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Cressing
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Tudor Garden Update - Late Summer 2007 |
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From August
onwards the garden shifts gear and the rapid growth of spring and early summer
begins to slow. However, many wonderful flowers can still be seen including
hollyhock, soapwort and tobacco plants. A range of mint flowers in the Culinary
beds are particularly attractive in now, as are the vivid mauve thistle like
flowers of the cardoon & artichoke.
Fruit and nuts in the orchard and nuttery are well established and the distinctive
looking medlar fruit, in the far right hand corner of the garden, are already
getting their russet brown hue - a foretaste of autumn. Mulberries can also
be seen on the larger tree next to it. Pumpkins, again associated with autumn,
are flowering in the Potager.
The uncut areas of grass and wild flowers, to the right of the Arbour, are
left to encourage wildlife: bees, hoverflies, moths and butterflies thrive
in this type of habitat. In early summer this area is full of wild flowers
making a Flowery Mead. It is cut back periodically throughout the summer.
Our mandrake plant, situated in the Medicinal Border, will re-emerge in autumn.
Through summer, it remains dormant beneath soil level, another quality that
seems to warrant its sinister and magical reputation!
The garden fountain is now turned on at peak times only to reduce evaporation.
However, if you particularly wish to see it running at other times please
ask a member of staff.
William Rallison
Horticulturist
