This is what we achieved in the Storey Gardens during June 2023:
- Talking to visitors, giving them information cards and selling plants.
- Wall wiring for the espalier apple trees along a section of the Georgian wall in The Tasting Garden with the help of a volunteer from the Lancaster Men’s Hub.
- General weeding and cutting back plants and shrubs that had flowered. For example clearing the border by the hedge in the Copper Beech garden and cutting back aquilegia and sweet rocket from the borders in The Tasting Garden.
- Potting up and labelling plants for sale, planting out.
- Major reorganisation of the plants in pots by the water tanks.
Wildlife
- Cinnabar moth spotted in the Gardens on the 10 June.
- Speckled wood, red admiral and small tortoiseshell butterflies seen on 21 June.
- Harlequin ladybirds at various stages of their life cycle (larva, pupa and adult)
Plants in flower
| Genista ‘Lydia’ | Peonies | Allium |
| Daylilies | Sea holly | Anthemis Tinctoria EC Buxton |
A volunteer from the Lancaster Men’s Hub wall wiring. Photo by Ruth Standring-Cox. 
Wall wiring and espalier apple tree in The Tasting Garden. Photo by Ruth Standring-Cox. 
Border of forget-me-nots in the Copper Beech garden before being cleared. Photo by Shahar Berger. 
Border in the Copper Beech garden cleared of forget-me-nots. Photo by Shahar Berger. 
Cutdown aquilegia and sweet rocket. Photo by Shahar Berger. 
Cornfield wild flowers in The Tasting Garden. Photo by Bridget Cook. 
Genista Lydia. Photo by Bridget Cook. 
Allium. Photo by Bridget Cook. 
Daylily. Photo by Bridget Cook. 
Bradbourne Black cherries. Photo by Bridget Cook. 
Anthemis Tinctoria EC Buxton. Photo by Bridget Cook. 
Sea holly. Photo by Bridget Cook. 
Harlequin ladybird larva. Photo by Xinmei Sun. 
Harlequin ladybird pupa. Photo by Xinmei Sun. 
Harlequin lady bird. Photo by Xinmei Sun. 
Signs on slates produced by The Bay: A blueprint for Recovery. Photo by Xinmei Sun. 
Bee on peony. Photo by Xinmei Sun. 
Cinnabar moth. Photo by Xinmei Sun.