We were busy Tree ‘popping’ with our LYRiC (Love your River Cole) trainees in the Parkland last week. It was both a training exercise showing them how the tool worked as well as what could be achieved with it, as well as a chance to do some much needed woodland work. I borrowed the Tree…
Yumi Grindley’s food for our English Hanami blossom picnics has been a feature of the event for a few years. This year she is offering a greater variety of scrumptious Japanese home cooking for you to pre-order. Each is made fresh to order for you, so although there will be some curry and other things…
Yes, even as the national health situation worsens we, at the Gardens, are optimistic enough to be looking to the future and recovery. With the help of both government and lottery funding we are looking for help to keep the Gardens thriving and growing. The 3 posts are below – please click on the links…
We are thrilled to hear that we have received funding from the government’s #CultureRecoveryFund! This will mean that the Gardens Trust will have a level of financial security through the winter to enable us to continue to look after the Gardens and make them open for the pleasure, leisure, health and wellbeing of all our…
In these troubled times the unconscious and conscious connections we make with each other and the urge to help each other out is a real and heartwarming positive. Visits to the Gardens truly do seem to be providing people with the healing moments we all need. Over the last few months children, whether or not…
At last, like some large furry dog coming out of a lake we shake ourselves off after months of uncertainty and get to some planning. In this case particularly for evenings. As a lot of our musical friends are desperately missing somewhere to play, we thought it would be nice for them, and us, if we…