The Woodland Trust’s latest post on caring for apple trees is great advice. (Find it here: how to prune apple trees in winter) We’ll be posting the date for our own pruning of fruit espaliers courses shortly, but it’s pruning on a much bigger scale that our gardeners will need to be tackling this coming year.…
Tree Dressing Day:A tree is not just for Christmas, but for … We have over 130 mature trees in the Gardens. Most of which are important enough to have Tree Preservation Orders on them. Caring for them and keeping them in good shape – literally – is a responsibility we are proud to be able…
1760 was a long time ago, especially in flower terms. Plant and garden enthusiasts develop hundreds, if not thousands, of new plant varieties every year. Here at Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens we try to grow plants that would have been familiar to the gardeners up till the mid 18th century. Sometimes, especially with simpler plants…
It’s that time of year again. Can you help us out? Tulips were a ‘really big thing’ for our Gardens’ founders. In the 17th century there was even ‘tulipmania’; massive fortunes were won and lost by enthusiasts and tulip traders. These days we’re a bit more level headed, but we are mad about the beauty of…
It’s been an exceptionally good year for our pumpkin and squash crop. Some went to enliven Halloween, some have been sold to our visitors. Traditionally – with the help of volunteers – we then turn them into delicious soup to sell to our customers in the colder months. This year we’re going a little further.…
shared post …. Inspired? We still have pumpkins for sale on site. Why not make your own pie/soup/roasted seeds http://greensideup.ie/five-things-to-do-with-a-pumpkin-including-soup-pie-roasted-seed-recipes/
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.…
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,…
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…