(to misquote Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night) There are times when the proximity of the motorway junction is a blessing! Today 2 families chose the Gardens as a halfway house meeting place to see their grandparents/parents/children/grandchildren for the first time since lockdown. One family came from west and east to meet here, another from north and south.…
Kicking your heels post lockdown? Recently graduated or still on furlough? The Gardens have always been dependent on a fantastic band of happy and hardworking volunteers. Lockdown has been hard on many of them who are itching to come back to enjoy the friendship and the beauty of the site. It’s lovely to welcome many…
Summer’s progressing Our sense of time is a bit out of alignment these days – lockdown has meant that many of us have been looking inwards and at our gardens. We’ve been noticing change and growth perhaps more acutely than ever before. But even so .. we lockdown and the beginning of spring and now…
We expect the government and scientific advice to change from time to time and have no doubt that sometimes things we plan or hope to do in the Gardens will have to be changed at the last minute. We would like to share with you some of the basic assumptions and safeguards the Gardens will…
The high street is opening… If that urge to shop is strong, we have some lovely goodies in our shop you may not find elsewhere. …And of course you can feel good about buying from the Gardens because every purchase helps the charity survive for another day to preserve and keep the Gardens open. Jams…
So how does visiting the Gardens now we’re open post Covid lockdown differ from the past? We are still taking advice from with the RHS, other visitor attractions and of course the government about best practice to keep us all safe. We have risk assessed and made changes please bear with us if it things…