A grey squirrel with attitude has sabotage in mind for our bulb planting. Time for an interlude, a mulberry gin, and a rainbow and unicorn day-dream.
Jane Shaw New Place Gardens7,000 spring bulbs are delivered, the weather continues to baffle and time flirts back an hour. Halloween ghouls whisk dahlias to a chilly oblivion and our new apprentice drives himself around the bend.
Jane Shaw New Place GardensDusk creeps in earlier-and-earlier, leaves turn colour minute-by-minute. September - a month of change, harvesting and clearing.
Jane Shaw New Place GardensThe rains return, a heaven sent pitter-patter-pitter-downpour that restores the beige lawn at Shakespeare's New Place to various shades of green.
Jane Shaw New Place GardensA blog in recognition of the 160th birthday of the Trust's first female gardener, Ellen Ann Willmott, a splendid horticulturalist who shaped the gardens at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Annamaria Vass Gardens juliet filesA fiery globe flings heat over our nation, our towns, villages, and grasslands… wastelands. There are murmurings of hose pipe bans, while many, not all, dream of England’s young football squad winning the Fifa World Cup, Andy Murray returning to Wimbledon
Jane Shaw New Place GardensThe heatwave continues. It sucks juices out of the earth, reaches temperatures that break meteorological records held since the year of 1910. Hot. Gritty. Dry. The mortar of the earth — Split-ting. Not unlike people the roots of some plants are withered a
Jane Shaw New Place GardensTake a stroll around the beautiful gardens at Shakespeare's New Place and find out what Jane and the team have been up to this spring
Jane Shaw New Place GardensAn auspicious fume-filled day dawns. Two 'beasts' create havoc before a soggy deluge and the rise of the earthworm. Unusual 'artwork' is plucked into being on the Birthplace lawn...
New Place GardensBertie Smith took a trip to Morocco with REEP (the Religions & Environment Education Programme) to learn about the several different kinds of gardens there, least of all the Anglo-Moroccan Shakespeare Garden in Marrakech.
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