Standing tall
The Japanese garden now has its pagoda standing tall and the Salix Gracilistyla Mount Aso (Japanese pink pussy willow), magnolias and rhododendrons all have bud ...
Golden in the sunshine
The golden yews were shining today and, turning our thoughts to warmer times to come, we hatched plans to take cuttings so that we can replace those we have had ...
The aconites are ahead of the snowdrops!
“The snowdrops will be perfect” Claire always says in advance of the snowdrop open days and she is always right! Some years we have a few in full fl ...
kosame turns to ooame
It rains a lot in Japan and so they have at least 50 words for different types of rain. This might have been kosame – before it turned to ooame later! Any ...
Swampy sheds her gold
We believe this tree by the fishing lake, beyond the bottom of the Garden, is a marsh cypress (taxodium distichum), also known as a red cypress. That sounds ri ...
Beautiful, if grey
Well, it mostly didn’t rain, and the wood around the Gardens was looking particularly beautiful, shining under the grey skies.
We had a good crew in, so w ...
Growing our stumpery!
We have had this gorgeous stump for a while, but couldn’t move it! It nearly defeated Trevor’s truck, but luckily didn’t so is now installed a ...
Hardy Buddies enjoy the Gardens
The Herts & Essex Buddies were the last group visitors to the Gardens in 2019 and had a brilliant time – it didn’t rain, the trees were still co ...
Precision in action!
Roger’s parks management skills are legendary – and no doubt this leaf mould will fall precisely where wanted!! Leaf mould bins and compost bins wer ...
Moving on the spiders!
It’s nearly Halloween, but we can’t have spiders spoiling our refreshments offer at the last Open Day of the season this Sunday!
The Gardens are loo ...
Engineers as well as gardeners
Our volunteers are a talented bunch – here, John and Stephen are making great progress installing a ramp into the Italian Garden so that volunteers can wh ...
Appley Dapply!
In the dappled shade on a glorious September day, Thelma finished beautifying the jams and jellies today, ready for the Apple Day on Sunday. You might call her ...