National Garden Scheme Hampshire

 

IN HAMPSHIRE

A small selection of the National Garden Scheme gardens continue to open their gates to the general public, with the added bonus of Tea and Cake (not all garden owners choose to provide these) This is in accordance with the latest Governments Guidelines.
For those of you who are fans of the free magazine Country Gardener, I’m pleased to say that this is starting up again with the September issue - available from mid August.  This magazine is available at some gardens centres and various outlets, and generally contains some very interesting articles.  Watch out for an article on Hampshire National Garden Scheme - during the pandemic.
The Hampshire gardens which are open during August are as follows:-

1st & 2nd August:  Old Camps,  Newbury Road,  Headley,   Thatcham   RG19 8LG

1st, 2nd & 3rd August:  Selborne (not the village) Caker Lane,  East Worldham, Alton. GU34 3AE

2nd & 3rd August:  Bleak Hill Nursery & Garden,  Harbridge,  Ringwood.    BH24 3PX

8th, 9th & 10th August:  Wheatley House,  Wheatley Lane,  Borden.  GU35 9PA

22nd 23rd & 24th August:      “            "              “            “            “             “      “ 

9th August:   The Thatched Cottage,   Church Road,  Upper Farringdon,  Alton  GU34 3EG

9th August:   Bramdean House,   Alresford.   SO24 0JU
15th & 16th August:   21, Chestnut Road,  Brockenhurst.   SO42 7RF.

As is the current normal all tickets have to be pre- booked online, thus controlling numbers and eliminating the need for cash.  All the gardens are available to book from the Monday prior to the opening.
ngs.org.uk  and select South East to view the gardens open for the following week.
There may well be more gardens opening, as the month progresses - these will be available to view on the website.
Very soon we will be planning our gardens for 2021, so if you feel your garden is one that would be admired by the general public and you would like the opportunity to raise funds for our hard pressed Nursing, Health and Caring charities, who have really come to the fore during these past few horrendous weeks, why not contact me and we can arrange for a member of our team to visit your garden and discuss this with you.
Take Care and Keep Well
Best Wishes
Pat Beagley (Publicity)
National Garden Scheme - Hampshire
pat.beagley@ngs.org.uk 

Sale of Day Lilies

Please note the latest entry in "For Sale and wanted"

GARDENS OPEN FOR THE SALISBURY HOSPICE FROM JULY 5th

We have received this notice from Daphne Ince

 

GARDENS OPEN FOR THE SALISBURY HOSPICE FROM JULY 5th

 

We have decided, with theses difficult times to open three gardens in the valley

 

from JULY 5^th from 10am, ONWARDS until the end of the month.

 

THIS IS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY and you must book your slot for each

 

 garden individually. PLEASE don’t just turn up.

 

The contribution will be £5.00 minimum for all three gardens, so hang on to

 

your tickets in case you need to visit another garden on a different day.

 

WE ARE SUPPORTING SALISBURY HOSPICE, that has had to cancel

 

 many fundraising events, and always NEEDS money, being mainly self

 

 supporting.

 

So if you feel generous it will be much appreciated.

 

THE GARDENS ARE:-

 

The Old Workshop, Middle Woodford, opposite the car park.  01722 782532 daphneince@waitrose.com

 

THE COURT HOUSE, LOWER WOODFORD  PHONE 01722 782237 Email   rachelstudholme@aol.com

 

AVON COTTAGE LOWER WOODFORD Email   dotty.sas@icloud.com

IDHS newsletter July 2020

          Dear All

I hope your gardens are flourishing with this lovely weather, sun and rain.

Most of you have ignored our plea for a new Treasurer so asking you again to think hard about this – do you know anyone that might be interested even if they do not currently belong to the club.

We are looking at the role to see what parts could be shared across the committee

Please please think carefully as we cannot function without a Treasurer – it would be terrible if our next meeting was our last.

The committee have been thinking about fees for membership in 2021 and have decided that the fairest thing is to say that all those that paid for 2020 (54 members) have 2021 free and all those that did not pay in 2020 pay the usual £6 in January 2021. Hopefully we might make a few meetings at the end of this year but it all depends on the state of the virus!

We have heard recently of the sad death of Neil Lovesey (not Covid) who came to speak to the club on a number of occasions and will be remembered by some members.

Don’t forget to complete your quiz from Pat, we will go through the answers at our first meeting.

We have had a message from Bob Foulser from Cerne Abbas gardens who have not been able to open their gardens this year but have put a collection of photos online at Cerne Abbas gardens (just click this link)

Please remember that all meetings and trips have been cancelled until the end of August when we will review where we are with the virus.

There are some lovely photos on our blogspot at IDHS blogspot (click the link) and we will always take more especially those vegetable plots – I have added one here to spur you on!

In the meantime please stay safe and well, think about the Treasurer role and hope to see you all again soon

Your Committee