Right now, a walk around the Gardens is a quite wonderful sensory experience: come quickly to catch the last few azaleas flowering in every shade of yellow, ochre, orange,pink and purple, and which are just as remarkable for their scent as for their colour. Rhododendrons are still in full and gaudy bloom; tree peonies remain blowsy despite the rain, and the perfume of our range of Philadelphus varieties catches you around
many a corner. This is also the time to view our many Deutzias of which we have varieties from Nepal and other Asian countries (see below). 

In the Kitchen Garden, the vegetables are well underway.  Artichokes and strawberries are prolific; peas and mange-touts are ripening fast, and everything else is growing pretty much as you look at it. The herbaceous border is flowering magnificently withnew developments every day. The roses are also in full bloom and smell superb – look out for the old varieties just to the east of the large greenhouse. Many are quite
dangerously thorny but the flowers have fascinating shapes and are often unusual colours.

In common with all other gardeners, we are truly thankful for the recent rain – having said that, the intermittent sunshine that we have at the moment shows everything at its very best and makes a wander round the Gardens an immensely
pleasurable experience.

Don’t miss the moment – come and visit soon!