Hill Close Gardens - Snowdrop Weekend

Saturday - Sunday, 18 - 19 February, Snowdrop Display and Garden Visit - Review

Hill Close Gardens, Warwick

A very fleeting visit this morning to a garden in the heart of Warwick I used to supervise, Hill Close, was spent mostly trying to keep up with the little one... It was definitely worth the effort though, and also worth a quick post to try and give a flavour of the event. This years event will be over by the time you read this, but I hope it will inspire you to visit when the gardens open in April, or even book onto a course, all listed on the website at the bottom of the post. Note: most photographs were taken, rapidly this morning. Enjoy:

Tree Follower



I’m not sure how I managed to miss all the tree following activity last year, so I’m relieved that Lucy Corrander has picked up the baton to carry the following forward - at least now I have a second chance to get involved. This post therefore is the first post of mine to focus on a particular tree, and will hopefully be continued throughout 2012 to show how the tree changes, grows, breaks, and shines, amongst all the other fantastic trees at Compton Verney. I’m certain I’ll be writing about other trees and plants too, but do look

Gardening Review – February 7th 2012 Compton Verney

What a fascinating week for gardeners! The weather forecast for last weekend was a confident one for south Warwickshire and much of the UK, therefore last Friday we dispensed a mean amount of salt along the main access routes onto the property, in preparation. The snow
thankfully arrived on time and we arrived back to Compton on Monday morning to a much easier clear up session than expected. Having said that, it did take two of us nearly all day to clean the drives to a decent standard...

Compton Verney Snow, February 2012.