General

The last picking of mulberries

23 August 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…

Many hands pull thistles more quickly

12 July 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…

Keep on smiling!

28 June 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…

Bugs in the Gardens

14 June 2018

We are counting our bugs…come and help us on our Open Day, Sunday 24 June, when we will have help on hand to identify them. This one, on fungi…

Now that’s a tongue!

7 June 2018

Variously called a Devil’s Tongue, Voodoo Lily, Dragon Lily or more properly Dracunculus Vulgaris, this one is very much at home in the Italian Garden! It is an oddity of…

Vegetables galore

31 May 2018

Each week, Steve seems to plant more vegetables and don’t they look great!! Today, it was runner beans, to add to the maize, leeks, onions, chard, lettuce etc etc….

Broad-bodied chasers and blue damselflies

24 May 2018

Although busy with volunteers and a team from GSK and a group of U3A visitors, the Gardens were tranquil today, with hares in the Glade and dragonflies and damselflies…

Our blousy hanky

10 May 2018

The Handkerchief Tree was looking magnificent today, with the hankies blowing in the breeze against a clear blue sky, with the Glade framed with the frothy white of cow…