The snowdrops are everywhere – they have spread and we have helped them along! Yesterday Petra was at the Gardens and set up this lovely photo of snowdrops on…
Neil helped us prune the apples and pears this week. My recollection of his key messages: first cut out dead wood; then take out branches which cross; and finally…
Sue, new volunteer Jo, and Peter took the opportunity of lovely weather and relatively soft soil on Thursday to move these cornus bushes from their nursery bed to the…
A deep frost and gloriously sunny blue skies lifted our spirits at the Gardens today. Sue likes to leave some flowers and dead heads for winter interest and this…
The thing about arboretums is they produce a lot of leaves! Last year the leaves disappeared – we must have had winds just as the leaves were falling? This…
Today the sun shone and it was beautifully warm at the Gardens, so it was a real pleasure to be there, cutting back the geraniums, planting bulbs, raking leaves,…
Looking for unexploded ordnance and finding plant labels, that is the name of this game – Bill has been making steady progress on it and this week Paul and…
This week, we secured this statue in the woods, to tell the story of the Countess’ love of animals. Kim was a baby elephant, which the Countess brought to…
