Our work in the garden at Glendurgan

Spring at Glendurgan for us Gardeners means that we can really enjoy the garden at its best. The meadows are in full bloom and the spring flowering shrubs have been and continue to flower their hearts out – it really is a lovely time to enjoy it.

The start of the growing season means that the routine maintenance work has begun to dawn on us. Weeds will start growing, grass will start growing and we will have to keep it all in check. Luckily we mulched really well this winter so our borders have had a delayed start to the weed growth but we will soon be weeding the beds routinely throughout the growing season, keeping them looking smart and ready to show off their exciting plantings. We will keep on the mowing of the lawns around the garden, keeping the grass paths through the meadows neat to show them off and we are not far off thinking about giving our famous maze its annual haircut.

We will do work with plantings, hoping to continue to increase the diversity of this great garden. When planting out this season, we will continue to be extremely cautious to ensure that each new plant goes in with lots of good soil work and is watered in well to help them make it through any dry spells that we may have thrown our way this summer coming.

Now is a great time to take stock of the garden and really think about what we want to do going forward, it is important that we really make use of any time that we have to do that so that we can take the garden forward to great places.

We hope you enjoy the garden as much as we are this spring.

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