“Green winter, white Easter?”

“Green winter, white Easter?”

On New Year’s Day, 2019, I went up to the house to feed our stray cat and came home with three snowdrop flowers. Such a mild start to 2019, I’m sure you’ll agree, but snowdrops flowering on January 1st? Spring is definitely about two or three weeks ahead of this time...
December!!!

December!!!

Suddenly it is December – and the year is rushing to a close. On the 17th of the month, we shall have been the legal owners of Bannockburn House for the first of what we hope will be many years to come. The Big Hoose  Owing to the shorter days, it...
September Gardening Blog

September Gardening Blog

September Song “But it’s a long, long while From May to December And the days grow short When you reach September”   September September is such a special month – it starts warm and golden-green, with the first harvested fields. Apple trees, with...
Our Lavish Victorian Garden Party

Our Lavish Victorian Garden Party

On the 4th and 5th of August our wonderful volunteers organised a superb and greatly successful weekend.  Even the weather was beautiful to go with it.  Hundreds of visitors came to explore the house and gardens over the two days and enjoyed the...
We need you!

We need you!

Walled Gardens, Soft Fruit & Orchards  As most of our followers and supporters know Bannockburn House now belongs to the community. However, it is not just the house we own. We own the main house, outbuildings and 26 acres of grounds. We are...