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Some healthy takeaways for intrepid visitors

October 15, 2018

A big thank you to all the visitors who braved the weather to come to the Open Day on Sunday, rounding off a fabulous season at the Gardens. We hope you enjoyed your visit and any fresh vegetables and herbs you bought and look forward to seeing you at the ...

A glorious autumn

October 11, 2018

The michaelmas daisies are looking spectacular and the trees are turning, so we know it is autumn now, despite the continuing warmth in the walled garden and the continuing production of beans and ripening of raspberries. That means there will be vegetabl ...

Heave ho!

September 27, 2018

Our volunteers are not in training for a local tug-of-war competition, but were moving a heavy rock to the stumpery in the Glade! It was a gorgeous day – blue sky and warm from early morning. On arrival I scared off a heron from the Italian garden a ...

Pick of the week

September 20, 2018

These grapes on a pretty vine were revealed today in the Italian Garden when Jane removed the weeds in front of them. They have obviously enjoyed the long hot and dry summer! Today volunteers fanned out across the Gardens, picking up boughs brought down b ...

What a glorious day

September 13, 2018

Today, nineteen volunteers enjoyed getting the Gardens ready for this Sunday’s Apple and Austin Open Day . By the end of the day, the lavender had been bagged and the jam labelled ready for the tombola. The Italian Garden was looking serene in the s ...

A splash of dahlias

September 6, 2018

Dahlias need their own collective noun, so how about this one? Through the drought they were pretty, but now they are revived they look splendid in early autumn sunshine – hasn’t Sam done well! We made great strides today in tidying for the Ap ...

Cuttings galore

August 30, 2018

It’s the time of year for taking cuttings and we’ve stopped counting the number that Roy has managed – lavenders for refreshing or replacing the lavender borders, rosemary for the dividers between the herb garden sections and penstemon f ...

The last picking of mulberries

August 23, 2018

And some reached the bowl too! We have had a really good crop this year, perhaps due to the hot weather, so there will be jam and jelly on the tombola stall this September. The early heavy rains after the drought brought down a stem of the trunk, probably ...

The squashes are on the march

August 9, 2018

The pumpkins are escaping their beds and the squashes are climbing walls and many have already ripened in the heat of July/early August. Normally, we would expect squashes to be ready for our September Open Day, but some will be ripe for sale at next week ...

Even in drought the Gardens look beautiful

July 19, 2018

Visitors from Benfleet this week particularly noticed the splendour of the trees in the Gardens and loved the treehouse. They marvelled at how the volunteers have managed to keep colour in the Italian Garden although it hasn’t rained in months. So f ...

Many hands pull thistles more quickly

July 12, 2018

Pulling out creeping thistles before they seed has the added benefit of weakening their root system and they shouldn’t need further re-pulling for two or three years, we were advised this week by Saffron Walden Wildflower Group. So it was lucky that ...

Keep on smiling!

June 28, 2018

The sun continued to shine (will it ever stop?), as we looked back on the last year and celebrated all we had achieved, at the AGM, followed by the volunteers’ BBQ. Gary cooked the Prior’s Hall sausages and burgers to perfection, the salads we ...