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Yesterday Sue spent an interesting 3/4 hour recording content for an RHS Gardening podcast. It will be available online from March 23rd and has a working title of Wild Lawns, although this will probably have changed by the time it goes out. Sue was asked about how we allow wild flowers to grown in and around our grassy areas, including the wild-flower meadow. I was sitting silently in the other room in… Read More

Concluding our virtual tour of the garden as it was this May. It has been an interesting exercise, not least in the decision making process of what constitutes a ‘good’ picture and what doesn’t – let’s just say we din’t agree every time! Day 10 The wildflower meadow. A little bit of cheating here, as we have included some shots of flowers in our new field, part of which will become a… Read More

The second of what will be three parts of our current virtual tour of the garden. Day 6 We move into the Spooky Forest. Planted many, many years ago by the Forestry Commission as a Christmas tree nursery – if you are good with heights we’ll lend you a saw to cut a ‘tree’ from the tops!! – and never really managed. There’s also some lovely, huge, Douglas Fir at each end,… Read More