The Garden Blog
Rained off again!
Yet another wet day here, the hedges have sprung waterfalls, the roads are either ponds or rivers depending on gradient and the garden is a collection of areas of standing water. So after a health and safety check and trimming back the bamboo that had collapsed over the slide it was seed shopping time.
Continue reading >>New Year – New Garden
Well it’s been a while since I have blogged, the reason being that we have been mighty busy at The Ty Glyn Davis Trust’s Walled Garden.
Continue reading >>Storm season is here
November gave us a very gentle start to Autumn, it was in the 20′s temperature wise on our first Grand Plant Sale on the 1st of the month. We had a lovely day in the garden making people happy with plants to take home and we raised £182 in total, which has been spent on putting in new plants in the areas cleared.
Continue reading >>GRAND PLANT SALE!
Just to let all you plantaholics know we are having a GRAND PLANT SALE Sunday 1st November from 1-3pm in the garden. We will be dividing our borders and selling clumps of plants at low prices all monies to the garden. Come along and re-stock your garden with interesting plants at low cost all while supporting a charity. Hope to see you there.
Continue reading >>A very mellow Autumn
What a lovely October we are having, makes up for the wet weather in August. Unfortunately due to a dislocated shoulder I haven’t quite managed to take advantage of the unseasonally good weather! I have had to restrict myself to continuing to paint the metalwork, some of which is in poor condition, I hope I am catching it in time to preserve it.
Continue reading >>Soggy September
Well it has been a bit of a soggy September so far, with the odd glorious day just to remind us how it can be! Not too wet to work though so we have been kept busy as ever in the garden.
Continue reading >>Joyous July
Certainly a wetter month than July last year we have even had enough rain to allow us to work on the beds on the sunny terrace which normally resemble concrete at this time of year.
Continue reading >>Flaming June
What a strange old month June is freezing winds and baking hot days in the garden. Those walls sure can reflect the heat when they want to!
Continue reading >>Whitsuntide Wonderful
The garden is changing so rapidly at the minute with some plants growing 4 inches a week. Even a weekly visit would show you the difference in the garden.
Continue reading >>The ABC’s
That’s Apple blossom, bluebells and cold spell to you! The Apple trees are in full flower, though with the wind blowing the petals off and the cold spell putting the pollinating insects back to bed I’m not sure we are going to have the sort of crop we had last year.
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