Sunlight breaking through the trees in the New Forest
A multi award-winning garden designer, leading horticultural journalist and top plantsmen will be taking part in the UK’s first Vegan Garden Festival at Hook’s Hortus Loci nursery next month. With practical tips on growing and cooking vegan food, the free-to-attend event is aimed at people interested in switching to a plant-only diet, as well as […]
The volunteer festival organisers have been delighted by the incredible response in the lead up to this year’s Winchester Heritage Open Days festival. Eleven events are fully booked, and others are almost fully booked! Local residents and visitors who have not yet had a chance to book still have plenty of events to choose from […]
Ricky Collard will make his Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship debut at Rockingham (11/12 August) as he substitutes for his dad Rob at Team BMW. He will also race at Knockhill (25/26 August). Rob was involved in high-speed incidents during Races One and Two at Snetterton in July; the second of which meant that […]
28 and 29 July 2018, at the Hawk Conservancy Trust. Coming up during the summer holidays of 2018 is a special weekend event with wildlife TV presenter and naturalist Martin Hughes-Games. Martin is one of the UK’s most popular and respected naturalists and zoologists, best known as one of the presenters of the BBC’s successful live […]
Bag a part of BBC TV history when thousands of plants from Countryfile’s 30th anniversary celebratory show garden from RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show go on sale at Hook’s Hortus Loci nursery. The wildlife garden, by celebrity designer and TV presenter Ann-Marie Powell, was one of the highlights of last week’s RHS show and […]
‘Rias de Galicia: A Garden at the End of the Earth’ Hampshire designer Rose McMonigall was helped by members of BBC’s Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago cast, Neil Morrissey, Raphael Rowe and Reverend Kate Bottley to officially open her silver medal-winning show garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Following the success of the […]
Volunteers on heritage steamship, SS Shieldhall, are celebrating having received one of the highest accolades from a national organisation. The Southampton-based vessel has been chosen as the 2018 regional flagship for the National Historic Fleet. The award was given not just because of the ship’s unique history but also in recognition of the work put […]
The Red Bull Air Race is making its only 2018 UK appearance at the Farnborough International Airshow. Red Bull Air Race is bringing a team of two pilots flying Edge 540 raceplanes to demonstrate to the Farnborough Airshow audience the very best of the new dimension of motorsport. In the demonstration, Italian pilot Dario Costa […]
Victorious Festival (24-26 August ‘18), the UK’s biggest metropolitan festival, is introducing a brand new element, comedy, to Victorious 2018. The new comedy tent will feature a fantastic line up of comedians curated by Portsmouth’s very own PM Promotions who run multiple nights across the South Coast. Featuring a fantastically funny line up including; Sunjai […]
Dorset photographer and author Roger Lane is perhaps best known for his Dorset landscapes, and books including Cranborne Chase – a secret landscape. In complete contrast he has now self-published a book featuring some of his colourful motor racing images from almost fifty years ago. In the mid 1960’s Roger was a Flag Marshal for […]
