Images

Cut flower border, vegetable plot (2015)

Cut flower border, vegetable plot (2015)

Imperata red barron (2010), photo courtesy Charles Hawes

Imperata red barron (2010), photo courtesy Charles Hawes

Birch garden from sloping bank garden (2010), photo courtesy Charles Hawes

Birch garden from sloping bank garden (2010), photo courtesy Charles Hawes

Circle of stones (2011)

Circle of stones (2011)

Grasses bank spring (2013)

Grasses bank spring (2013)

Leo the fountain head and rill(2017)

Leo the fountain head and rill

(2017)

Snow!

Snow!

Newly planted parterre (2008)

Newly planted parterre (2008)

Birch garden looking towards sloping bank garden. (2013)

Birch garden looking towards sloping bank garden. (2013)

Rosa ballerina (2010), photo courtesy Charles Hawes

Rosa ballerina (2010), photo courtesy Charles Hawes

Rose border (2010), photo courtesy Charles Hawes

Rose border (2010), photo courtesy Charles Hawes

Grasses in sloping bank garden (2013)

Grasses in sloping bank garden (2013)

Fountain court (2016)

Fountain court (2016)

Will O’Leary cutting garden stone (2017)

Will O’Leary cutting garden stone (2017)

Cutting out the parterre (2006)

Cutting out the parterre (2006)

Parterre (2017)

Parterre (2017)

Sanguashorbia (2013)

Sanguashorbia (2013)

Veg patch (2009)

Veg patch (2009)

Site before the garden was started (2003)

Site before the garden was started (2003)

Sunsetting over Hatterall Hill (2008)

Sunsetting over Hatterall Hill (2008)

Veg patch laid out Spring (2005)

Veg patch laid out Spring (2005)

Starting the restoration of the barn (2004)

Starting the restoration of the barn (2004)

Patio looking towards the new greenhouse (2016)

Patio looking towards the new greenhouse (2016)

Antoinette (2009)

Antoinette (2009)

Spring 2019

Photos of the garden ready for August opening for the National Garden Scheme. 202 visitors over two afternoons and first prize at the Longtown show for our beetroot on 17 August 2019!

Creating the Wild flower meadow September 2019

Cut three time, rake 3 times ! Sow once !

Article in the Sunday Times 5 January 2020 about our new bridge and RIBA award. Photo Richard Stanton

Images from Spring 2020

Images Spring 2021

Arboretum started Spring 2021 on a new site adjacent to the Art & memory field

Birch alley planted in the new Arboretum Spring 2021