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Just in time for this Sunday’s Open Day we have completed replanting the lavender hedge along the edge of the croquet lawn. It was a team task – with…
Yellow canary bird roses and pink helianthemums in Peto’s Italian Garden, lush greens everywhere, brilliant orange in the Japanese style garden, purple flowering herbs in the walled kitchen garden…
Very observant visitors to the Gardens today spotted this green butterfly on one of the rose bushes in the kitchen garden and identified it as a Green Hairstreak. It…
It was warm today at the Gardens and visitors enjoyed the full spectrum of spring colour – the pink cherry blossom in the Glade, the red Nandini berries in…
What could be nicer – some early sun and warmth, bumblebees, brimstone and peacock butterflies and some spring gardening? If you fancy joining us as a volunteer, take a…
The Gardens are surprisingly OK, given how much rain we have had! And our volunteers have continued to work, planting trees and shrubs and getting started on the pruning…
It was so lovely for volunteers working today – and we got a huge amount done, as well as finding time for training sessions on the mower and on…
The wildflower spiral is having a late season flourish in time for our last Sunday Open Day, on 19 October. The iconic scarlet oak, crab apples and other trees…