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7 days ago
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Spring warmth, seed sowing and salad supply

It’s finally March! Now that last month’s snowfall and mini-freeze are hopefully behind us, we can join the awakening bees, boxing hares ...

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Feb 1
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Clearing, Pruning, and Preparing

It’s still cold outside but February feels very much like a turning point in the garden. Spring’s imminent arrival is signalled by length...

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Selecting Seeds, Landscape Art and Natural Wellbeing

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Dec 31, 2020
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Selecting Seeds, Landscape Art and Natural Wellbeing

January may well usher in the middle of winter but all around the garden plants are busy growing their roots and shoots...

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Winter Seasonal Interest, Craft Creations & a New Bicycle Rack

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Nov 19, 2020
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Winter Seasonal Interest, Craft Creations & a New Bicycle Rack

Our Garden Gate has been closed for November, to all but essential staff for keeping the garden ticking over, in line with the second loc...

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Lawn Revival, Memorial Bulb Circles for Tim Mountford and a New Tool Store and Covered Project Space

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Oct 17, 2020
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Lawn Revival, Memorial Bulb Circles for Tim Mountford and a New Tool Store and Covered Project Space

This October has been greeted by heavy rains that have rapidly transformed our ever faithful garden once more. The browned and exhausted ...

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Leaf Mould, Last Pickings, and 'Spring Bulb Lasagne'

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Sep 16, 2020
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Leaf Mould, Last Pickings, and 'Spring Bulb Lasagne'

Here at the Garden Gate there’s a typically fresh autumnal chill in the air. As always, it's accompanied by that familiar slightly pungent..

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Watering, Flower Arranging and Meadow Sowing

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Aug 14, 2020
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Watering, Flower Arranging and Meadow Sowing

Now we’re into August, a warm walk around the garden in beautiful sunshine reveals just how much everything is drying out after such a lo...

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Raising the Spirits with Crops and Flowers Aplenty

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Jul 18, 2020
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Raising the Spirits with Crops and Flowers Aplenty

In a year so unlike any other, and thanks to the tremendous hard work of those who have maintained everything so well...

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Apr 17, 2020
2 min

Virtual Spring Open Day

Due to the unprecedented events caused by the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) our Spring Open Day, which was scheduled for Saturday ...

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Jan 1, 2020
2 min

Growth, Planning and Wildlife

What better way to shake off the post- Christmas and New Year lull than to get outside in the January garden?

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Wreath making, Drainage, Air, Light & Hibernation

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Dec 1, 2019
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Wreath making, Drainage, Air, Light & Hibernation

There’s nothing quite like the advent of December to demand that we direct our attention to wreath making. Each year, here at The Garden ...

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Nov 1, 2019
2 min

Falling Leaves, Tulip Planting & Mowing

Colder, darker and wetter, with the first significant frosts all but guaranteed to bite, November is the month in which the deciduous tre...

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Oct 1, 2019
2 min

Replenishing, Raking, and Resting

With sunlight at ever more of a premium, and as the days become colder and wetter, October is largely marked by jobs that begin to tidy aw...

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Fruit Picking, Dahlias, Dividing Perennials and Spring Bulbs

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Sep 1, 2019
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Fruit Picking, Dahlias, Dividing Perennials and Spring Bulbs

As late summer evenings begin to noticeably shorten and the warmth of the sun gently fades, September signals that the garden is winding ...

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Vegetable Harvest, Dried Flowers and Spring Bedding

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Aug 1, 2019
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Vegetable Harvest, Dried Flowers and Spring Bedding

Amidst the late summer heat of August, the garden’s annual cycle of growth is fast reaching full maturity. In the vegetable garden there’...

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Jul 1, 2019
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Echiums, Potatoes and Lilies

Once past the year’s mid-point, the garden’s freshness usually begins to dry out in the full glare of July’s brilliant sunshine and hotte...

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Jun 1, 2019
2 min

Roses and Courgettes

As mid-summer fast approaches, everything in the garden seems to be happening at once during June. Greater sunshine and warmth bring out ...

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May 1, 2019
2 min

Open Day Success and Spectacular Tulips

We were very lucky that a mostly sunny April afternoon enabled us to welcome a bumper crowd to a hugely successful Spring Open Day. It wa...

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Apr 1, 2019
2 min

Frogs and Asparagus

This year’s record high temperatures in February meant that the frogspawn appeared in our pond on the second day of March, almost a whole...

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Mar 1, 2019
1 min

Busy with Spring Jobs

With any luck, spring will arrive around the middle of March, signalled as ever by the cheerful blooms of golden daffodils. Glad of more ...

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