Braishfield Horticultural Society

The Village Gardening Club

 



Tips of
the week:

Put a handful of nitrate fertilizer (Sodium or Potassium nitrate, not Ammonium compounds) on the compost heap to speed up decay.
Remember to pinch out side shoots on tomatoes to get bigger fruits for exhibition.
Mushrooms can be grown outdoors in a unused piece of grassland.

  • PROGRAMME 2022

  • 11 January 2022
    GROWING SOFT FRUIT
    Wilf Simcox. Wilf has talked to us in the past about gardens in Iceland!

  • 8 February 2022
    'WILL THERE BE ENOUGH CAKE'
    Mark Porter, The history of the National Garden Scheme.

  • 8 March 2022
    UNDERGROUND VEGETABLES
    Chris Bird, Sparsholt College.

  • 12 April 2022
    ‘TALE OF TWO GARDENS’
    Rosemary Le Grand
    The Orchid Garden and Garden of the Bay, Singapore.
    Also SPRING SHOW

  • 10 May 2022
    HEAVENLY HOSTAS
    John Baker.

  • Wednesday 11 May 2022
    GARDEN VISIT
    The Cottage, 16 Lakewood Road, Chandler's Ford.
    Click here. for details

  • Tuesday 21 June
    GARDEN VISIT
    The Deane House, Sparsholt.
    Click here. for details

  • Tuesday 28 June
    GARDEN VISIT
    Spitfire House, Chattis Hill, Stockbridge.
    Click here. for details

  • Saturday 16 July 2022
    VILLAGE FLOWER SHOW

  • August
    NO MEETING

  • 13 September 2022
    THE ENGLISH WINE INDUSTRY
    Jonathan Rogers,
    The Solent Wine Experience, Emsworth.

  • 11 October 2022
    MEMBERS' EVENING
    also APPLE COMPETITION

  • 8 November 2022
    ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
    Wine, Nibbles and Quiz.

  • December
    NO MEETING


One of the gardens we have visited in the past.

An unusual plant from the rhs website.
All these plants can be bought from the rhs.


Link with the Michelmersh and Timsbury Horticultural Society

The Braishfield Horticultural Society has an arrangement with the Michelmersh and Timsbury Horticultural Society so that members can attend each other's talks and visits. The Michelmersh and Timsbury Society programme can be viewed here. Please be prepared to show your membership card at the door.