We have been pruning apple trees this week. Not just any old apple trees but the old, gnarled, overgrown, Victorian trees planted in the Walled Garden and at other places on the Estate. Mature trunks! It feels wrong to cut good healthy wood from living trees,...
Spring at last At last the sun is shining and we have warm weather. The winter has passed, and the countryside is dressed in vibrant shades of green, white, blue and pink. Those of us with tender plants and seedlings to worry about, are keeping an eye out on these...
“April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at our feet” Who’s been eating the Bluebells? So it has been a long winter. The rabbits and deer up at the House have been struggling to find food. For weeks the emerging bluebell leaves were being eaten...
