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Well we complained it was too cold and wet….

April 19, 2018

We are keeping our fingers crossed that we will keep this wall-to-wall sunshine for the Open Day on Sunday – but we wouldn’t mind if it were a bit cooler! The plants are probably confused too ….the grass is growing apace, which makes it ...

Ready for the Ramblers

April 14, 2018

Over 300 people came to the Gardens on Saturday 14 April to take part in the Helen Rollason Rural Ramble! The sun shone, the trees were bursting into leaf and the birds were singing and the ramblers set off on routes of 10 or 4 miles on the lanes and path ...

Making a pit fit for a fig

April 5, 2018

With a full day’s sunshine our 20 volunteers had a great day today. New shrubs were planted and Ian managed to successfully move a strawberry tree (Arbutus Unedo), which had grown too large for the Italian garden, to a much more suitable place along one o ...

Graft, but it will be worth it

March 29, 2018

Digging out this new shrub border was not easy, after rain. But we want to put a lovely range of shrubs and trees along this edge of the Gardens. And our happy Stansted Security staff volunteers kept on smiling! Elsewhere, we had volunteers excavating and ...

A really good day…

March 22, 2018

After that second blast of cold weather, it was so nice to welcome new volunteers to our Volunteers Day in sunshine and with the ground workable again! The daffodils are starting to come out and the blossom on the peach and nectarine trees is showing pink ...

Should be cosy….

March 15, 2018

Birds and bugs can now find new homes, thanks to David’s amazing carpentry skills. His beautiful bird and bug boxes are on sale from the Trust – at our next Open Day on April 22 or by contacting us through our enquiries line. Meanwhile volunt ...

Before and after the Beast from the East

March 8, 2018

Back in February, we celebrated the coming of spring, with two fantastic snowdrop open days and lots of visitors. The RSPB joined us and will return later in the season. We thought, then, that it was cold …. …but it got much colder – it& ...

New trees for the Glade

February 22, 2018

February is a time for tree-planting: so we have been planting flowering cherries and an acer near the rill that we think was part of Peto’s Japanese gardens. A golden rain tree is waiting its turn to be planted to replace one lost a while ago. Febr ...

Fingers crossed for more blue skies!

February 15, 2018

The snowdrops are at their best, ready for the Open Day on Sunday 18th. The birds are singing and in the warm areas in the Garden it is possible to dawdle and enjoy the sights, as we did today with visitors from Austria and Switzerland and a more local ga ...

Our gorgeous purple lambs’ tails

February 8, 2018

There was ice on the lily pond and the ground was frozen, but catkins everywhere this month have reminded us spring is on its way, albeit perhaps a bit arrested by this cold snap. Our purple hazel catkins were a picture. It was difficult to see that the c ...

Snowdrops are such a welcome sight

February 1, 2018

Our main snowdrop area is at the front of the gardens, but they are also looking stunning in the walled garden and in many other areas, such as here under the trees at the top of the glade. Cleaning/touching up the painting on Daisy’s and the Archiv ...

Spring cleaning starts….

January 25, 2018

The sun was shining, there was no further wind damage and the snowdrops were starting to come out, so it felt like early Spring! The moss on the balustrading looks beautiful but can lead to more water damage to the stone, so we have started to remove it. ...