Potting Shed News

Read updates from the formal gardens of Cliveden.

Mark Lamb, Assistant Head Gardener Mark Lamb Assistant Head Gardener
Cliveden pumpkin 2019
Cliveden   Buckinghamshire

Potting Shed News: Portly pumpkins

The pumpkins are ripe and ready for autumn feasts and celebrations. Ruth will be displaying them by the Gift Shop, so do come and marvel at squashes of all shapes and sizes. It is also the start of bedding changeover. Read on for the 2020 spring bedding preview.

Potting Shed News: Portly pumpkins
A topiary bird at Cliveden in Buckinghamshire.
Cliveden   Buckinghamshire

Potting Shed News: Tremendous Topiary

Now is the time to take a walk through the Long Garden to admire the sharp geometric shapes of the topiary. This year it was a real team effort with many of the team cutting the topiary for the first time and doing a fantastic job maintaining the obelisks, spirals and peacocks.

Potting Shed News: Tremendous Topiary
A ball dahlia at Anglesey Abbey
Cliveden   Buckinghamshire

Potting Shed News: Dazzling Dahlias

Dahlias are certainly back in vogue and Cliveden is no exception. We have increasingly used these Mexican flowers on the Forecourt borders and in the Long Garden. Find out how to create your own dazzling borders at home.

Read the latest edition here
A couple looking at a wisteria plant
Cliveden   Buckinghamshire

Potting Shed News: Shades of blue

Throughout the garden bearded irises are starting to flower, wisteria is climbing the brick walls and the beautiful star-shaped camassias are now looking their best.

Read the latest edition here
Meghan Markle leaves Cliveden for Windsor, with her mother, having spent the eve of her wedding in the Cliveden House Hotel on the National Trust’s Cliveden Estate.
Cliveden   Buckinghamshire

Potting Shed News 3 December 2018

2018 was another fantastic year at Cliveden. Re-cap what was happening in the gardens in this edition of Potting Shed News.

Read 3 Dec issue
Cliveden Pansies
Cliveden   Buckinghamshire

Potting Shed News 13 November 2018

We can finally take a break from all the hard work over the last five weeks now that the autumn bedding changeover is complete for another year.

Read 13 Nov issue
Cliveden Long Garden
Cliveden   Buckinghamshire

Potting Shed News: 150th edition special

Our bedding changeover process is well underway with both the semicircle at the southern end of the Parterre and the Long Garden now planted up.

Read 22 October issue
Potting Shed News 5 October 2018
Cliveden   Buckinghamshire

Potting Shed News: Bedding Changeover

The garden team have now begun the biannual task of bedding changeover on the Parterre and in the Long Garden. In total, they'll be planting a staggering 37,350 bedding plants with 14,800 bulbs.

Read 5 October issue
Potting shed news 10 September
Cliveden   Buckinghamshire

Potting Shed News: Last of the summer colour

Despite the heatwave that seemed to last an age, the gardens have remained very colourful, especially our annual bedding displays.

Read 10 September