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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
June writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n Pet memorials<\/strong> \u2013 we have re-established the foxgloves \u2013 planted from seed last year, so we hope they will now self seed<\/p>\n Nut walk<\/strong> \u2013 the hazel is doing well, and we now have plants on both sides using some donated cuttings.\u00a0Stephen 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.\u00a0I have made a little fence from hazel cuttings \u2013 hoping it would be a talking point.<\/p>\n The hops<\/strong> are doing well again \u2013 and will certainly reach the top<\/p>\n There are peaches<\/strong> growing in the greenhouse \u2013 we pollinate by hand.<\/p>\n The colour beds along the A4 wall:<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mulberry-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamhogarthtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRed bed<\/strong>:\u00a0We have planted red weigela and we are trying \u2018red midget\u2019 \u2013 there are cherries on the wall
\nOrange bed<\/strong>: marigolds in flower and we might get a few apricots again
\nYellow bed:<\/strong>\u00a0Verbascum re-established and Sisyrinchum doing well.\u00a0 We have introduced California poppy and we usually get a good crop of plums
\nBlue bed<\/strong>: this is our most successful bed with nigella, nepeta (loved by bees), eryngium and echinops and conference pears on the wall.
\nPurple bed<\/strong>: verbena bonarenis and purple lavender.\u00a0 We get a good crop of greengages
\nPink bed<\/strong> :roses and pink lavender and apples on the wall.
\nMulberry tree<\/strong> looking strong as usual and the mulberry cutting in a pot near the Weston Studio is doing well<\/p>\n