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The mostly dry and sunny weather has enabled gardening volunteers to spend more time working in the gardens. The vulnerable plants have needed watering and the weeds have enjoyed the sunshine. The water butt in the plant sale area had to be refilled twice using a long hosepipe connected to the tap by the Castle Park entrance gate. The ground in front of the bench near the folly in The Tasting Garden was being eroded and becoming muddy during rainy periods. The bench was moved, long grass cut with shears and a trench dug to insert three flagstones. After all the hard work two volunteers tested the returned bench and flagstones. The native daffodils have multiplied and produced glorious displays. Clumps have been thinned out in The Tasting Garden and the excess daffodils replanted in the Copper Beech Garden. All the daffodils and most of the tulips were deadheaded in April to encourage bulb growth for next year. The blue crocus at the entrance to The Tasting Garden have multiplied. Clumps were thinned out and replanted. Violas and pink forget-me-nots have been planted alongside the path into the Copper Beech Garden. The circles around the fruit trees were becoming overgrown. Weeds and grass are being cleared and the strip of grass around the trees cut with shears to help identify the areas to mow. The grass around the path edges and non-wildflower areas has been mown with the push mower. Wildlife sightings and a list of some of the plants in flower during March and April are reported in a separate post on the Nature blog, click here for the details. Below is a photo gallery of some of the work. Click on an image to enlarge.
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