The snowdrops are now popping up everywhere, from the car park and entrance to the kitchen garden and Glade. So, this week volunteers started getting things ready for the…
This week we fanned out around the Gardens catching up on winter jobs: mulching the asparagus and dahlias, pruning and mulching the roses, yet more raking of leaves and…
After the long dry summer all this rain is welcome and our volunteers have been working hard to make sure we capture more, for future dry spells! It was…
Visitors today enjoyed the beautiful day, the trees on the turn and the chance to chat to our volunteers as they weeded, deadheaded, pruned, took cuttings, planted bulbs, turned…
Not a huge amount of work got done today, but Sue and a couple of hardy volunteers did some deadheading as the rain poured down. Meanwhile Steve cleared the…
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…
After that mad heatwave, it was great to be able to get stuff done outside again! Watering particularly vulnerable plants was of course a priority – many of our…
