The Mulberry Garden in summer
The Hogarth’s House garden is looking wonderful at the moment – do take the chance to visit! It is open every day except Monday 12 noon to 5pm.
June Ford-Crush, one of the three wonderful volunteer gardeners, has provided these notes for the end of May/start of June. If you would like to join the volunteer team the simplest way to find out about the work is to turn up on a Wednesday afternoon and have a chat with the volunteers.
June writes:
Pet memorials – we have re-established the foxgloves – planted from seed last year, so we hope they will now self seed
Nut walk – the hazel is doing well, and we now have plants on both sides using some donated cuttings. Stephen King (from the house staff) has helped me and done a wonderful job of shaping it and we are confident it will meet over the top of the arch this year. I have made a little fence from hazel cuttings – hoping it would be a talking point.
The hops are doing well again – and will certainly reach the top
There are peaches growing in the greenhouse – we pollinate by hand.
The colour beds along the A4 wall:
Red bed: We have planted red weigela and we are trying ‘red midget’ – there are cherries on the wall
Orange bed: marigolds in flower and we might get a few apricots again
Yellow bed: Verbascum re-established and Sisyrinchum doing well. We have introduced California poppy and we usually get a good crop of plums
Blue bed: this is our most successful bed with nigella, nepeta (loved by bees), eryngium and echinops and conference pears on the wall.
Purple bed: verbena bonarenis and purple lavender. We get a good crop of greengages
Pink bed :roses and pink lavender and apples on the wall.
Mulberry tree looking strong as usual and the mulberry cutting in a pot near the Weston Studio is doing well
