Crocuses flowering February 2020 and February 2021
11 February 2020. Photo by Clive Cox
25 February 2020. Photo by Bridget Cook
17 February 2021. Photo by Hayley Cox
25 February 2021. Photo by Hayley Cox
Planting 4,000 Yellow Crocus Bulbs – 4 October 2019
Holes being dug.
More holes being dug.
Holes being dug in the rain. 4000 bulbs to plant.
The team starting work on planting the bulbs in the holes.
The team planting the crocus bulbs. October 2019
Bulbs being placed in the holes and the turf replaced.
Bulbs sitting in a hole
Heritage Open Day – 14 September 2019
Getting ready for the visitors
Balloons welcome visitors to The Tasting Garden
People enjoying The Tasting Garden.
View of The Tasting Garden. Histories of the fruit varieties attached to the trees.
People Power Display Boards
Two red admiral butterflies visited the garden.
Indian Bean Tree – August 2019
Indian Bean Tree – August 2019
Flower of the Indian Bean Tree – August 2019
Close up of an Indian Bean Tree flower – August 2019
Re-opening the Storey Gardens – 24 March 2018
This way to the Storey Gardens
Tasting Garden on Open Day 24 March 2018
The refreshment tables ready for the visitors
Waiting for the visitors
Awaiting the mayor
Ceremony for official re-opening of the Storey Gardens – 24 March 2018
Roger Mace, Mayor of Lancaster re-opening The Tasting Garden 24 March 2018
The cut ribbon
Arboriculturist’s Work Shed with Lancaster Castle behind.
Relaxing in The Tasting Garden
New path to The Tasting Garden
Looking out of the Arboriculturist’s Work Shed.
Blue hyacinths
Hellebores
A host of golden daffodils
Two canine visitors enjoying the Storey Gardens
How the Lancashire Environmental Fund (LEF) grant was spent – 2017/2018
Part of the Lancashire Environmental Fund grant project: 150 Yew trees waiting to be planted to form a new hedge along the Meeting House Lane wall.
Volunteers helping with the hedge planting: cutting measuring sticks
New handrail installed by specialist contractors, Mortimer Fabrications, as part of the Lancashire Environmental Fund project.
Newly planted yew hedge overlooking Meeting House Lane
Re-laid path to The Tasting Garden. New path for wheelchair access leading up the slope to the right
New disabled access door from the Storey building to the Storey Gardens
Images from the early years
Other Images
Hardy chrysanthemum ‘Clara Curtis’
Snowdrops
Apple tree in blossom
One of the apple trees in blossom.
Scabious in the garden – July Open Day.
Bee on eryngium giganteum – July 2017
Helenium – July 2017
Poppy – papaver somniferum
Open Day – September 2017. Japanese anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’
Open Day – September 2017. Sedum Spectabile ‘Autumn Joy’ (pink), and Verbena Bonariensis (purple)
Open Day – September 2017. Verbena Bonariensis
Copper Beech tree in the Copper Beech Garden.
Gateway through newly renovated walls leading from Copper Beech Garden into The Tasting Garden.