Category: Blog

  • Guest Post: Forest of Flowers

    With foreword by Helmsley Walled Garden: “Sourcing products for our Garden Shop is very exciting. We try to source from...

  • Gardening as a form of therapy

    Gardening is a therapy for all of us. That’s a bold statement, isn’t it? Research conducted by The Mental Health...

  • March 2023 – open doors again

    Somehow or other it is March and the garden is open to visitors. For all January seemed to go on...

  • February 2023 – Almost opening

    We are just a week away from opening on 1st March. Our volunteers are back and working away cutting back...

  • January 2023 – Time for hibernation

    Here we are again at the start of a new year, wondering what it will bring and perhaps thinking that...

  • December 2022 – The end of the year

    Somehow or other here we are in December again. It has been a roller coaster of a year, incredibly busy...

  • October 2022 – Britain in Bloom

    This month is when June in her capacity as a judge goes to London to take part in the annual...

  • September 2022 – Harvest time

    It’s September and we are deep into the harvest season of all the produce we’ve grown over the year. From...

  • August – Sit back and enjoy the colour

    Thinking on from my last blog about enjoying what the garden has to offer I took myself for a walk...

  • July – Trying to catch up

    I don’t know if one can try to catch up ferociously, but if it is indeed a thing then I...

  • June – Laburnum and iris

    The Iris Border has really started to bloom this week, the peonies are opening up and (the bit I am...

  • May – Labyrinths in the garden and beyond

    I did two things this week that I don’t do often enough. I walked round the garden first thing and,...