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A very successful AGM took place at the Millennium Memorial Hall on Saturday 1st December with 52 members in attendance. Members enjoyed a wonderful lunch provided by catering company Seafayre, with entertainment by local Saxophonist Isabel van der Ven. After lunch,...

We are delighted to introduce our new Chairman, Ted Wake.  Ted is an experienced and enthusiastic gardener and has been creating a new garden over the last 15 years where he lives near Winchester.  His horticultural career has included some time at RHS Wisley, as well...

The Hampshire Gardens Trust has recently given a grant of £1,000 towards this very exciting and worthwhile project.  Please read below, an update we have just received from them.   'The Big Grow Project at Minstead is going from strength to strength. Since we started...

On the evening of Monday 30th July, the Friends of Hyde Abbey Garden held their annual open air picnic in the Garden. It was well attended by members who enjoyed a convivial evening and were very pleased to welcome Steve Brine, MP for Winchester and Chandler’s Ford,...

The Trust has given a small grant to the donation fund of the Friends of Dean Garnier Garden for two new stone benches and a metal rose trellis arch, to be installed in the final stage of the Lady Chapel Garden redesign.

The WWII bed has been redesigned, with the box hedge which was lost to blight, being replaced by a new privet hedge.  Gravel has been added and three Repton flower baskets made by Peter Clutterbuck, a local blacksmith.  Particularly apt for the 200th anniversary of...

This year marks the bicentenary of the death of Humphry Repton (1752-1818). Stratton Park (Micheldever) and Herriard Park (south of Basingstoke) were the only two Repton sites in Hampshire. Repton’s trade mark was the ‘Red Book’ which he produced for each client with...

  We still have places left on our Water in Motion Study Day which will take place in the lovely surroundings of Chawton House, home to Jane Austen’s brother Edward Knight and now home to a unique library of early women’s writing. The day will begin at 10.00am with...

In 1985 with a revision in 1995, the Trust produced a Garden Walking Trail for Winchester city centre. The leaflet has been out of print for many years, but the idea has now been revived and is hoped a new one will be available by the end of the year.

This spring (in sunshine and late snow!) the team of urban parks researchers completed a review of the parks of Aldershot and Farnborough (Rushmoor), now published. Our general assessment is that the Rushmoor parks are mostly in good heart. Our findings overall for...