The wonderful summer crops are coming in the glasshouses. Here are our Tomatoes, Basil and some early Aubergines

Suddenly all the hard work and planning of the gardeners becomes apparent. The various decorative pots around every entrance way to the cookery school and gardens burst into flower. To see red bellis perennis, otherwise known as the common daisy, interplanted with sprouting red onions in a window box, reminds us why this place is [...]

We have decided to give some coverage of our Organic veg boxes on this blog.  Each week we will list the contents for anyone who is interested.  Each week we give a little leaflet with our veg box listing what people are getting and what to do with them, along with some simple recipes for [...]

The glasshouses are looking neat and tidy with lots of young seedlings growing away happily in soil that has been enriched with our own organic compost produced here on the farm.

We use sets to grow our onions from, rather than seed. These are small onions grown from seed until they are about 1.5 to 2cm [...]

The Herbaceous Border
Walking through the sky blue metal gates, you are met by a breath-taking display of flowers and foliage created by the two sides of the herbaceous border. The eye is led towards the focal point of the intriguing shell house at the far end. This is a massively ambitious piece of [...]

The Glasshouses
The first thing to hit you as you walk in, apart from the glorious temperature, is the heady smell of sweet peas and flowering herbs, namely coriander and rocket. The herb flowers make an interesting addition to the garden salad that is picked every day for lunch at the Cookery School and the sweet peas are used as [...]

I love this job watching the garden change with the seasons and evolve structurally, small (and not so small) improvements being made all the time. May is threatening to overwhelm me with events so I might concentrate on one topic at a time.
The Potager
In the Potager, or ornamental vegetable garden, our brilliant gardener Eileen has [...]

April is the month of fresh, sharp, new colour, with the dazzling yellow of gorse in the hedgerows and the bright, acid green of emerging leaves set off against blue sky. The more subtle, pink-white of blossom ensures balance in the spectrum is retained. Spring has sprung as they say and all around the gardens are magnificent terracotta [...]

I was thinking that perhaps there wasn’t much to report this month, but how wrong I was! It’s actually quite hard to keep up with all the goings-on. A cold, calm, February day in the gardens reveals activity all around. We’ve finally had a run of dry weather so grass is being cut, borders dug [...]

One of the most magical sights in January is that of the witch hazel flowering in the Pond Garden. The blooms have strange ribbon-like yellow petals, deep burgundy towards their centre, and a delicate, intoxicating scent, appearing long before any sign of a leaf. The yellow is picked up in the new daffodils all around.
This [...]