Glorious bugs
At our next Open Day we will celebrate the bugs and other wildlife in the Gardens, with Jono Forgham on hand to lead nature walks and other activities and Essex ...
Kim’s story
At this Sunday’s Open Day, 23 May, we will be remembering the Countess of Warwick’s love of animals and just in time we have put in place an informa ...
Smiling in the rain!
It was wet this week – hurrah! And the risk of frosts is now hopefully gone too. With that and all the hard work of volunteers, by the 23 May Open Day the ...
Prunus Kansan
When the sun has shone, it has been a lovely week. The rains have refreshed things a little and the blossom is beautiful, including this flowering cherry.
There ...
Daffs to brighten our boundary next year
A key job this week was moving daffs, from the kitchen garden where the space is needed for nursery beds, to a boundary border. The hard ground made it tough w ...
The new season’s joy
What a joyous Open Day we had on Sunday – the sun shone all day and the Gardens were looking beautiful, with late daffodils and narcissi and early tulips ...
Re-opening at last!
This week it was all hands on deck to get the Gardens ready for the first visitors of the season. More grass cutting; edge trimming; weeding; sweeping of the tr ...
Spring chores
Volunteers worked hard today, tidying the Gardens ready for the first Open Day of the year on 18 April. Maggie and Lesley cleaned the information boards ready f ...
Making a warm welcome
The Gardens were gorgeous today: almost peak daffodils and violets, and the first of the cowslips and lots of beautiful blossom.
Sam and Roy worked really hard ...
More daffs!
What a lovely day we had at the Gardens this week – spring was definitely in the air. With most volunteers now back and working, spread around the Gardens ...
Daffs are cheering us up
It was a grey and wet day for volunteers this week, but we remained cheerful, buoyed by the sight of daffodils opening up around the Gardens. We have over 30 va ...
More tidying across the Gardens
It is great to see volunteers back, tackling more essential tidying around the Gardens. Weirdly, few leaves came down in the autumn, but they have now. So Valer ...