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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close-bosom friend of the maturing sun.   ( To Autumn by John Keats)   Jack Frost arrived early this year bringing an early morning mist [...]

Read below for some delicious recipes that will keep you warm during this cold weather! Fresh produce available daily from our Walled Garden potting shed Monday-Sunday 10am till 4pm.   [...]

‘Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint and the soil and sky as canvas’  Elizabeth Murray In the early Summer, at the end of June and [...]

In his sonnet ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ Shakespeare wrote:- ‘Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May!’ However, this year, months of cold wet weather [...]

April would usually see the cold grip of winter break allowing some much needed heat to kickstart the spring growth… not this year we’ve had unseasonably cool weather with the [...]

Strelitzia a tropical perennial plant native to South Africa is often referred to as ‘Bird of Paradise’ because its flower resembles the distinctive crest associated with the exotic bird of [...]

Despite the continuing cold, wet weather, seed sowing is in full swing, the greenhouses so full of seedlings that the gardeners are finding it difficult to make a space! Ed, [...]

Blog 2 - March 27th  March started off with the river levels continuing to drop off from the high water in February. With not many guests out on the river, [...]

After a very destructive off season, with 5 significant storms, which caused considerable damage to our river banks and tracks, we did manage to get fishers on the river for [...]

‘Anyone who thinks gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall, is missing the best part of the whole year: for gardening begins in January with the dream.’ [...]

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December, A magical thing, And sweet to remember: "We are nearer to spring Than we were in September." Oliver Herford, "Hope," [...]

"The earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath [...]

"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed."  ( Robert H Schuller) In The Walled Garden nearly one [...]

"This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer’s last stand." - Sara Baume Not so much a last stand but an ‘on growing’ [...]

Glorious July, flowers bloom, fruit and vegetables ripen, the garden beckons! A giant hare statue, redolent of psychedelic art, stands on sentry duty. He is one of 40 exhibited throughout [...]