Sunlight breaking through the trees in the New Forest
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 […]
Mary had a little lamb – now Sparsholt College is having hundreds! An intense period of sleepless nights awaits on the farm at Sparsholt College as lambing season approaches. Ones of the busiest times in the farming calendar, and for many farms one of their largest sources of income, the arrival of twins and triplets […]
Southampton Christmas Market 14th November -31st December Christmas Wonderland at Paultons Park, Romsey 16th November – 22nd December City Centre Christmas Lights Switch-On, Portsmouth 21st November Held in the pedestrian precinct area. 16:00 – 18:30 Winchester Cathedral Christmas Market 21st November -22nd December Recognised as one of the best in Europe and inspired by traditional […]
Winchester’s little-known connection with Sherlock Holmes has been marked with a new plaque. The former Black Swan Hotel on the corner of Southgate Street and the High Street was visited by Sir Arthur Conan’s Doyle’s famous sleuth and his partner Dr Watson in The Adventure of the Copper Beeches. Now some keen detective work by […]
The official launch of Top Gun of the Sky took place at the Hawk Conservancy Trust on 9th November. It is a poem based children’s book seen through the eyes of a Peregrine Falcon, written and illustrated by Fawley Refinery employee Martin Bradley. It is the first book Martin has ever had published and it’s […]
