Learn about bats and how to welcome them to you Garden.. with BrumBats. As well as our regular half term activities we welcome, BrumBats, the Birmingham and Black Country volunteer group, who support bat care and conservation. They will be around to talk about and show us the wonders of our night time fliers. This…
Well it’s National Poetry day… There really is no other choice for a poem in the Gardens today. Keats definitely had it right autumn is ‘conspiring…. to bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees’ and more. For your delectation then: Colonel Vaughan apples (1600) and Keats’ poem To Autumn SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close…
Fresh as fresh as fresh… Our harvest apple celebration is fast approaching. It’s been positively Isaac-Newton-like here with apples from our heritage orchard plopping, heavy and ripe, to the ground. This year, as well as all the lovely entertainment, displays and activities, we want to invite visitors to get some really fresh tastes from our,and their own, gardens.…
Citywide Pokemon community event Today in 20 cultural venues, from mosques to cafe and from community centres to gardens a few extra lures were planted to encourage pokemon players to explore , not just new places, but new people. Castle Bromwich was the furthest east of the venues, away from the walkable clump of stops…
De Wit make garden tools – of consummate beauty Two members of the amazingly talented garden toolmakers, de Wit, made a flying and unexpected visit to the Gardens today. My, we’re all of aglitter and aglow! Sietse and Derk-klass de Wit had just flown in to be part of the GLEE garden show at the NEC,…
Ragdoll Productions spend a day with us A lovely team of people from Ragdoll took over the Archery lawn today. The Stratford based TV production house have produced more than 1,500 internationally acclaimed children’s television programmes aimed at the youngest viewers, including the phenomenally successful, BAFTA-winning Teletubbies. Today they were filming an episode of their latest…
First visit of term for Hallmoor school pupils We were pleased to welcome back Hallmoor school pupils today. A class of pupils comes every Friday to learn gardening skills, cultivate their patch of land and grow vegetables. Before the summer break they had planted, hoe’d and weeded the plot….and today they saw it had all…
All day event – with extra lures Twenty culturally specific organisations, societies and places of worship located around central and inner Birmingham are opening their doors for seven hours of end-to-end Pokémon lures at their own Pokéstops from 10am-5pm, this Saturday 10th September. Visit ’em all and see what else you can find! Pokéstops? Whether…
All over the city this Saturday (Sept 10th) we and other cultural venues will be taking part in a special event where we will be creating extra Pokemon ‘lures’ at our sites; more creatures will be at our Pokéstops . The event has been organised by the StillWalking festival people, who encourage exploring all aspects of…
Green is the colour of plenty. Our vast veg plot – the Batty Langley garden – has been really well tended this year and all the hard work is paying off. This year’s newly planted Globe Artichokes are fattening up, the Courgettes and Squashes are plump green and growing gold (could be another good Pumpkin…