Category: Visitors

  • Some visitor feedback

  • Orchard news

    Visitors are loving our heritage orchard. It’s looking beautiful with the contrast of the still verdant greens with the varied colours of ripening fruit. Sisters Olivia and Amelia enjoyed reading the names of the trees and picking some apples they though looked most delicious. The Red Devils were a favourite. Our apple and pear day…

  • Garden partners

    Members of Stocksbridge Garden Partners group came to help us in the walled garden yesterday. They got stuck into weeding around the horse radish plants in this rather overgrown raised bed and sorted out another containing spearmint too. They also raked up the cut undergrowth from around the apple trees in the orchard, carting it…

  • Thurlstone Rainbows

    The Thurlstone Rainbows group visited the walled garden on Monday evening. Two of our volunteers opened up and welcomed them and the Rainbows spent an hour exploring the garden and doing crafts and parachute games.