Why we are objecting to the Hotel’s latest planning application (marquee)
Being welcoming and getting on with everyone is a core value for us at the Gardens Trust. So it’s unusual for us to speak out publicly about our neighbours. The…
Box-ing – not so clever.
It’s not just the drought that’s making the gardens look very dry and brown this year. You’ll notice that much of our 600 metres of box hedging and topiary is…
Green Flag Award 2025
Green Flag Award 2025 Castle Bromwich Historic Gardens are celebrating receiving a prestigious Green Flag Award for the Parkland. Castle Bromwich Historic Parkland has achieved the coveted Green Flag Award…
Digbeth Dining Club
We were thrilled to welcome Digbeth Dining Club for the first of two summer visits here at the Gardens on Sunday, June 8th! The event is full of delicious street…
Seeking Trustees… 2025
Castle Bromwich Hall and Gardens Trust (Castle Bromwich Historic Gardens) is looking to recruit three trustees to join its Board. Growing…. We know a thing or two about that! Last…
International Womens Day 2025
There are already some ‘standout’ women’s names associated with the Gardens here, and many more who should, and could, be celebrated more! Today we’re celebrating two particular women; Edith Holden…
Free compost…’leaf it aaht!’
There is an element of pleasant nostalgia in remembering gently smoking piles of Autumn leaves in the neighbour’s garden, with perhaps a pipe smoking ‘Mr McGregor’ kind of gardener overseeing…
“Oh, that old chestnut”….
Unlike the idiom, we rather like all the ‘repeated’ chestnut trees around the Gardens, Hall and Parkland. There still remain the vestiges of at least two avenues of mature horse…
Latest newsletter 27th June 2024
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Trustee positions vacant (voluntary)
Could you use your skills and experience to support and help grow one of the secret treasures of the West Midlands? We look after 40 acres of sublime 18th century…