We love Potatoes…
Join us for a day of celebration, eating and learning how to grow potatoes. Who doesn’t love a potato? Chips, roast, mashed, baked. What’s your favourite? Perhaps the nation’s favourite…
Mothers’ Day – celebrating Mothers and Mother Nature
Bring your mum to the Gardens on Sunday 15th and celebrate mothers and nurturing nature everywhere. Enjoy the daffodils, cream tea in a box, paper flower crafts, or a magical…
‘Grow it forward’ – the humble spud.
Save the date, we reviving our POTATO DAY. Who doesn’t love the wonderfully versatile spud; chips, roasted, baked or in a salad. But they’re no longer quite ‘as cheap as…
UPDATE Box-ing – not so clever.
UPDATE on the BoxMoth issue Over the last six weeks – aided by some strong and willing corporate volunteers- the Gardening team has finished grubbing out about 40% of our…
Active Conservation and Growing at the Gardens
As well as welcoming active volunteer gardeners to help look after this massive historic space, the Gardens Trust has plenty of other opportunities for you to get involved. Growing and…
head gardener’s comments
Our Members event and AGM yesterday was a beautiful summer’s evening. Unfortunately Denise our Head Gardener, who had planned to do spotlight tour for members, wasn’t able to make i…
#wegrowtogether plants
The sunny weather is again helping the fair weather gardeners amongst us to get out and pot on… It you’re planning a proper weekend out – in the back garden/…
Gardening Tips for May
Gardener’s Tips for May It is now time to give your borders some attention. All the sunshine and showers means the garden should now be at its vibrant best. Remove…
Gardener’s Tips for April
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…
#wegrowtogether: a guide to companion planting
There’s a lot of wisdom out there amongst professional and amateur gardeners. Much folklore and science knowledge handed down from generation to generation. In the post second world war ‘nuke…