Photo Gallery Archive

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

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

  • New yew hedges
    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
    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.
    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

  • The Tasting Garden in its early years: beginning to bed in.
  • One of the original Tasting Garden fruit sculpturess
  • The Arboriculturalist’s Shed in the early years of the Tasting Garden
  • Inside The Arboriculturalst’s Shed with all the original contents.
  • The Tasting Garden in the snow.

Other Images

  • Hardy chrysanthemum ‘Clara Curtis’
  • Snowdrops
  • Apple tree in blossom
  • One of the Tasting Garden fruit trees in blossom.
    One of the apple trees in blossom.
  • Scabious in the garden - July Open Day.
    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 first garden.
    Copper Beech tree in the Copper Beech Garden.
  • Gateway through newly renovated walls leading from first garden into The Tasting Garden.
    Gateway through newly renovated walls leading from Copper Beech Garden into The Tasting Garden.