January 2021

Despite everything, the Walled Gardeners continue to work in the garden, giving each other plenty of space, mulching all the beds, tackling the long list of maintenance jobs and planning next year (always a cheerful job). Here are some photographs from the past couple of months:

Using flattened tin cans for the roof, Sarah built a new hedgehog house.

The pergola fruit vines had got really tangled over the past couple of summers so, since the pergola lights needed replacing, we took the opportunity to cut every vine free, then re-tie them to their best advantage. And Geoff fitted new lights.

Geoff re-staked all of the trees in the orchard.

Sarah planted two apricot trees (Tom Cot and Early Moorpark) against the old brick wall, to be espaliered as they grow. The photo below shows Caroline and Penny inspecting the new trees.

We have found mysterious tracks across the lawn; Carroll arranged for her contact Gareth to set up a nature camera… we await results!

We had hoped to have a special Snowdrop Celebration event in January, to show off our collection. Never mind - there’s always next year!