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…
Despite the lack of rain, we have picked, sold and jammed a fantastic plum/greengage/damson crop and the apples are now ripening at pace! There will be lots to celebrate…
What a relief to be able to tend the Gardens without roasting! In the Italian Garden and the walled kitchen garden there is lots of cutting back and deadheading…
The Italian Garden is a riot of colour: irises, roses, alliums, helianthemum and so much more. Elsewhere, foxgloves are coming out; herbs are blooming; fruit and veg are looking…
This week volunteers worked hard to tidy the Gardens ahead of Sunday’s Open Day, removing the weeds so the border colour stands out. The trees are also looking lovely,…
With such gorgeous weather the Gardens are looking beautiful – these peonies are particularly blousy. The Italian garden is looking fresh and colourful, and in the walled kitchen garden…
It was t-shirt weather for gardening this week – pruning, weeding, planting shrubs and potatoes and more tidying. The daffodils are coming out and the leaf buds are beginning…
The snowdrops are still looking lovely, but we also now have the first daffodils – the Tete-a-tete that we planted along the top of the Italian garden and the…
