Visitors from Benfleet this week particularly noticed the splendour of the trees in the Gardens and loved the treehouse. They marvelled at how the volunteers have managed to keep…
Pulling out creeping thistles before they seed has the added benefit of weakening their root system and they shouldn’t need further re-pulling for two or three years, we were…
This Sunday’s Open Day will showcase our vegetables and fruit as well as the nature in the Gardens! The walled kitchen garden is filling up and looking really impressive:…
Each week, Steve seems to plant more vegetables and don’t they look great!! Today, it was runner beans, to add to the maize, leeks, onions, chard, lettuce etc etc….
The Handkerchief Tree was looking magnificent today, with the hankies blowing in the breeze against a clear blue sky, with the Glade framed with the frothy white of cow…
February is a time for tree-planting: so we have been planting flowering cherries and an acer near the rill that we think was part of Peto’s Japanese gardens. A…
