What a joy it is to see the changing colours of the new wildflower spiral. It has been a busy week in the walled kitchen garden – picking gooseberries,…
This time of year gardening is about lots of forms of tidying: pruning to get structural bushes into shape, deadheading to leave the new flowers centre stage, the last…
The dahlia border is now a picture, and the first job this week was to do deadheading so it looked its best for visitors! Elsewhere there was weeding to…
The grass is brown and a few plants are suffering, but there colour in the Italian garden, particularly from the Helenium and waterlilies, and in the dahlia border in…
We have been watching and waiting for the wild orchids to flower – and these bee orchids are as stunning as we hoped and the spotted orchids have definitely…
What a tonic it was, to enjoy sunshine and a little warmth in the Italian Garden and the walled kitchen garden this Thursday, after all the rain. The Gardens…
Box tree caterpillars can eat their way through all the leaves on box bushes/trees and there can be 2 or 3 caterpillar hatchings a year. The moths were first…
The laburnum walk is looking fabulous, with cow parsley wafting along the edge of the path. These are common laburnums. Unfortunately the Gardens’ county champion Laburnam Alpinum, which used…
