Gardened for You

29/01/2026

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12/11/2025

Our Arboriculture team recently had to cut down a large Pinus contorta tree in the Pinetum which was around 80 years old as unfortunately the crown was dying off. It had been in poor health for a while due to a fungal decay that affects tree roots.

We decided to retain the stump and have air blasted it to remove the soil around the root plate to beautifully showcase what the tree’s mature roots looked like under soil. It provides a fascinating insight into what’s going on underground!🌳

18/07/2025

For anyone brought up on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 'The Secret Garden', the idea of a garden hidden behind walls is utterly compelling. So when the writer Olivia Laing made her first visit to this house four years ago, she was full of eager anticipation, knowing that both the garden and its garden-designer owner had once been very well-known in the horticultural world. Behind the rose-covered façade of the charming house in a Suffolk village, she discovered an intriguing walled garden, slightly over-grown and with an air of neglect that made it even more thrilling. Tour the garden: https://houseandgardenuk.visitlink.me/PDrfAP

08/07/2025

06/07/2025

This year, DON'T harvest your radishes. Leave them in the ground, let them flower (the flowers are beautiful and bees love them) and then let those flowers fade away and form seed pods. From your single radish, you'll get dozens of radish pods that are unbelievably delicious. (Probably more delicious than radishes.) We've got some great radish pod recipes in the comments and a guide to harvesting these bonus edibles.

08/06/2025

08/06/2025