Bugs are beautiful…. even before they become butterflies. Although gardeners aren’t always keen on caterpillars eating their crops, we do love watching the fluttering colour of butterflies in the Gardens. Eric Carle’s famous book – The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a favourite of ours. Here are some lovely colouring pages and worksheets supplied for free…
You can get your fix of the Garden via our audio guide app, Candide. They helped us create an audio tour and it has pictures! So you can find out about the Gardens and see some of it from the comfort of your phone. Here is a link to our tour. https://candidegardening.com/GB/places/4a33aa4448ace3bdde9d0a3b9510920b Download the free app…
Really gutted we couldn’t do our Alice in Wonderland Easter Egg Hunt this year… Maybe we’ll turn it all upside down and send it through the Looking Glass and do something later in the year…. when things are ‘normal’ again. If you and the littl’uns still have room for bunny and egg based fun, take…
Our beautiful tulips and flowers are blooming away in the Gardens – with only the songbirds to see them. Everyone will be hit hard this year, one way or another. But gardening is always about investing in hope for the future. Although we cannot share our signature displays of tulips and blossoms this year, we…
A few hints and tips from our excellent Gardener’s for the month of April: Things should be moving along pretty quickly now the highlight at the start of the month has to be tulips and with April’s sunshine and showers plants are growing at pace but there are a few things that you can do…
Our Gardens Trust is proud to be an RHS Partner Garden, a supporter of the National Gardens Scheme (and their nursing charities) and of the WGFA (Womens Farm and Gardens Association). All three organisations are doing imaginative and interesting things while closed to the public. Although most of this years RHS shows either cancelled or…
We had hoped to keep the Gardens open for ‘contactless’ walks and explorations – especially for our younger visitors who like to experience the magic of all the intriguing spaces and easily accessible nature. Until we can do that again, here are some of the inspirational people and ideas who are now sharing on the…
Over the last few years we have been able to invite more and more artists to be inspired by the Gardens. Let’s hope, when all this is over…. we can continue to play host to everyone’s creative spark – whatever age you are. Here are one or two pictures from a variety of activities and…
A second week of lockdown begins – oops no, it’s the third week! It promises to be a sunny week, which means the flowers and grass will be growing apace. Our Gardeners manage a brief rota of getting in the Gardens from time to time to look over things, making sure things are safe and…
In an effort to provide some #mondaymotivation for you, we will be posting Gardener’s tips the first Monday of each month. To catch us all up, we start with March – check back in with us on Easter Monday for tips for April! Spring has sprung and warmer days increase garden tasks but it is…