Another little stepping stone
Our next big restoration project will be the balustrading around the lilypond. But while we are putting the plans for that into place and fundraising for it, we ...
Ready for the first Open Day since lockdown
We spent the day getting ready for the Open Day, putting up posters and tape for ensuring safe one-way systems into and out of the Gardens, to Daisy’s and ...
A lovely quiet day
It started with an eye-to-eye with a small, young?, hare (it then then sped off past Daisy’s towards the treehouse). Then I spied a kingfisher zooming awa ...
Veg aplenty
It was so lovely to greet our first visitors to the Gardens since lockdown eased and to have a good selection of veg on offer for them. Our volunteers enjoyed t ...
The battle against box moths
Box tree caterpillars can eat their way through all the leaves on box bushes/trees and there can be 2 or 3 caterpillar hatchings a year. The moths were first re ...
Prepping for wall building
Denny is all set now to rebuild the wall at the back of the kitchen garden with our old bricks, delivered to him by John, Sam and Stephen. It will really tidy u ...
Trims all round this week!
The prunus lusitanica (Portuguese laurel) in the Italian garden were simultaneously trimmed today by Steve, John, Martin and Sam. I don’t think Sue gave m ...
Haircuts for our trees!
Our trees are allowed haircuts even if we are still not! The tree-surgeons were reducing the crown in this large bifurcated red oak at the bottom of the Glade t ...
Next up: pseudo acacias
The trees in the Gardens are looking beautiful and not yet suffering from the drought. We have three or four white and pink Robinia pseudoacacias, which donR ...
Hot, hot, hot
It was 28 degrees at times on Thursday and it felt it!
We had volunteers back working in the Gardens, with a full set of Covid 19 risk mitigation measures in pl ...
A beautiful invasive species!
The Rhododendrons are flowering prolifically in the Japanese garden under development. Our volunteers are progressively cutting them back into shape, so not let ...
Into the pink
Pink roses, lupins and campion are adding to the range of colours in the Italian garden, as well as orange helianthemums and purple alliums. They contrast beaut ...