Our visit to Colemore House Gardens started with a torrential downpour but fortunately the delightful church was unlocked so we spent a little time inside its calming influence. The clouds soon cleared and the sun shone so we had a very enjoyable saunter around the arboretum and the four acre ... Read more
Beech Village 2019 Show Results
Beech Village Show – Saturday 28thSeptember 2019 A successful show, in spite of the earlier weather conditions, with a good bit of competition. Highest Overall Points – Stoodley Cup Sheila Sorby Finest Flower – The Claughton Crystal Ann Monk Best in Show (Flower) Ann Monk Best in Show (Produce) ... Read more
Beech Gardeners Village Show Saturday 28th September
Organised by Beech Gardeners and open to all Beech Residents and those who participate in the social life of Beech. don't miss this year's show and enter as many classes as you can. Children can enter any class, we had several worthy children's First in Class in last year's show. Please ... Read more
Beech Gardeners 2919 Summer Report
We are halfway through our summer program and the weather has been kind again this year. On Mayday we visited The Vine, watching the speeded-up video of the scaffolding (all 43 miles of it) going up around the great house which was very entertaining, and the displays illustrating ... Read more
Beech Village Show – Saturday 22 September 2018
Once again the Beech Gardeners are organising the Beech Village Show for Saturday 22 September 2018 in the Beech Village Hall at 12.00 noon. There are 38 classes to enter at only 30p per class, ranging from Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables, to Floral Art, Cookery, Hand Crafts, Photography, ... Read more
Beech Gardeners – spring into summer 2018
In April Kathy once again lent her games room to the BGs for a talk by Rosamund Wallinger entitled “Restoring my Gertrude Jekyll 1908 Garden from Dereliction to Glory – and the ups and downs”. 16 people attended, including visitors and new members. Her garden was at Upton Grey and she ... Read more
BGs’ meeting on 7 February – Ray Broughton’s talk on pest and disease-free plants
The Beech Gardeners welcomed Ray who told us this was his 2000th talk - quite an achievement. He started by telling us that the use of milk, salt and vinegar is banned in the EU. He had some useful tips for us:- 1 Don't overcrowd seeds and to help see dark seeds on dark ... Read more
BGs’ Christmas Party 2017
The Beech Gardeners had their party in Kathy's games room at the beginning of December and 15 members attended. Kathy had laid on some beautiful food - a hot table and a cold table. Most of it went in a trice and she was only left with some sausage rolls and mince pies. Well ... Read more
BGs visit Spring Pond near Laverstoke, Whitchurch – September 2017
The Beech Gardeners made another of their outings to Spring Pond garden near Laverstoke, Whitchurch. We had tea and cake as soon as we arrived and were given a potted history of the gardens. It has a fairly young arboretum planted out which we had a look at, and a conservatory with a ... Read more
BGs Visit Hinton Ampner – October 2017
Eight of the Beech Gardeners gathered for an outing to Hinton Ampner on a very sunny early October afternoon. We drove there in 2 cars and walked around the gardens sniffing the roses, admiring the dahlias, and puzzling over what the beautiful shrubs were called. Unfortunately we did not ... Read more