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.

Chris and Bill Knight leave the Committee

Chris and Bill Knight have sadly decided to retire from the Guild committee. They have both been members of the committee for many years, having joined the committee back in 2011. Chris later became Vice Chair in 2016, and hosted our committee meetings in their house in Ash Green. This hard decision has been made […]

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 […]

Flower Shows during COVID-19

What a strange time we are living in, but at least gardeners usually have some outside space to be able to spend time in. It is peculiar that when the telephone rings or I receive an email it has always been to cancel a Flower Show or a seeking engagement, fortunately nearly all societies are […]

Using garden fleece

Using garden fleece (so that it actually works) This Spring has been particularly challenging in the garden with a very wet start so that planting was delayed , followed by warm dry days with plummeting night time temperatures. I live in a notorious frost pocket when the weather forecast gives minimum night time temperatures of […]

Welcome to Fiona as our new Secretary

Our prayers for a replacement Secretary for the Guild were answered by Fiona Jackman. At our AGM, Fiona was formally appointed. Fiona has previous experience of working with committees and we are looking forward to working with her over the coming years.

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