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,...