by marketing | Dec 17, 2021 | Gardens, Uncategorized, Volunteer Blog
A rest for the gardener Now, at last, the gardener can rest a while in the dark days of winter as the year’s end approaches and the New Year lies on the horizon. Gardens that months ago were brimming with a heavy crop of fruit and vegetables long since harvested, now...
by marketing | Nov 30, 2021 | Gardens, Volunteer Blog
Path progress At last we have begun the arduous task of installing the permanent paths into our ‘Enclosed Garden’. The blousy, overgrown holly hedges have been ‘pollarded’. To do this, we have cut them down to approximately one metre in height and hope that in...
by marketing | Oct 29, 2021 | Gardens, Volunteer Blog
October will soon be over and the leaves on our deciduous trees are changing colour. This is such a brief but special time. As the days shorten the trees don’t have enough sunlight to make food so they begin to shut down for the Winter. They break down the green...
by marketing | Oct 21, 2021 | Gardens, Volunteer Blog
Here’s the latest apiary blog from our head beekeeper Ilona Shilliday: It’s now October and preparations for winter have been underway both inside and outside the hives. Unfortunately one of our smaller colonies died of starvation. Despite reducing...
by marketing | Sep 30, 2021 | Gardens, Volunteer Blog
With the wetter and colder months approaching, we caught up with Margaret Pollock to find out what’s happening in the Bannockburn House garden: We have been lucky with our butterfly population this summer. The hot and relatively dry months have...
by marketing | Sep 7, 2021 | Gardens, Latest News, Volunteer Blog
It has been six months since we started beekeeping at Bannockburn House and here’s Ilona Shilliday to report on our progress: The end of the beekeeping year approaches and with it our first 6 months of beekeeping at Bannockburn House. The honey crop has...
