9th June 2024

Welcome

The Vegetable Garden is springing to life with Potatoes, Spinach. Carrots and Rocket being picked. The Asparagus has been picked for over 6 weeks and is now left to produce its ferns before cutting down in the Autumn. We have picked our first sweet peas and straw placed under the green Strawberries to keep them off the soil.

The Greenhouse is filling with Tomato plants.

Cat Mint is hiding the flowered Iris in the Iris bed, and the Delphiniums are super tall this year.

The Dell has now got its leaf cover and become a shady area with the Foxgloves enjoying these conditions.

We have found Bee Orchid and Heath Spotted Orchid in the Fishponds, but you need to get there before they have been eaten or trampled by the sheep?

The rain has prolonged the life of the Daffodil area, and we are waiting for them to completely die back before cutting them.

The Bog Garden has Water Iris and Zantedeschia in flower and the higher-than-normal water level have encouraged the Water Lilies to migrate to this area.

Hosta and Hemerocallis have benefitted from the wet and are filling the beds beside the stream in the Water Garden.

The rose at the end of the bridge is Pink Bells and the scent is from the Rose de Rescht in the bed beneath the Rose Albertine on the Hall.

The Rose smothering the large Bay Tree in the corner of the West Lawn is Pauls Himalayan Musk and the rose climbing though a tree on the other side of the Moat Is  Wedding Day

Tread carefully on the gravel at the bottom of the West Lawn as the riot of colour is produced by self-seeded plants which will have shallow roots.

Still time to walk through the towering Ox Eye Daisy in the Wild Garden before this area gets its one and only cut of the year.

8 House martins were seen poking into an ant’s nest on the grass in the West Lawn and the Song Thrush has been particularly noisy in the garden. Squirrels have been very active along with the usual culprits of mice and rabbits, but we haven’t seen the Heron for a while?

Stay healthy and good gardening

Lynda Tucker