The Garden Blog

Autumn colours

Posted on Oct 31, 2014

The Indian summer still lingers in these warm temperatures, but the garden is definitely wearing her autumn coat of many colours now.

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A week of weather!

Posted on Oct 11, 2014

Well autumn is now well and truly here and with it the first storms of the season. I came in on Monday morning to find the woodland walk looked like this:

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Apple Amazing!

Posted on Sep 28, 2014

With great excitement this week we commenced harvesting the first apples. We have dessert and cookers for sale outside the gardener’s cottage and we have picked the crop from our Wellington tree and despatched them to be juiced.

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Planting and Preparing!

Posted on Sep 15, 2014

Here at Ty Glyn Davis Trust’s Walled Garden we are making the most of an Indian Summer! The veg garden is starting to slow down now with the mad bean picking and courgette collecting calming down finally, giving us the time to turn our attention to other projects we have been waiting to do.

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Your Garden Needs YOU!

Posted on Sep 02, 2014

Here at the Ty Glyn Davis Trust’s walled garden we are looking for volunteers. Don’t stop reading now please, imagining hours of double digging in the rain!

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Berry Nice Time

Posted on Aug 31, 2014

Well it seems autumn has come early to Ty Glyn, perhaps the weather this year or perhaps because a walled garden likes to be ahead!

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Summer Blues

Posted on Aug 11, 2014

Firstly a big thanks to both our team and the NGS team for a fantastic NGS Open Garden Day, we had lovely weather and over a hundred visitors all having a lovely time.

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Nearly ready for NGS!

Posted on Jul 26, 2014

Popped into the garden this morning to do a bit more tidying ready for the NGS open day tomorrow. Some plants in the new bed planted by HSBC are now flowering:

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Fantastic French Beans!

Posted on Jul 21, 2014

What a scorcher in the garden today, not that it stopped the visitors having fun. Lots of happy children rolling down the banking and playing on the slide, playground and musical instruments.

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California dreaming!

Posted on Jul 13, 2014

Well summer is well upon us now and the garden is flowering at a pace I can barely keep up with especially in the heat we have had. We recently had a spell of 17 days without rain, but we are now having the odd shower and the vegetable and herb gardens, including the new cut flower bed, are starting to recover.

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