Gardening

Reiko returned to the Gardens this month, 28 years on from when she worked with the Creaseys to move the snowdrops to make way for the car park and…
Late May is stunning, with individual flowers to enjoy, making lovely vistas. This Calycanthus is a really cool flower, with its greeny petals and vivid centre, but numerous others…
On a cold (and slightly showery) day, volunteers kept warm working hard clearing weeds from the paving, while others started shaping the Portuguese laurel umbrellas in the Italian Garden….
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…