The Hampshire Federation of Horticultural Societies

Jane & Steve Page - Beauty and the Beasts - our wildlife garden story
2025-07-30 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Victory Hall, Warsash, 27 Warsash Rd, Warsash, SO31 9HW, United Kingdom
Jane and Steve took the bold decision some years ago to completely revamp their original garden to create a haven for all manner of wildlife, both flora and fauna, giving a welcome home to a multitude of pollinating insects etc.

Highcliffe Horticultural Society
2025-08-04 19:00 - 21:00 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Highcliffe BH23 5AA, Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe, BH23 5LD, United Kingdom
Talk by Barry Clarke entitled ‘Plant collections and history of Hillier Gardens’. Refreshments, plants sales and raffle. Non-members £3.

All Year Round Colour - Geoff Hawkins
2025-08-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Bramshaw Village Hall, Row Hill, Bramshaw, SO43 7JE, United Kingdom
Join us for an informative talk from Geoff Hawkins. Geoff was formerly Head Gardner for the private estate of Mill Court, near Alton. As a head gardener running a small estate of 30 acres, Geoff worked in greenhouses, vegetable and fruit gardens, herbaceous and shrub borders as well as looking after the trees, ponds and natural features on the estate.
If you struggle to maintain a consistent show of colour throughout the year, then come along for some inspiration. Free to members, guests welcome for £3.00 which includes a hot drink and biscuits.

Gardens of Australia
2025-08-13 19:30 - 21:30 | St Gregory’s Parish Hall, Alresford, Grange Road, Alresford, SO24 9AD, United Kingdom
Glenn Duggan will give a talk about gardens of Australia.

Gardens of Australia
2025-08-13 19:30 - 21:30 | St Gregory’s Parish Hall, Alresford, Grange Road, Alresford, SO24 9AD, United Kingdom
This is a talk by Glenn Duggan.

WOODLAND FLORA, speaker Chris Westcott
2025-08-13 19:30 - 21:45 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Winchester, Oliver’s Battery Road South, Winchester, SO22 4EU, United Kingdom
Monthly meeting by Winchester Gardening Club

Aspects of Fuchsias - Carol Gubler
2025-08-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott, GU26 6TZ, United Kingdom
Grayshott Gardeners is delighted to welcome Carol Gubler, owner of Little Brook Fuchsias. Little Brook Fuchsias is a specialist fuchsia nursery based in Ash Green in Surrey and sells over 400 different types of fuchsias from those with tiny flowers to large doubles! Do come join us to hear all about these beautiful and very popular plants.
Hall doors open at 7.15pm.
Members free, visitors (always welcome) £5. More details can be found at www.grayshottgardeners.net.

Bransgore Horticultural Society Meeting
2025-09-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Ann’s Lodge, Bransgore, Burnt House Lane, Bransgore, BH23 8DD, United Kingdom
Lecture by Simon Moore – “All about Fungi”

'Succession Planting'
2025-09-10 19:00 - 21:30 | Lavant Memorial Hall, Pook Lane, Lavant, PO18 0AH, United Kingdom
Steve Edney will tell us how to achieve round the year interest in the garden.

Roses – Elizabeth Sawday
2025-09-10 20:00 - 21:30 | Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott, GU26 6TZ, United Kingdom
Grayshott Gardeners is delighted to welcome Elizabeth Sawday of Apuldram Roses. Apuldram Roses is a family run business originally set up by Diane Sawday in 1979 and now run by Jonathan and Elizabeth Sawday. The company has been growing and selling roses for over 40 years and are based near Chichester in West Sussex. As well as selling a wide selection or roses they also run courses and exhibit at national rose shows, winning their first gold medal in 2009 at Hampton Court Flower Show. Do come join us to hear all about these beautiful and very popular plants.

Hall doors open at 7.15pm.
Members free, visitors (always welcome) £5. More details can be found at www.grayshottgardeners.net

Grasses and Ferns
2025-09-17 19:30 - 21:30 | St Saviors Church Hall, Brockenhurst, Wilverley Rd, Brockenhurst, SO42 7SP
Grasses and Ferns presented by Chris Bird. Chris is a lecturer at Sparsholt College with an interest in plants and their arrangement. Visitors welcome £5 entrance fee.
Contact: brockhorticulture@yahoo.com

Arboriculture - What is it?
2025-09-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Wallops Parish Hall, Salisbury Hill, Middle Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 8EG, United Kingdom
This talk by William Ross of Ross Consulting will provide a basic introduction to arboriculture with some examples. Mr Ross will talk about trees and planning (TPOs and conservation areas), why the local authority requires reports for planning and some myths exploding. To include a discussion/Q&A session.
Open to non-members (£4 entry) to include glass of wine. Raffle prizes.

WILDLIFE GARDENING
2025-09-24 19:00 - 21:00 | St Peter’s Church Hall, Free Street, Bishops Waltham, SO32 1EE, St. Peter's Church Hall, Free Street, BISHOPS WALTHAM, SO321EE, United Kingdom
Not a ‘how to’ talk about wildlife gardening, this is their real life account of some of the joys and challenges experienced on the way. They are members of Hampshire & I-o-W Wildlife Trust.

Nick Gilbert - Preparing Dahlias for Winter
2025-09-24 19:30 - 21:30 | Victory Hall, Warsash, 27 Warsash Rd, Warsash, SO31 9HW, United Kingdom
Preparing dahlias for winter and Gilbert’s Nursery dahlia year highlights.

‘Autumn Bulbs for Spring Flowers’ by Tim Woodland
2025-09-25 19:15 - 21:00 | Whiteparish Memorial Centre, Common Road, Whiteparish, Salisbury, SP5 2SU
All about spring flowering bulbs….with some for sale
Members free; visitors £3 (just turn up)

Martyn Cox Gardeners’ Questions
2025-09-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Emsworth Community Centre, North St, Emsworth, PO10 7DD
£5 for none members, doors open 7.00pm for refreshments- £1 and raffle tickets on sale
A chance to pose your gardening questions to experts. You are encouraged to bring along your plants, leaves, flowers, or whatever you need answers for, heathy or otherwise, for a hands on question and answer session.
Answering your questions will be Martyn Cox, the author of 11 books, who writes about gardening for many magazines and newspapers, and appears on screen as a guest gardening expert on several TV shopping channels.
We hope to book a second expert to join Martyn on the panel.

Making Space for Nature in our Gardens
2025-09-25 19:30 - 21:30 | Cliddesden Village Hall, Church Lane, Cliddesden, RG25 2JQ, United Kingdom
Susan Simmonds, Community Ecologist with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, will talk to us about making space for nature in our gardens.

Highcliffe Horticultural Society
2025-10-06 19:00 - 21:00 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Highcliffe BH23 5AA, Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe, BH23 5LD, United Kingdom
Talk by Mike Read entitled ‘Dorset Naturally’. Refreshments, plants sales and a raffle. Non-members £3.

Liss Horticultural Society evening talk
2025-10-07 19:30 - 21:30 | The Triangle Centre, Mill Road, Liss, GU33 7DX, United Kingdom
October monthly meeting with a talk by Tim Woodland about “Spring Bulbs”. Free to members, open to non-members for modest fee.

Shrubs
2025-10-08 19:00 - 21:30 | Lavant Memorial Hall, Pook Lane, Lavant, PO18 0AH, United Kingdom
Andy McIndoe will suggest the perfect plant for every place in your garden.

Preceded by the Autumn Flower Competition

Matthew Wilson - Dynamic Planting: Combining Plants, Materials and Place
2025-10-08 20:00 - 21:30 | Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott, GU26 6TZ, United Kingdom
Grayshott Gardeners is delighted to welcome back Matthew Wilson for our Keynote Lecture. Matthew is an award-winning garden and landscape designer, writer, radio and television broadcaster and lecturer and will be a familiar face to many. His most popular talk at the moment is Dynamic Planting: Combining Plants, Materials and Place. This talk examines how plants can be used to maximum effect whatever the shape or size of the garden. Using examples of gardens designed by Matthew over the last 20 years, this talk considers the use of plants in relation to materials, place and vernacular, the architecture of plants and the importance of the garden in the wider environment. Come join us to hear more.

Hall doors open at 7.15pm.
Members free, Inter-village clubs £5, Other visitors £8 (Keynote Lecture). More details can be found at www.grayshottgardeners.net.

Beaulieu and District Gardening Club
2025-10-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Beaulieu Village Hall, High Street, Beaulieu, SO42 7YA
Talk on Dahlias by Bryan Madders

Speaker
2025-10-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Church Centre, The Firs, Portsmouth Road, Liphook, GU30 7DJ
Gillian Taylor
from Perennial – For the Love of Roses

Zoom Talk by Fergus Garrett
2025-10-17 07:30 - 21:00 | St Boniface Church Centre, Chandlers Ford, Hursley Rd, Chandlers Ford, SO53 2FT, United Kingdom
The Hampshire Hardy Plant Group Zoom Meeting
FERGUS GARRETT
“Succession Planting for a Long Season”
As you probably know, Fergus is Head Gardener at Great Dixter House and Gardens. He has been the Head Gardener there since 1992, working closely with Christopher Lloyd until Christopher’s death in 2006. Since then, he has become Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust. Fergus works full-time, hands-on in the garden, as well as writing and lecturing extensively across the world. He is an RHS Gardens Advisor and has participated in many RHS Trials. Learning is at the heart of the work at Great Dixter. As one of the most dynamic and complex flower gardens in the world, they feel they have the responsibility to pass on the skills needed to garden in the way they do.
If you haven’t heard Fergus speak before, he is inspirational and loves to share his extensive knowledge with others. If you have listened to him before, I am sure you will agree that he is always worth listening to again. It should be a really great talk.
You can book on-line for the talk Book Here. As a number of our members do not use Zoom, we will also be watching the Zoom talk the same time in St Boniface Church Rooms, Hursley Road, Chandler’s Ford, SO53 2FT, and you are more than welcome to join us there. The Zoom and Church Room are open at 7 pm, and the talks start at 7:30 pm
To Book the Zoom Talk: https://hants-hardy-plants.org.uk/visitors-booking/

Shrubs, The Backbone of Your Garden
2025-10-18 14:00 - 16:00 | St Saviors Church Hall, Brockenhurst, Wilverley Rd, Brockenhurst, SO42 7SP
Shrubs, the backbone of your garden. An illustrated talk presented by Geoff Hawkins, retired head gardener for a private estate near Alton. He has a wide knowledge of all aspects of horticulture. Visitors welcome £5 entrance fee. Contact: brockhorticulture@yahoo.co.uk

‘Holme: The making of a new public garden’ by Simon Goldsack
2025-10-23 19:15 - 21:00 | Whiteparish Memorial Centre, Common Road, Whiteparish, Salisbury, SP5 2SU
Simon and Liz have built the garden from a 15 acre site of an old farm. The garden design is a mixture of formal and informal sections. The formal gardens are influenced by Hidcote, The Laskett and the writings of Katherine Swift. The layout of the informal areas is inspired by Alan Bloom’s Dell Garden. A stunning garden on the Isle of Purbeck, and one we have visited as a club.
Members free; visitors £3 (just turn up)

David Tite - Carnivorous Plants
2025-10-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Victory Hall, Warsash, 27 Warsash Rd, Warsash, SO31 9HW, United Kingdom
Carnivorous Plants.

Martyn Cox Clever Ways to Grow Vegetable
2025-11-03 19:00 - 20:30 | East Meon Village Hall, Workhouse Lane, East Meon, GU32 1PF, United Kingdom
We’re thrilled to host Martyn Cox, award-winning garden writer, TV presenter, and all-round horticultural enthusiast. Martyn will be sharing Clever Ways to Grow Vegetables, full of tips, tricks, and inspiration for everyone from novice growers to seasoned veg plotters.

Highcliffe Horticultural Society
2025-11-03 19:00 - 21:00 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Highcliffe BH23 5AA, Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe, BH23 5LD, United Kingdom
Talk by Gwynne Davies entitled ‘Spring bulbs for the garden’. Refreshments, plant sales and a raffle. Non-members £3.

Liss Horticultural Society evening talk
2025-11-04 19:30 - 21:30 | The Triangle Centre, Mill Road, Liss, GU33 7DX, United Kingdom
Our monthly meeting for November.
Beverly Exall will be talking about sustainable and wildlife gardening. She is particularly interested in how to plant our gardens to cope with the changing climate. She will speak about how to increase wildlife habitats in the garden including what we should be planting to support wildlife. She will also include a section on improving soil health and the benefits this has.
Free to members, open to non-members for a modest fee.
