adding white delphiniums, white Anatasia chrysanthemums, cream roses and a little in owers reasons to be cheerful. Meetings take place on the second Tuesday of the month at 2pm at the Royal British Legion Club, Exbury Road, Black eld, SO45 1XD – visitors welcome, please call Jan Gordon on: 023 8084 4835 for more details. dill. A second smaller arrangement completed this design. A most enjoyable afternoon interpreting
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTIyNzI=