Sunlight breaking through the trees in the New Forest
All systems go at Hardy’s Hampshire Nursery as the Chelsea Flower Show juggernaut rolls on with thousands of plants in and out of hot houses, being coaxed on and held back. Rosy Hardy says, “it never gets easier, every year is different to the one that preceded it so there is no pattern for success […]
Sparsholt College Hampshire has formed a partnership with global packaging company Huhtamaki which will give their 2014 RHS Chelsea Flower garden, The Paper Chase, a truly sustainable theme. Huhtamaki’s environmentally friendly BioWare packaging range runs through every element of the College’s garden for the forthcoming flower show. The manufacturing process and green credentials have inspired […]
An online Masters degree in English Language Teaching is being launched worldwide thanks to a collaboration between the University of Southampton and the British Council. Combining the University of Southampton’s reputation as a leading UK institution with the British Council’s expertise in English language teaching and for promoting quality UK higher education on a global […]
Senior figures from the City Council toured a number of villages in the Winchester District on Friday (21 February) to see for themselves the tremendous efforts of local volunteers in dealing with the on-going flooding. The Mayor of Winchester, Cllr Ernie Jeffs, The Mayoress of Winchester, Mrs Barbara Jeffs and Deputy Leader, Cllr Robert Humby, […]
Come the third week in May, four Main Avenue gardens will be resplendent with Hortus Loci plants and trees. This year Hortus Loci MD’s Robin Wallis and Mark Straver are backing the crop of ‘young gun’ designers whose work seems to be creating the biggest buzz in 2014. Matthew Childs won best in show at […]
Winchester City Council is inviting all those in the cultural and creative industries in the Winchester District to a conference on Friday 28 February (9am to 1.30pm) at the Middle Brook Centre in Winchester City Centre. The free conference is to launch the Council’s new strategy: Culture, Innovation and the Winchester Economy. The strategy aims […]
Exbury has always been a firm favourite with families visiting the New Forest, but this year there is even more reason to discover the award-winning woodland gardens. Alongside the exclusive spring season ‘Gilbury Lane’ garden – opening for the first time in 2014 and planted with over 200 named varieties of Camellias – will be […]
Winchester City Council staff are working hard to minimise disruption caused to residents by the increasing number of flooding incidents across the district. The main focus of problems is Hambledon, where temporary alternative arrangements for the collection of refuse have been put in place because waste collection vehicles cannot reach properties. Three communal bin collection […]
The UK’s pre-eminent collection of Lachenalias (the ‘leopard lily’) will be displayed at Exbury Gardens in the New Forest between Sat 15 March and Sun 6 April 2014. The exhibition, hosted in the Gardens’ Five Arrows Gallery, will be staged for an extra week this year as interest in the South African bulb continues to rise. Nicholas de Rothschild, President of the […]
All new introductions from Whitchurch-based Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants this year are from home-grown breeders and each plant has unusual and perhaps novel attributes. GAURA lindheimeri “Freefolk Rosy” Bred by hardy’s this is a variegated form of Gaura “Rosy Jane” Originally a sport from the parent plant, which has been checked for stability over several […]
