THE HUMBLE POTATO
2026-03-25 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | St Peter’s Church Hall, Free Street, Bishops Waltham, SO32 1EE, St. Peter's Church Hall, Free Street, BISHOPS WALTHAM, SO321EE, United Kingdom
John is a retired head gardener and horticultural lecturer.
He has designed two gardens for the Chelsea Flower Show which included The Dig for Victory Garden in 2001.
He was also a judge on the ‘Great British Village Show’ a programme hosted by Alan Titchmarsh which aired on Sunday evenings on BBC1 in 2007.
This evening’s talk will take you to the high Andes in Peru and Chile, tracing the history of the potato up to the present time. Covering breeding, cultivation, showing, pest and disease control.

The Modern Kitchen Garden
2026-03-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Victory Hall, Warsash, 27 Warsash Rd, Warsash, SO31 9HW, United Kingdom
Warsash Horticultural Society welcomes Barry Newman to give this illustrated talk.
Refreshments and raffle. Non-members £2.

Early Spring Perrenials
2026-03-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Cliddesden Village Hall, Church Lane, Cliddesden, RG25 2JQ, United Kingdom
Gillian Fitt is a local gardener who has a great working knowledge of all types of garden plants and is coming to talk about her favorite spring perennials, the choice, care, and planting to get success with your borders and garden. Gillian will bring some plants with her for sale at the meeting.

74th Spring Show of West Moors Horticultural Society
2026-03-28 13:30 - 16:00 | Memorial Hall, West Moors, 231 Station Road, West Moors, Ferndown, BH22 0HZ, United Kingdom
The 74th Spring Show of West Moors Horticultural Society will take place in the village of West Moors. Admission is free and all are welcome. Come along to enjoy beautiful displays of flowers, plants, homecrafts and photography. Classes for children. For details of how to enter email Jo at wmhorticultural.society@gmail.com or phone Mike on 07541 780217

FROXFIELD & PRIVETT GARDEN CLUB SPRING SHOW 2026
2026-03-28 14:00 - 16:00 | PRIVETT VILLAGE HALL, Fawley Lane, Privett, GU34 3NU
Our Spring Show welcomes entries from members of Froxfield & Privett Garden Club as well as those living in Froxfield and Privett. The Show takes place at Privett Village Hall, GU34 3NU. What3Words: moves. satellite. welcome. Plant stall & delicious Teas served throughout the afternoon.

Rowlands Castle Gardening Club Spring Show
2026-03-28 14:00 - 16:30 | St Johns Church Hall, Rowlands Castle, PO9 6DF, Rowlands Castle, PO9 6DF
The Rowlands Castle Gardening Club Spring Show 2026 offers floral competitions, children’s competitions, plant sales, and tea and homemade cakes. Schedules will be available on the website and from the Rowlands Castle Hardware store from 3 weeks prior.

Spring Show
2026-03-29 14:00 - 16:30 | Cliddesden Village Hall, Church Lane, Cliddesden, RG25 2JQ, United Kingdom
The annual Spring Show. Free entry. Ample free parking at the hall. Refreshments available including home-made cake and a raffle.

Bransgore Horticultural Society Meeting
2026-04-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Ann’s Lodge, Bransgore, Burnt House Lane, Bransgore, BH23 8DD, United Kingdom
Monthly meeting and lecture by John Trim – “Vegetable growing”

Spring Show
2026-04-04 13:00 - 16:00 | All Saints Church Hall, Denmead, Hambledon Road, Denmead, PO7 6NN, United Kingdom
Spring Show, open to members & non-members, to include classes for D1 – D4 Daffodils, fruit & vegetables, floral art, handicraft, homecraft, photography plus Junior classes. Staging from 8.00 am to 10.30 am. Show opens to public at 1 pm. Prize giving 3.30pm. Refreshments & raffle. Free entry. On-site parking.

Chandlers Ford & District Gardeners Club
2026-04-07 18:30 - 21:30 | St Boniface Church Centre, Chandlers Ford, Hursley Rd, Chandlers Ford, SO53 2FT, United Kingdom
Monthly Meeting
Speaker: Fiona Mooney. Talk: “A Beekeeper’s Year”

Paradise Lost and Restored
2026-04-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Lavant Memorial Hall, Pook Lane, Lavant, PO18 0AH, United Kingdom
Talk by Timothy Walker
400 years of garden design in Oxfordshire featuring Oxford Botanic Garden’s development from the 17th century.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2026-04-08 19:30 - 21:30 | St Gregory’s Parish Hall, Alresford, Grange Road, Alresford, SO24 9AD, United Kingdom
A talk about the famous Kew Gardens by Pamela Holt who trained at Kew at collected plants for them.

Planting by the Moon, speaker Charles Jennings
2026-04-08 19:30 - 21:45 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Winchester, Oliver’s Battery Road South, Winchester, SO22 4EU, United Kingdom
Monthly meeting

Plants for Shade, by Rosy Hardy
2026-04-08 20:00 - 21:30 | Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott, GU26 6TZ, United Kingdom
Grayshott Gardeners is delighted to welcome Rosy Hardy as our Keynote Speaker this month. Rosy has 35 years experience in commercial horticulture and is the owner/proprietor of Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants, based in Hampshire. Rosy is Honorary Vice President of the Royal Horticultural Society, has 24 Chelsea Gold Medals to her name and was awarded the RHS Master Grower Award 2021. She is also an author and broadcaster with her own extensive YouTube channel. She is passionate about perennials and will be talking to us about Plants for Shade.
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

Spring Show
2026-04-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Church Centre, The Firs, Portsmouth Road, Liphook, GU30 7DJ
Exhibitors must be members.
The show is open to the general public from 14.00 and entry to the show is free

Bransgore Horticultural Society Spring Show
2026-04-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Bransgore Village Hall, 116 Burley Rd, Bransgore, BH23 8AY
Spring Show to include classes for Flowers, Floral Art, Cookery, Craft, Photography and Art. Open to members and non-members. Staging from 9-10.30 am. Show opens 2 pm.

Grayshott Gardeners Spring Show
2026-04-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott, GU26 6TZ, United Kingdom
Our ever popular Spring Show which this year will host the Floral Art Inter-Village Cup

Spring Show
2026-04-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Headley Village Hall, Headley Village Hall, Headley, GU35 8LJ
Headley Village Spring Show

Churt Horticultural and Produce Society Spring Show
2026-04-11 14:30 - 16:00 | Churt Village Hall, Crossways, Churt, GU10 2JA, United Kingdom
SPRING SHOW – EXHIBITION OF MEMBERS’ FLORAL ART, VEGETABLES AND HOME INDUSTRIES. TEA & CAKE STALL AND RAFFLE

Illustrated talk: ‘Gardens from Near and Far’ by David Moon
2026-04-13 14:30 - 16:00 | Memorial Hall, West Moors, 231 Station Road, West Moors, Ferndown, BH22 0HZ, United Kingdom
West Moors Horticultural Society illustrated talk with refreshments. Non-members are welcome, entry £3.00. Or become a member for £5.00. We do hope you will join us at West Moors Memorial Hall.

Highcliffe Horticultural Society
2026-04-13 19:00 - 21:00 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Highcliffe BH23 5AA, Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe, BH23 5LD, United Kingdom
Talk by Micky Little entitled ‘Summer Flowering Bulbs: The Living Jigsaw’. Refreshments, plant sales and raffle. Non-members £3.

Talk by Gillian Taylor - 'More colour, less work'
2026-04-14 07:30 - 21:00 | PRIVETT VILLAGE HALL, Fawley Lane, Privett, GU34 3NU
Join us at Privett Village hall for an evening with Gillian Taylor – entry free for members of Froxfield & Privett Garden Club, guests are welcome to join us £3 per person, refreshments included.

The History of Allotments
2026-04-15 19:15 - 21:30 | Sandhurst Community hall, Yorktown Rd, Sandhurst, GU47 9BJ., United Kingdom
Talk by Judy Hill

The Thin Brown Line – understanding your Decomposers
2026-04-15 19:30 - 21:30 | St Saviors Church Hall, Brockenhurst, Wilverley Rd, Brockenhurst, SO42 7SP
Illustrated talk by Pauline Weeks on understanding the decomposers in your garden.
Non members welcome entrance fee £5

BOGOF Plants: Buy one get one free
2026-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Wallops Parish Hall, Salisbury Hill, Middle Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 8EG, United Kingdom
Claire Mitchell, The Garden Editor, will give a talk about the wonder of plants that have two or more seasons of interest. Where space or budgets are tight, plants that are more than one hit wonders are winners. She will introduce us to some hidden gems of the plant world, for shade or sun, clay or sandy soils, and supply tips for those tricky spots, without costing the earth.
Non-members welcome. Entry £4 on the door to include a glass of wine.
Please bring cash for the Raffle.

Hardy Plant Society, Hampshire Group – My National Plant Collections – Asclepias, Calycanthus, Roscoea and Rubus – Speaker Barry Clarke
2026-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 | St Boniface Church Centre, Chandlers Ford, Hursley Rd, Chandlers Ford, SO53 2FT, United Kingdom
Barry is a passionate horticulturalist and botanist, and has been interested and involved in collecting and conserving plants for over 20 years. He started with a small nursery on the Isle of Wight and then joined the Hillier Gardens, where he is now the botanist and plant records officer.
Away from work he manages 5 National Plant Collections (4 will be on display at the meeting) of his own and has been a collection holder and Plant Heritage member since 2004. His plants are grown within his garden at home and a small woodland close by. He has promised to bring some Plants for Sale too.

TUPPENNY BARN "FROM MARCHING TO MULCHING"
2026-04-22 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
Hear about the Charity and it’s wonderful work, with a brief historic overview and more on their current charitable activities. They have 6 green therapy projects which have horticulture at their core. Maggie Haynes will present a therapeutic gardening expeience.

Beaulieu and District Gardening Club
2026-04-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Beaulieu Village Hall, High Street, Beaulieu, SO42 7YA
Talk by Casper Todd , head gardener at Lepe House, on the development of their gardens. Followed by a visit to Lepe House gardens the next day.

British Alstroemeria & the UK Flower Industry
2026-04-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Emsworth Community Centre, North St, Emsworth, PO10 7DD
Ben Cross, from Crosslands Flower Nursery in Walberton near Arundel, will talk about his mission to challenge the UK’s dependence on imported flowers and to promote British grown Alstroemeria.
£5 for none members, free for members
Ben will bring fresh bunches of his alstroemeria for sale at just £3 a bunch (CASH ONLY)
raffle and refreshments £1

Beaulieu and District Gardening Club
2026-04-24 10:30 - 12:30 | Lepe House
Guided visit to Lepe House Gardens including refreshments.
RSVP to Lesley-Anne Kerr ( lapkerr@gmail.com)
