Well Spring is here….if it would only stop raining. My waterbutts are overflowing and have been emptied twice already over the winter. But following another mild winter everything is flowering early but nature is out of our hands… just gotta go with the flow. My grass could do with a high cut but it’s so…
Well as 2023 comes to an end….. what do I have planned for 2024?? I’ll mention my next NGS opening in my February blog #watchthisspace in the mean time….. The weather has a impact on how our gardens grow ever changing not just through the seasons but the unpredictability of what the seasons will bring.…
After a 3 year break and a pandemic behind us I opened my garden on Sunday 29th May 2022 for the National Garden Scheme Yorkshire…. Unsure who or how many would visit… but there was no need to wonder for very long as the visitors arrived…. First couple had travelled Wakefield and not visited before.…
Opening my garden for the National Garden Scheme. I bet your garden is ‘all done’ and ready for your National garden scheme open garden event people say to me. Those who ‘do’ their gardens know that gardens are never ‘finished’ the continue to grow and evolve every year. It’s 3 years since I last opened…
I’m sure everyone is glad this year is nearing an end. Gardens have been a bit hit and miss this summer with the very cold April that put the gardens back a month and the mixed weather but never the less I’m sure we all enjoyed them the best we could. Autumn is certainly here…
Well what an interesting year its been for us all and last month I was getting excited about my NGS open garden event next May. I filled in the entry form online but a few weeks later and after some serious thought I have decided to pull out. #Covid19 has scuppered lots of fundraising events…
Abeit the weather was a bit on the wild side but it didn’t stop the visitors coming. Some returning from my 1st NGS open garden event in 2017. A very enjoyable was had by all including myself and all the volunteers and stall holders. Supporting the event were Selby Beekeepers, Pricklington Palace Hedgehog rescue, St.…
The year is flying by and what a super summer we are having….. and what should drop in my email inbox but the garden registration for 2019. So without hesitation I have just completed the for my Rosemary Cottage NGS Open Day 2019. Following such a success in 2017 I was in need of a rest…
2 years in the planning and the day Arrived…. Sunday 28th May 2017 Wow what a day…….279 visitors + 10 children and 2 small dogs! came from all corners of Yorkshire it exceeded my expectations…….after lots of organising, volunteers, a couple of local charity publicity stalls, publicity, 80m of yellow bunting 100 yellow balloons, chairs…