The Garden Blog
Garden closed for part of today
There may be some disruption to the garden today as weather permitting we are going to have to reduce the height of the willow tree at the walled garden entrance.
Continue reading >>Blossom and Bluebells
What a glorious few weeks in the garden, though I don’t think we will be too sad at the predicted end of the dry spell as the watering has begun!
Continue reading >>Garden closed today
Sorry, but the garden is going to be closed at least for this morning as we have a dangerous tree to take down. It’s amazing what you find when you clear out laurel! We will be up and running tomorrow again as usual though. We are losing a self-set sycamore with an enormous hole in the base of it, no pruning could save this tree.
Continue reading >>Open for business again
A big thankyou to Paul Toft tree services for a spectacularly precise felling of a dangerous tree which avoided the baby conifers which we wanted to keep
Continue reading >>Spring is marching on!
Well after a huge effort we are making some progress with our winter jobs list, if not quite as quickly as we would have liked! The soft fruit is now pruned and we are well into winter pruning on the apple orchard. If we could just get a non windy day we would be up the ladder doing the tops of them!
Continue reading >>Awesome or Awful August?
Can’t quite decide about August, some glorious days, but quite a lot of the wet stuff too! Still at least it meant less watering and the ability to work the ground up on the terrace beds occasionally as they weren’t like concrete all summer.
Continue reading >>More tree works!
Hello all just a short note to say the garden will be closed tomorrow (Tuesday) and possibly Wednesday due to much needed tree works. Thankyou for your patience and we will be up and running again soon.
Continue reading >>Winter isn’t long enough!
Yes you heard me, winter isn’t long enough! Why? Because we have not got through our list of jobs put off as ‘winter jobs’ in the garden! We are still pruning, and removing and replanting.
Continue reading >>Happy New Year
Sorry for the time it has taken me to write this! Between Christmas germs, the event itself and all the work we have been doing it’s taken a while!
Continue reading >>Busy!Busy!Busy! November
I know we are supposed to be putting the garden to bed at the minute, but it hasn’t stopped growing yet so we haven’t stopped working! The Dahlias are only just starting to stop flowering, the weeds are still growing and the few things that have begun to die back have just shown us the weeds they were hiding!
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