In our latest guest blog, Annie Handyside explores rewilding through the lens of her neighbours’ garden, a nature reserve created by Avril and Chris Francome over the past 20 years
Sue Wood is one of our favourite people. A wonderful yoga teacher, she teaches at our mini retreat mornings and our seasonal journeys and is often to be found in the garden’s swimming pond. Here, she writes about some of her experiences of cold Water swimming, and explores why she finds it so compulsive
The snowdrop; a messenger sent to alert us that the darkest moments of winter have passed, and the time from rebirth is coming. An ode to the tiny white flowers and to hope in the darkness of January
We’re thrilled to share a guest blog penned by Tabi Jackson Gee, writer and garden designer (quite a combo!).
Here, Tabi weaves together the threads of poetry and gardens and their powerful and enduring connection. It’s a beautiful read, and concludes with some recommendations from Tabi of instagram accounts to follow for those whose appetites (like mine) are whetted by this beautiful blend.
This is the tale behind the Quinton Old Rectory Fairy Trail that will be opening in the garden in 2020. But it’s also a tale of two Davids.
Following completion of the landscaping work in Quinton Old Rectory Garden back in 2015, the first David spotted an opportunity to create a woodland walk through the trees that surround the perimeter of the garden.
Confession time. I’m not a fan of Halloween. I just don’t get it.
It was less of a thing when I was young (but still a thing – as village kids, we trick or treated, in make-shift outfits, on friends and neighbours with moderate success – a mix of sweets and windfall apples)
I thought I’d take some time to share why we’ve chosen Garden4Good.co.uk as the domain name for our garden website.
Garden4Good is a mantra that took root (the pun entirely deliberate) earlier this year when we decided to formalise our garden’s fundraising activities,