Welcome
Solent Fuchsia Club hold regular meetings which are friendly and informal. They are normally held on the first Tuesday of every month (except August), at the United Reformed Church Hall, Osborn Road South, Fareham, Hampshire PO16 7DG. Doors open at 7.00pm and the Solent fuchsia meetings commence at 7.30pm with lectures, question and answer sessions, demonstrations, slides and free use of our library. We hope to encourage and develop your interest in growing fuchsias as pot plants, standards or hardies, and to introduce you to and become familiar with some of the thousands of different fuchsia cultivars. Additional Solent Fuchsia Club meetings are held for the fuchsia growing beginners during the year. Newsletters are produced three times a year. New members are always welcome to join at any of our fuchsia meetings.
We also hold an annual Fuchsia show which gives all Solent Fuchsia Club members the opportunity to display their fuchsia plants. Each entry class has a trophy that is awarded, which includes the prestigious honour of the 'Best Exhibit In Show'. A write up of the most recent Fuchsia show and the results gives an idea of what we are about.
Visits
For Solent Fuchsia Club members we have visits to nurseries, coach outings to places of horticultural interest and other social events.
Affiliated To
Solent Fuchsia Club is affiliated to the British Fuchsia Society (B.F.S.), Hampshire Federation of Horticulture Societies (H.F.H.S.), Royal Horticultural Society (R.H.S.) and South of England Fuchsia Fellowship (S.E.F.F.). The Solent Fuchsia Club entered the H.F.H.S. ‘Show of the Year’ annually from 1979 until 2006, when it ceased to operate. During this period we received many Gold Awards and actually won the competition during 1983, 1995 and 1997. We were one of only two societies who supported them throughout their entire twenty-seven years.
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Last Updated 21st July 2010
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