29th October 2026 • The HERALD • Page 59 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES v 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 For all your garden clearance and fencing needs Please call 07515 749731 for your free no obligation quote 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 DOWN THE GARDEN PATH Tales from the Cutting Garden by Debbie Thorne, Foresters Flower Club a multi Chelsea Gold Medallist and was Creative Director of the Wild! Festival. Members £3, visitors £10. All are welcome to join us for this evening including seasonal refreshments. Let’s begin the Festive Season! 3rd December will be Seasonal fun and games. ere is no meeting in January. For more information please contact Debbie orne: 07769 830752. Autumn is here! e trees are putting on a wonderful colourful show, the evenings are longer and animals are beginning to prepare to hibernate but NOT Foresters Flower Club members! I think this is our busiest month yet! We began by joining forces with Bartley Horticultural Society, the WI (Copythorne) and Sundowners as we hosted the 2nd Copythorne Macmillan Cuppa event on 28th September. A fantastic a ernoon of cake and we raised in excess of £1,500, the nal gure is still rising! Congratulations to Copythorne Parish! Our October club meeting began with an inspiring demonstration by Katie Baxter, Tales from the Cutting Garden. Katie was one of the very talented Design Team Leaders for Wild! Winchester Cathedral’s Festival of Flowers and Nature, so before her demonstration we asked Katie to tell us how such an innovative and original festival was achieved. Katie explained the planning process, nearly two years in the planning, the overall concept, workshops, Pollards Moor Road, SO40 2NZ. 5th November is our Christmas demonstration – A Natural Christmas by National Demonstrator Angela Turner. Angela is Katie Baxter’s designs the hard work, the laughter and the actual installation from paper to reality. e Wild Weather installation included 4,000 handmade paper owers, just one part of the Festival! Already in awe we were then transported to a New Forest hotel where Katie is a gardener for several days a week. She mentioned parts of the garden where she has responsibility – always conscious of using environmentally friendly mechanics. Her rst display used a large glass container lled with fresh water and a variety of sticks, surrounded outside by cones, conkers and autumn leaves. en using the sticks and branches for support we were treated to a display of alliums and aconitum, upright as they would grow in a herbaceous owerbed. e following display was using a warm coloured terracotta pot complemented by a display of peach and apricot coloured owers, with grass seed heads and other autumnal garden owers. We were also treated to a traditional trug basket design, glorious foliage, seasonal garden owers mixed with some British grown helianthus, everything in season. Katie demonstrated a hand tied design, how to build a strong frame work in the hand and when nished not only one hand tied vase but 3 in total. To complete a wonderful stage Katie nished with an asymmetrical design in an urn where the stars of the show were the darkest of hydrangea heads. All designs were glorious; those in foam featured the new Renewal foam which has hopefully less impact on the environment. What an inspiring evening. Our next challenge is the hedgerow wreath ring workshop – yet to take place. All meetings take place at Copythorne Parish Hall,
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