Fernhurst
Horticultural Society
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An extra visit this April (Tuesday 17 April - £18) to see the TULIP FESTIVAL at Dunborough Park - Ripley near Guildford: Over the past ten years Baroness Caroline Sweerts de Landas has created tulip heaven at her home, Dunsborough Park, in Ripley, near Guildford. During April and May up to 40,000 tulips burst into bloom, creating the most striking sea of colour each year. Caroline brings bulbs over from the Netherlands, and plants them at the end of November. They are meticulously ordered in lines according to colour and variety. As this is a local visit it will be a car share - click here for the form and details.
Bookings now open for our Summer Trip to Sissinghurst on Wednesday 1 August: Sissinghurst is a National Trust garden and grounds. Historic, poetic, iconic; a refuge dedicated to beauty. Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson fell in love with Sissinghurst Castle and created a world renowned garden. Vita Sackville-West, the poet and writer, began transforming Sissinghurst Castle in the 1930s with her diplomat and author husband, Harold Nicolson. Harold's architectural planning of the garden rooms, and the colourful, abundant planting in the gardens by Vita, reflect the romance and intimacy of her poems and writings. Click here for more detail and a booking form.
Thank you to everyone who visited out stand at 'Open Fernhurst' in the Village Hall today and of course welcome to those of you who joined the Society this morning. We look forward to seeing you all at our Spring Show next Saturday - full details below and in your Schedule. Remember you don't have to be a member to enter.
Haslemere Garden Centre - are holding 2 evenings for local garden society members from 6-8pm on Monday 26th March and also Tues 4th September and will be offering a 20% discount on all Gardening Products and Plants and also a 10% discount on BBQ's and Furniture. Please note that any Aquatics will NOT be on Discount. They have asked that we give them an idea of numbers coming so if you will be going along please could you email pandl.colcutt@gmail.com.
A trip to Kew Gardens is being organised by Lynchmere in memory of Laura Ponsonby - members may recall that Laura came to speak to us a couple of times and that she wrote Marianne North at Kew Gardens, the definitive book on the Victorian artist and botanist whose paintings of plants from around the world are exhibited at Kew. Lynchmeere have just six places left for the trip on 16 May (£33) ring 01428 723715 or 07771 694408 for details.
Spring Show 24 March18. Our members defied the lack of Spring weather and managed to fill the Village Hall with a blaze of colour on Saturday. Click here for photographs.
