July Tips

The best way to encourage petunias, cosmos, tagetes and other summer-bedding plants to flower over a long period is to dead-head them weekly and feed them twice a week with a high-potash tomato fertiliser. Potassium speeds blossom formation and helps plants resist adverse conditions.

Summer Tips

May Sow wallflowers, double daisies, sweet Williams and other biennials on a nursery bed. Transplant them in October where you want them to flower. June Lawns are wonderful wildlife habitats. Leave them longer than usual before cutting to encourage beneficial insects.

April Tips

Divide large and congested clumps of perennial border plants before new shoots lengthen and are easily broken.

March Tips

Divide large and congested clumps of perennial border plants before new shoots lengthen and are easily broken.

Season’s Greetings

The Surrey Guild would like to wish you a festive holiday season, and a happier & safer new year.

Congratulations to Jack Salway

Our Guild member and lecturer, Jack Salway, was the winner of a special award from the judges of the HortAid-20 Gardening Competition held in the summer. The competition was supported by Sutton’s and a panel of well-known judges, kick started Perennial’s emergency COVID-19 appeal. Perennial was the Guild’s nominated charity for this year. The judging […]

The Joy of Daffodils

When I first joined the Horticultural Society I popped into the Spring Show as I was passing. When I saw the flowers I thought to myself “I have daffodils at home, maybe I could exhibit some next year”. So the following Spring I duly went round the garden collecting my blooms, taking a […]

2016 | Vale End – A Surrey Gem

A warm, sunny evening in June found 20 Guild members enjoying John and Daphne Foulsham’s beautiful garden at Vale End, Albury, Surrey. Flanked on one side by a romantic mill pond – more a lake – and steep tree-clad slopes leading to Newlands Corner, its beds, borders, fruit garden and potager held us spellbound. […]

DIG IT

Two of the Guild’s committee, John Negus and Geoff Peach are regular contributors to the programme DigIt which airs on Sunday mornings between 9 a.m. and 12 noon on BBC Surrey & BBC Sussex. They take questions, live on air, on all matters horticultural, who can phone the radio station or email or even text […]