Gardener’s Cuttings
Alton school wins top RHS mini garden award
Alton Infant School has won the prestigious ‘Green Award’ for its mini-garden in this year’s Royal Gardeners’ Competition at RHS Garden Wisley.
The garden is entitled ‘We’ve no Room to Grow Fruit and Vegetables’. The children want everyone to have a garden. They grew most of the plants used in their garden and helped with the willow weaving.
“We had a really fantastic day and the standard of designs and gardens submitted by the children this year Gardiner, Director of Horticulture, RHS. “It is so good to see such talent and interest from both schools and their children. Gardening has many advantages so I do hope that these children will remain involved.” RHS Wisley received a record number of entries. The RHS called for all young budding gardeners to design a mini- garden to fit in a 1m x 1m pallet and Wisley selected 33 entries from across 10 counties to display. This is eight more than last year when the competition was launched.The mini- gardens were planted by the young gardeners on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th May and are on show at
Hardy’s keep on travelling
There’s busy and there’s really busy! exhausted from putting on an award-winning display at Chelsea Flower Show just days earlier, drove 400 miles north from their for the Gardening Scotland event knowing their fellow exhibitors include other specialists and Chelsea gold medallists. The grounds of the were transformed by an explosion of colour and scent produced by hundreds and thousands of plants. From modest beginnings 11 years ago, Gardening Scotland has flourished and this year attracted 32,000 visitors who spent more than £1million on plants.
David and Jeremy Trehane with a small selection of the RHS Medals awarded over 45 years at London Shows
Hampshire Wood fair moves to new venue
celebration of wood in all its forms from biomass to diversity with a chance to have a go at coppice crafts or even buy timber for your own project. The park is Hampshire’s biggest country park... 20 miles of trails for walkers, cyclists and 5040 or go to
www.hants.gov.uk/qecp
Plan for autumn colour at Wakehurst Place
The walled garden at Wakehurst
It may be a little early but you can plan to see a spectacular show of autumn country estate in the heart of the West Sussex countryside. Special Autumn Colour Weekends are being organised at the 500-acre estate to enable people to make the most of nature’s dazzling display, with guided walks,
mini-bus tours and an information stall. Highlights around the estate include red- leafed maples, amber sweetgums, and the golden yellows of Wakehurst’s national collection of birches. And as well as the sights of autumn, there are also the smells - Cercidiphyllum japonicum, known as the Candy Floss tree, is a big hit with visitors because of its distinctive smell of burnt sugar.
Admission is payable, walks and mini-bus tours are free to garden visitors, no pre- booking required.
Camellia specialist nursery plans for the future
Trehane Nursery, the UK’s leading camellia specialist has changed ownership. The nursery, which has been run by the Trehane family for over 60 years, is now under the management of David Trehane.
David has been working in the horticultural industry for 25 years. Named NFU Young Grower of the Year in 2005 for his rapidly expanding blueberry
succession for everyone concerned with the internationally acclaimed nursery.
out on a consultancy basis, utilising her international network of plant breeders to bring new varieties to the nursery.
Trehane Nursery is at Hampreston, near Wimborne and opens Monday to Friday from 8.30am – 4.30pm. Weekend opening is from 10.00am – 4.00pm February – May and October – December inclusive.
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