by Sarah Davies | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog, News, This Week in the Garden
With the hosepipe ban coming into force on 5 August for most of the North West of England, here are our tips to help keep your garden going. If you have a lot of containers put them together to make watering easier from a watering can. If buying new plants, make sure...
by Sarah Davies | Jun 20, 2018 | Blog, Flowers, News, This Week in the Garden
It’s British flowers week 19-25 June and we’re celebrating all things native in the garden. After a slow start due to very wet and then very hot weather, we finally have lots of summer blooms on the way meaning we will have fresh bouquets ready to buy as...
by Christine | May 30, 2018 | Blog, Herbs, News, This Week in the Garden
This week our cutting garden is finally coming into full bloom, with the first showing coming from our alliums. Alliums (the family of plants which includes onions and garlic) come in a wide range of colours and sizes and are great for cutting and using both for...
by Christine | Apr 18, 2018 | News, This Week in the Garden
Until just this week, I’m sure we’ve all been fed up by the weather and unable to get onto the garden to start spring tasks! Luckily the sun has finally made an appearance so it’s an ideal time to is to venture outside and appreciate all of the beautiful blossom on... by phil | Mar 9, 2015 | This Week in the Garden
We are in the process of creating some more parking spaces to the front of the house, which means that a lot of shrubs, trees and perennials are being moved. Amongst other things, we have moved two large Viburnum davidii, a large Lilac and a Tibetan Cherry tree which...
by Christine | Feb 13, 2015 | Birds, This Week in the Garden, Wildlife
Next week (February 14th– 21st) is National Nest Box Week. As the number of natural nesting sites in hedges, trees and old buildings has declined, providing artificial nesting sites is very important. I have been out in the garden looking at the various sites that we...