A Thin Covering of Snow

The gardens have been ringing with the sound of excited children for the last couple of weeks. After paying a visit to Santa, the school groups have been busily working out the answers to the Christmas Gardens Trail Quiz and have been thoroughly enjoying doing so.

This year has been an unusually dry year in this part of the country and the Garden Team have done wonders keeping the plants in good condition by watering and mulching. A couple of the team members are now installing an irrigation system which will make life much easier if we have another dry year in 2012.

The warm November has brought out a few blooms on some of the early flowering Rhododendrons and the hardy fuschias are still showing well, all providing a display of colour during the short daylight hours.

An unexpected overnight fall of snow has added a lovely early Christmas feel to the site and though most of it has now melted it’s a sign that winter has definitely arrived.