Have you got your seeds for late summer/autumn sowing?
Time to sow your late summer and autumn vegetables, hardy annuals and biennials. The Trading Centre has a range of Kings Seeds [...]
Plants for Pollinators
I recently met Maureen Little (on a trip to Monet's Garden) author of 'The Little Book of Plants for Pollinators - A Gardeners Guide'. We got chatting all things gardening and horticultural and she mentioned her website https://www.thebeegarden.co.uk/ [...]
Caterpillar Foodplants
Though its lovely to see bees, hoverflies, butterflies and moths coming into our gardens for the nectar, we also need to think about creating habitats that feed the larvae and caterpillars as well. Here are some caterpillar foodplants; we [...]
Instructions for Stewards
Instructions for Stewards
Coastal Plants – Things that work on Hayling
Here are some photos from a garden on Southwood Road. The garden is on the south side of the road and backs on to the beach. It rises up to the top of a shingle dune and then falls [...]
Peter Maunder Garden Competition
Peter Maunder, who died on the 15th October 2001 aged 75, was an inspirational Chairman, of great distinction for 15 years, of The Hampshire Federation of Horticultural Societies and subsequently, and until the very end, a very active President. [...]
New Catalogue
The Trading Centre maintains an online catalogue of current stock. Our suppliers have stopped stocking some items, and we have also added some new stock to our selection. For a full list please see our catalogue. Trading Centre Catalogue [...]
Beat the Peat – Part 2
Can you beat peat - part 2 At the end of January I obtained bags of fresh Melcourt SylvaGrow Multipurpose, Melcourt All-Purpose, and Sylvamix Potting, the latest formulation of New Horizon, Westland with John Innes, Miracle-Gro, B&Q and Homebase [...]
News from Denmans
The News from Denmans Gardens January 2023 / Issue 0032 Anyone who thinks that gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year. For gardening begins in January with [...]
Beat the Peat – Part 1
After years of campaigning by environmentalists, and careful public consultation, Defra announced that the retail sale of peat will be banned by 2024. This is good news for the planet; peatlands in their natural state act as carbon sinks [...]