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 ...
As good as new
Margaret is doing a fantastic job, painstakingly cleaning up and filling the holes in our mosaic-top tables. The mosaics have a range of lovely designs and were ...
Woodland clearance starts
We now have responsibility for the woodland next to the walled garden – it is very overgrown and uneven underfoot and we expect to find there trash from t ...
Enjoying the queen of games
Croquet was all the rage in the 1860s. The Earl of Essex held lavish croquet parties at Cassiobury House (in Hertfordshire!), launched his own Cassiobury brand ...
Japanese style gardening
Is Steph channelling the Japanese gardeners that Monty Don met, who were removing grass from moss gardens blade by blade? The monks and the rest of the Gardens ...