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…
Although very cold, it was a lovely day for digging and tidying and catching up on each others’ Christmas news! Let’s hope the cold weather persists, as some of…
Levelling and grass seeding the top of the Italian Garden was number one on our long list of garden jobs for the closed season. This week we were also…
Volunteers have been cleaning the roofs of our buildings but the roof of the treehouse needed professional cleaning – from a height! And what a difference it makes –…
On a really hot day our heroic volunteers transformed the paths in the walled kitchen garden, weeding them and then switching to weeding the borders too. Others cut the…
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,…
We have two Robinia pseudoacacia – a Frisia, with white flowers at the top of the Glade and this pretty pink one in the Laburnum Walk. They smell lovely…
