The speaker at the meeting of the Littleton and Harestock Gardening Club on February 18th was Stewart Pocock, his subject “A Short Masterclass in Roses” A video showed how Pococks rear roses, (50,000 every year), in two nurseries, near Romsey and in Cornwall. Rootstock is mechanically planted, (20,000 in a day) but much work is […]
The speaker at the January meeting of the Littleton and Harestock Gardening Club was Fran Clifton, head gardener at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, her topic “Various Cultivars, The Natural Habitat And The Cultivation Of Snowdrops” The genus name “galanthus”means milk flower in Greek and they are found throughout Europe and Asia Minor. They appear when […]
The speaker was Janine Pattison whose talk was entitled Big Ideas for Small Gardens. Janine began her working life at Eltham Palace, an English Heritage property where she helped to restore the historic gardens and dry moat. During her time there she gained qualifications in horticulture and landscape gardening. She is now head of her […]
