The garden’s big day was, of course, the 21st June when we were open for the National Gardens Scheme. And a very successful day it was too. We had over 130 visitors, sold LOADS of delicious cakes and good number of plants, listened to a great saxophone quartet and raised nearly £1200. The garden, on …
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Spring 2026………
Way back in February our lovely mimosa was busy heralding the approach of spring although, despite its best efforts, nothing much happened for at least another month. By that time the rocket in the Growing Garden had gone to seed and the dandelions, muscari and comfrey in the wild garden were just getting into their …
Autumn colours
A few colours from the garden – such as my lovely little acer which, when it has dropped its leaves, will be displaying glowing yellow, red tipped stems all through the winter. And then the hydrangea. Apart from one unkillable pink Japanese anemone, this is the only plant which remains from the original garden – …
A weary garden, Guiseppe Penone and The Well Gardened Mind
Tomorrow we will be hosting our late summer jazz-in-the-garden party but I fear that the various heatwaves have taken their toll and we have very little flower left. Ten days ago, as you can see, the cosmos were still flowering as were the penstemon, the antirrhinums, the roses and the geranium Rozannes. Now all that …
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A very overdue update on the 2025 garden
Sunday 22nd June – 12 – 6pm – Garden open for the National Gardens Scheme I am afraid that we have been so focused on getting the Growing Garden next door into shape for the garden opening that my garden has had to take a back seat – if not in care then at least …
100,000 trees and a threaded forest
Sara Vrugt is a Dutch artist who works mainly with embroidery and in the context of nature. Frustrated by our powerlessness to prevent the destruction of forests worldwide she came up with the idea of a huge embroidered forest, a threaded forest. A 4 metre high immensely long (think Bayeux tapestry) embroidery of trees from …