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As Spring Approaches
As Spring approaches, the weather has been tough for plants. However, on 1st January we had five different messengers of Spring out: crocus, hellebores, aconites, snowdrops and daffodils.&n... Read More
NGS Opening 12th June, from 12.30pm
We are open on Saturday 12th June from 12.30 – 5.00 pm in aid of the NGS which sends all our takings to a group of charities, including Marie Curie, Macmillan nurses and Parkinson’s UK. This o... Read More
Sunday 2nd May 2021, Special Garden Opening
Please join us on Sunday 2nd May, 2.00-6.00pm, for a special garden opening to help raise funds for Bombay Teen Challenge (BTC), a very special charity that Jenny and I have supported for some 20 year... Read More
Join us here on Sunday!
We are thrilled with the way Wildcat has ignored its name and settled in the garden. It is an almost perfect white and beautiful form. It is just beginning to flower as Easter approaches. Others... Read More
Spring is sprung!
With 2020 being a write-off for opening gardens, here we are a week away from April and we’re remaining optimistic for welcoming visitors soon. Last year, making the most of lockdowns, we ... Read More
Beautiful blossom!
Silence has not meant inactivity. We have been very busy in the garden and have had a Spring and early Summer of almost unimpaired and very beautiful blossom. The only plants to have suffe... Read More
A new year …
There was a lovely verse in a poem by Shelley which started: Summer was dead and Autumn was expiring, And infant Winter laughed upon the land All cloudlessly and cold This year’s infant Winter has h... Read More
NGS Garden Opening – Saturday 8th June, 12:30pm
I promised a number of people that I would write a blog to give some indication as to what will be flowering for our third NGS Garden Opening on Saturday, 8th June. The irises this year are better ... Read More