About a dozen of us went to Winkworth near Godalming on a fine but grey day, which brightened up as it went on. We met at the Beech Village Hall and went in 4 cars with our pic-nic lunches. Our tour started at 2.30 and this very nice gentleman called Peter strolled us around for a couple of hours ... Read more
BGs’ 2014 Show photo gallery
Saturday 20th September 2014 Photos by Ann Bishton, Nick Charman and Kevin Lamb The first Beech Village Show for many years was organised by the Beech Gardeners (the BGs). You can find a report on the Show here and a list of all First Prize and Trophy winners here. Click on any image to open ... Read more
BGs’ Summer Show Winners
The BGs Village Show on Saturday 20th September was a resounding success, with 60 individuals entering 187 entries into 32 classes - a brilliant response! Here (left) is Wolfgang Bopp with his winning man-made cake. Helen Lamb read out the list of the winners of all the prize winners, alongside ... Read more
BGs’ Summer Show Report
The BGs' first ever Summer Show was a rip-roaring success and the Hall was crowded with entries and their entrants from 9.0 am until judging started at 10.30 am. The were beautiful roses - surprising after the dreadful storm we had right overhead a couple of nights before. There were magnificent ... Read more
Saturday 20th September – a busy day in Beech!
This coming Saturday, 20th September, is going to be a busy day in Beech. Please come and join in! After dropping off your exhibits for the Show at the Village Hall between 9 and 10.15am, why not drop by St Peter's Church in Wellhouse Road for coffee and refreshments (available ... Read more
BG’s Visit to Fairbanks
We visited Fairbanks, the home of Mr and Mrs Robin Lees on Tuesday 2 September. They are members of the National Gardens Scheme and made us very welcome. The herbaceous borders were wonderful, as you see on the left, and the lawn seemed to go on for miles down the garden. Further down ... Read more
Deadline extended… Beech Village Show
Entries have been flooding in for the Village Show, but if you missed last Friday's deadline, don't despair, it has been extended until the evening of Tuesday 16th September! So there is still time to... Look out your photography, your paintings, get writing your poetry, keep dead-heading your ... Read more
PicNic at Anna’s
We went for a picnic at Anna's house and here are some photos, firstly of Anna (centre), Judy and Sue. Everyone brought their own chairs and picnic and we did have the odd shower. Phil and Wendy decided to stay put in the rain, sheltering under Anna's big acer tree, ... Read more
Hidden Aspects of Alton’s Trees
We ventured out on a guided walk with Alton's Tree Warden, Jim Dickinson, on a lovely evening on 21 July 2014 and started in the Community Centre car park. About 20 of us turned up and Jim started with the enormous weeping willow opposite the Library. He pointed out that the roots of the ... Read more
Visit to the Armstrong Garden
We visited Martin and Sue Armstrong's garden on Kings Hill, Beech on Wednesday evening 2 July, 2014 and it was a beautiful warm, sunny evening. They had laid on wine and nibbles for us and also the most glorious cup cakes - carrot cake flavoured - about 20 of us turned up and scoffed the lot. We ... Read more