A wet start to the summer followed by a burst of sunshine created the perfect conditions for our garden’s unwelcome guests: the weeds
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A Summer of Weeds and Hope
Category: Formal Garden Blog
Volunteering Activities in the Formal Garden
Regular visitors to the formal garden in recent summers, will have seen archaeologists digging.
Here is a report on what they found…
Spring has sprung in the formal garden, and our dedicated volunteers have been busy working their magic!
During March, the Wednesday gardening volunteers, with the additional support of the Saturday conservation volunteers added compost and bark to the Long Border, Rose Beds and Top Lawn flower beds in the Formal Garden.
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Winter Gardening
The presence of the Christmas lights limited gardening activities in December, and the weather was against the volunteers in January. However new edging was added to the top lawn, 10 new trees have been planted in shaded areas of the garden where not a lot else would grow, Rhododendrons were trimmed on the path from […]
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Border Edge
Gardening never stops! In November the volunteer gardening group tidied the border on the top lawn and created a new edge.