Dead, crossed or poor shape
Neil helped us prune the apples and pears this week. My recollection of his key messages: first cut out dead wood; then take out branches which cross; and final ...
New year, new home
Sue, new volunteer Jo, and Peter took the opportunity of lovely weather and relatively soft soil on Thursday to move these cornus bushes from their nursery bed ...
What a beautiful start to the new year
A deep frost and gloriously sunny blue skies lifted our spirits at the Gardens today. Sue likes to leave some flowers and dead heads for winter interest and thi ...
A fun activity
The wisps weren’t very long to play with this year, but Clare still managed to create a lovely swirly crown for the willows by the rill pond. It was a coo ...
All hands on leaf collecting
The thing about arboretums is they produce a lot of leaves! Last year the leaves disappeared – we must have had winds just as the leaves were falling? Thi ...
Checking out the trees in the Glade
A tree came down recently by the side of the car park and we have lost a few big branches too, so this week Sue was down in the Glade assessing any damage (whil ...
A gorgeous autumn day
Today the sun shone and it was beautifully warm at the Gardens, so it was a real pleasure to be there, cutting back the geraniums, planting bulbs, raking leaves ...
Larking
We get a lot done on volunteer days at the Gardens – and have fun too! This week we spread out around the Gardens in a big push to tidy up and get ready f ...
Onward march
Looking for unexploded ordnance and finding plant labels, that is the name of this game – Bill has been making steady progress on it and this week Paul an ...
An autumn challenge!
We are recruiting – so a challenge for you to consider joining our team and a challenge for us to find you!
At the Gardens this week we enjoyed glorious w ...
Apples for all: wildlife and us
We are having a good year for apples and hope you will come and enjoy them with us, on Sunday, at our Apples and Bees Day. We have a good picking of Bramleys fo ...
A reminder of the Countess’ baby elephant, Kim
This week, we secured this statue in the woods, to tell the story of the Countess’ love of animals. Kim was a baby elephant, which the Countess brought to ...