Some healthy takeaways for intrepid visitors
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 ...
A glorious autumn
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 th ...
Heave ho!
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 – ...
Pick of the week
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 a ...
What a glorious day
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 ba ...
A splash of dahlias
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 ...
Cuttings galore
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 t ...
The last picking of mulberries
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 thi ...
The squashes are on the march
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 expe ...
Even in drought the Gardens look beautiful
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 ha ...
Many hands pull thistles more quickly
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 ...
Keep on smiling!
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&# ...