by Mickle Creative | Jun 14, 2022 | Gardeners' Corner
If you have visited the gardens in the past week or so you’ll have noticed a dramatic change beside the Chapel. The huge leylandii which split in two during Storm Eunice has, I am pleased to report, been felled. It took the tree surgeon team a whole day to take down...
by Mickle Creative | May 21, 2022 | Gardeners' Corner
It has been an incredibly dry, warm spring but as I write, I am very pleased to say that we have steady rainfall. It is desperately needed. Although we try to be as efficient as possible with watering in the last few weeks we have had to resort to using the hose to...
by Mickle Creative | May 10, 2022 | Gardeners' Corner
At this time of year the gardens are truly showing the promise of things to come and everything seems to suddenly go “whoosh” and shoot up. All along the Entrance Path and Wisteria Walk up to Assisi Bridge the colours are building. From the brilliant, jewelled reds,...
by Mickle Creative | Apr 12, 2022 | Gardeners' Corner
This week in the garden, we have been doing our best to make repairs to the grassy areas along the Wisteria Path which suffer from heavy footfall and shade. Where we can we have cordoned off newly sown areas of seed, which has germinated well, but there are other...
by Mickle Creative | Mar 16, 2022 | Gardeners' Corner
The Franciscan Gardens survived Storm Eunice back in February but were not entirely unscathed. Recent visitors will have noticed that the very large leylandii at the rear of the chapel has been cordoned off and some emergency safety work was needed after the storm to...
by Mickle Creative | Feb 24, 2022 | Gardeners' Corner, News
It has been an extremely mild and dry January and February so far. It feels a little as though we have gone from autumn straight into spring. Us gardeners are wary though that the cold and wet of winter must come….we just hope it doesn’t arrive too late in the season...
