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This Sunday, 23 April, is the Trust’s first ever Tudor Day,  so volunteers were focused on getting the Gardens ready for this special event. The Companye of Merrie Folke…
Today we were thrilled to show Sally Kington the daffodils in Lime Wood. She surveyed them in 2003, when she was the International Daffodil Registrar, and we think we…
In the winds earlier this week we lost another old tree, not a particularly valued one, fortunately. So it was great to be planting a new one the same…
These iris are a joy to see as another herald of spring, but you have to snap a picture when you see them as the deer love eating them!…
it was a beautiful day for volunteers getting the Gardens ready for the Snowdrop Open Days on 12,16,19 and 23 February.  They worked on filling potholes in the car…
The snowdrops are now popping up everywhere, from the car park and entrance to the kitchen garden and Glade. So, this week volunteers started getting things ready for the…
We can’t change the weather, but we are trying to adapt to it! An early winter job was to put in extra water butts and, needless to say, they…
This week we fanned out around the Gardens catching up on winter jobs: mulching the asparagus and dahlias, pruning and mulching the roses, yet more raking of leaves and…
For the sharp eyed, you will see that we all loved the raspberry ices this week. There are now more raspberries on the canes than there were at the…
After the long dry summer all this rain is welcome and our volunteers have been working hard to make sure we capture more, for future dry spells! It was…