from Eveline, our Trading Secretary * Consider successional seed sowing for a varied, plentiful continual home grown harvest .* It’s time to take semi-ripe summer cuttings of your favourite shrubs, trees, and easy to propagate flowers, succulents and even houseplants. * Ask us to how to do it at the Hut if you’re not sure (NB There’s…Continue Reading “August ideas for Hut visitors”
Speaker: Geoff Hodge A practical talk (there are no images). We all want something for nothing, and propagation is a simple way of producing lots of new plants – for almost next to nothing! Geoff Hodge will give hints, tips and advice on vegetative propagation, splitting herbaceous plants and taking cuttings from a wide range of…Continue Reading “Free Talk: Propagation – Plants for Free”
Speaker: Dr Wilson Wall How to cultivate British native orchids in large and small gardens, including cultivation from seed.. A review of some of the species that can be successfully cultivated and how this has been done, with examples of garden meadows. A scientist by training and inclination Wilson started as a zoology graduate, then…Continue Reading “Free Talk: Orchid Cultivation in Gardens & Meadows”
In June, we were invited to Fidelis College to judge their miniature garden competition. Children, aged 4-11, are invited to take part every year, around the time of the Chelsea Flower Show. This year the title was ‘Out of this world’. We had a lovely morning at the school, judging about 20 very impressive and varied miniature…Continue Reading “Fidelis in Bloom – Out of This World”
Thanks to a collaboration with the brilliant Nature Vibezzz, on 18 June, LHS member Sarah headed up a workshop on propagating softwood cuttings. Sarah experty led the two-hour session for some 20 people – from a wide range of ages (children to seniors) and gardening experience (LHS members to complete novices.) The workshop took place…Continue Reading “Propagation – a softwood cuttings workshop”