We were delighted that William Cecil and entourage visited us yesterday. The local villagers cooked up a feast for them and found time to celebrate St George’s day. Visitors…
This Sunday, 23 April, is the Trust’s first ever Tudor Day, so volunteers were focused on getting the Gardens ready for this special event. The Companye of Merrie Folke…
In the winds earlier this week we lost another old tree, not a particularly valued one, fortunately. So it was great to be planting a new one the same…
The snowdrops are now popping up everywhere, from the car park and entrance to the kitchen garden and Glade. So, this week volunteers started getting things ready for the…
This week we fanned out around the Gardens catching up on winter jobs: mulching the asparagus and dahlias, pruning and mulching the roses, yet more raking of leaves and…
After the long dry summer all this rain is welcome and our volunteers have been working hard to make sure we capture more, for future dry spells! It was…
These sternbergia lutea, near the stumpery, are very confusingly known both as the winter daffodil and the autumn crocus! It is lovely to have such a fresh vibrant flower…
Visitors today enjoyed the beautiful day, the trees on the turn and the chance to chat to our volunteers as they weeded, deadheaded, pruned, took cuttings, planted bulbs, turned…