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
Angel’s Fishing Rod – July 2019
School Visit – June 2019
Tree identification
Wild flower No. 5 waiting to be identified & activity table behind
Viburnum – Autumn 2018
Viburnum – Autumn 2018
Viburnum – Autumn 2018
Gardening Work Sessions
Gardening work session
Gardening work session
Visit by students from the University of York – 11 May 2018
Cleaning the contents of the work shed
Discussing maintaining the garden
Looking at the garden in its glory days
Removing years of cobwebs
Open Day – 24 March 2018
Tasting Garden on Open Day 24 March 2018
Ceremony for official re-opening of the Storey Gardens – 24 March 2018
Mayor of Lancaster opening Tasting Garden 24 March 2018
Arboriculturist’s Work Shed with Lancaster Castle behind.
Relaxing in The Tasting Garden
The refreshment tables ready for the visitors
Waiting for the visitors
New path to The Tasting Garden
Looking out of the Arboriculturist’s Work Shed.
Hellebores
This way to the Storey Gardens
A host of golden daffodils
The cut ribbon
Two canine visitors enjoying the Storey Gardens
Awaiting the mayor
How the Lancashire Environmental Fund (LEF) grant was spent
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
Tasting Garden in its early years: beginning to bed in.
One of the original Tasting Garden fruits
The Aboriculturalist’s Shed in the early years of the Tasting Garden
Inside The Arboriculturalst’s Shed with all the original contents.
Tasting Garden in the snow.
Other Images
Hardy chrysanthemum ‘Clara Curtis’
Snowdrops
Apple tree in blossom
Scabious in the garden – July Open Day.
Bee on eryngium giganteum – July 2017
Helenium – July 2017
Poppy – papaver somniferum
Plant sale at Open Day, September 2017
Plants for sale – Open Day, September 2017
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
One of the Tasting Garden fruit trees – 20 years old next year and maturing nicely.
Copper Beech tree in the first garden.
Gateway through newly renovated walls leading from first garden into The Tasting Garden.
