Gardener’s Cuttings The Vyne gets growing
Basingstoke’s The Vyne was originally built as a great Tudor ‘power house’. The Vyne was visited by King Henry VIII on at least three occasions and later became a family home, cherished by the Chute family for more than 350 years. The attractive gardens and grounds feature an ornamental lake, delightful woodlands and flourishing wetlands, a haven for wildlife and waterfowl which can be observed from the bird hide. From 1st March to 4th March 2011, 11:00am to 3:00pm and 5th March to 31st March 2011, 11:00am to 5:00pm
The Vyne offers visitors ‘Slugs, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails’... the chance to return to school for one month only! Stroll through the stunning setting of the Stone Gallery and take a sneaky peek at some of the untold stories and unseen memorabilia of the Tormore School and the boys’ years. On 12th March it’s allotment time - a free event with entrance price only from 11am to kick start your veg and fruit growing year by joining the garden team in the Walled Garden for tips, activities and demos.
The Vyne offers grow your own advice Cherry Tree Nursery plant sale
Spring is really on the way and it’s time to think about buying new plants to liven up your garden. If you buy them from Cherry Tree Nursery, Bournemouth, named last year as Wessex Charity of the Year, you’ll be helping a really good cause as well.
The nursery, a horticultural charity offering therapy and rehabilitation to people with mental health problems, is holding its spring plant sale on Saturday 26th March, from 8am until 3pm. Most of the plants sold in 2 litre pots will be at reduced prices, so there’s a bargain to be found.
There will also be a wide range of stalls, live music, South American crafts, Mexican jewellery, a raffle and a tombola, home- made cakes, books, CDs and DVDs for sale, with free tea and coffee.
The nursery produces over 100,000 high quality garden plants on the 4 ½ acre site, including perennials, shrubs, trees, climbers, grasses, bamboos, ferns and conifers, from the more common plants to the unusual.
Bedding, perennials and bulbs from the sister project, Chestnut Tree Nursery at Poole, are also sold. The nursery is open six days a week, so for more details phone 01202 593537 or visit the website
www.cherrytreenursery.org.uk
Cherry Tree Nursery, off New Road, Northbourne, Bournemouth BH10 7DA.
Orchard farm offers food events alongside local produce These days we want to know exactly where our food has come from. We want to know that the animals have been reared humanely and non-intensively and the miles from food to table have been kept to a minimum. The consumer is more conscious of the route from farm to table. Orchard Park, just outside Gillingham off the B3081 Shaftesbury Road, supplies customers with locally sourced products in their Farm Shop.
This year, to showcase the fine food on offer, Orchard Park are offering a variety of events from cooking demonstrations to tastings.
The Orchard Park Farm Shop stocks beef and lamb from neighbouring Lagan Farm. Ron & Sheila Clarke of Lagan Farm have been rearing prize- winning rare breeds of cattle and sheep for over twenty years and they are great supporters of traditional British breeds. These include one of
the oldest breeds of cattle, the British White, the 200 year old Red Poll and one of the rarest breeds of cattle, the Irish Moiled. Their home-grown lamb comes from the Wiltshire Horn Sheep. The Farm Shop stocks pork, poultry and game, all sourced within Dorset. The team of Orchard Park butchers produce succulent sausages, burgers and faggots and delicious home made pies, pasties and sausage rolls, which are baked on site.
February will offer Unsung Heroes – cooking with reasonably priced cuts of meat you may have never cooked with before, such as shin of beef, offal and lamb neck (17th February 2011). Followed in March by a cooking demonstration by the award- winning Head Chef, Callum Keir of Holbrook House. Callum will demonstrate how to produce a delicious three-course menu cooked from the finest locally sourced ingredients from the Orchard Park Farm Shop (24th March 2011). April will offer a bakery course with Panary in time for Easter (8th & 15th April 2011).
Call 01747 835544, email
farmshop@orchardpark.uk.net or visit
www.orchardpark.biz Country Gardener
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The Vyne, Vyne Road, Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG24 9HL Telephone: 01256 883858
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