Links

Useful Links

Here are a few websites you might find useful. If anyone has any other favorites then please let us know and we'll add them to the list.

Village website. You may well have navigated here from the Village website so here is the return link.

(2012 - A new garden in West Dean has just been accepted into the National Gardens Scheme:

I hope you do not mind this e-mail out of the blue so to speak, but I wanted to alert you of the new garden my wife Vanessa and I have created here at Ordnance House in West Dean. Since we moved in last year we have been hard at work creating a completely new garden from a rather tired and unloved plot on land which was formerly an old MOD property.

We have now been invited to join the National Garden Scheme for 2013 and thought your Society may be interested in the garden. We created an NGS garden at Linden Barn in East Stratton, our previous home between 2001 and 2010 – see www.lindenbarn.com. We have supported The National Garden Scheme and the great work they do over a number of years. We are enormously proud to be able to support the NGS again with such a newly created garden. At Linden Barn we welcomed many gardening groups and horticultural societies and enjoyed each visit and hope to open our gates again at our new garden here at Ordnance House to such visits soon.

The story thus far of our new garden and its creation and development is told at www.ordnancehouse.com. If your group would be interested in visiting the garden then do please let me know. Our full details are below.

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). As mentioned on the Home Page we are affiliated to the RHS so have access to members benefits but their website is also a very useful source of information.

The Cottage Garden Society has an interesting website. It is quite cheap to join and, as you might expect, they are a good source of information on cottage garden plants. They also do an annual seed exchange of seed saved by members and you can get some unusual things without paying much for them.

Also fairly local, Porton Garden Centre started as a mainly aquatic fish and plant centre then branched out into pets with a few plants. They have recently greatly enlarged their plant area and now have a very creditable range of good plants including trees and shrubs.

Wilton House Garden Centre is very professionally run with a wide range of everything. In particular, the range of plants is large and they are well looked after. If you can't find what you are looking for here try the nearby Salisbury Garden Centre (formerly Flowerland on the Netherhampton Road). This doesn't have a website but has been included here because it is good and the plants are well looked after.

Dobbies Garden Center at Andover has a good range of plants and gardening sundries. However, as always, check plants you are thinking of buying as their watering can be a bit hit and miss and "container grown" shrubs etc. can turn out to have been recently dug from the ground and potted up. Like all garden Centers these days, they also sell a lot of glitsy bits and bobs.

Hilliers Garden Centre and nursery at Romsey can be a bit on the expensive side but the quality of the plants is superb. It is well worth visiting the Arboretum in Jermyns Lane to see shrubs and trees growing before you buy.

For those interested in growing and showing daffodils and narcissus the following link will be of interest http://www.thedaffodilsociety.com/

We agreed at a past AGM that we would like to support the Project Uganda, horticultural initiative. You may therefore be interested to look at their website at http://www.projectuganda.org.uk/index2.html