More Changes at Goltho

It has been a busy week this week, we have 'tidied' up the entrance area by putting down some more gravel and some pots. In September we will finish this off by continuing the gravel and putting in a Thyme area.

We had another Charity Day on Sunday for the National Garden Scheme, again it was a very successful day with about 100 visitors to the garden. The weather was perfect - warm, sunny and not a breathe of wind, the garden looked absolutely lovely.

We have started a new bed in the car park to put a tree and some shrubs in for shade and to break up the hugh area. We hired a mechanical breaker, but once we got started the concrete was so thick and hard it isnow smaller than we had first thought. Unfortunately we did not get it finished so had to 'park' our transit van in the hole to stop anybody driving in it.

As it is a Bank Holiday this week and then we have a coach party in Tuesday we have no days off - no rest for the wicked!!

Pots of Thyme

It has been a busy week here at Goltho, but not with visitors. The weather has been the main factor with gale force winds and lashings of rain so not even the keenest of gardeners wanted to come and look around the garden. I can not blame them!! We have been busy getting all the planters planted up ready to go out around the garden for the beginning of June after all possiblity of frosts has passed.

A new bed has also been planted up near the Tea Rooms, it is quite shady so good fun choosing a variety of shrubs to go in it, a few we chose were a varigated Sambucus, a lovely dark red Berberis and a new small growing green Cotinus called 'Young Lady' scattered amongst these are Hellebores for late winter interest.

We have a new comer to the Goltho team by the way of Jack a 9 week old poodle puppy - he is soooo cute. Photo to follow.

Chainsaw Sculpting at Goltho

It has been very noisy at Goltho Gardens this weekend as we had a woodturning and chain saw exhibition by local tree surgeon James Kendal and some of his team. This proved to be very popular, plenty of people came to watch and bought some of the products that they had turned or sculpted, we are already thinking of doing it again next year and maybe including some willow weaving and other relevant crafts.

Rachel from Oak PR has been this week to start the filming for the BBC, we are doing a weekly slot on local Radio Lincolnshire this is to compliment our slot on the Sunday Gardening Show with Sue Taylor so will soon be famous ha ha.

Charity Open Day

We had our first charity Open Day for this season on Sunday it was for St Johns Ambulance, but we woke that morning to a really windy and cold day so some disappointment after the lovely hot weather in April. It was a slow start in the morning but we eventually had 140 visitors to the garden and had alot of nice comments with people looking forward to coming back later in the season to see the garden in its full glory. May looks like being a very busy month as we have lots of bookings, but it is raining at this moment in time so can not get the grass cut - ahhh.

We are scouring books and magazines at the moment to get some ideas for the entrance into the garden as it is abit scruffy, so watch this space!!