Volunteers

On a cold (and slightly showery) day, volunteers kept warm working hard clearing weeds from the paving, while others started shaping the Portuguese laurel umbrellas in the Italian Garden….
Just in time for this Sunday’s Open Day we have completed replanting the lavender hedge along the edge of the croquet lawn. It was a team task – with…
Very observant visitors to the Gardens today spotted this green butterfly on one of the rose bushes in the kitchen garden and identified it as a Green Hairstreak. It…
It was warm today at the Gardens and visitors enjoyed the full spectrum of spring colour – the pink cherry blossom in the Glade, the red Nandini berries in…
It was so lovely for volunteers working today – and we got a huge amount done, as well as finding time for training sessions on the mower and on…
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…
On a lovely sunny September day, what could be nicer than having the time to tend the roses and edge the bed. The grass has mostly greened up again…
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…