GARDENING: Search for that Beatles moment in your green space, says Simon Tetlow
Weekend columnist Simon Tetlow is head gardener at Tatton Park in Knutsford
Weekend columnist Simon Tetlow is head gardener at Tatton Park in Knutsford
Winter offers a whole new view of Tatton Park as the holly berries make an appearance
AS July slides into August, a collective sigh goes up at Tatton Park. In many ways August heralds the start of autumn for the gardener.
UPON training to be a gardener, the only wildlife that was mentioned came in three forms - pests, weeds and diseases.
MY job in these 500 or so words is to get you up, out and into the garden. By the time you are reading this it is probably the merry month of May, the hawthorns will be heavy with blossom and a rich freshness of a world reborn will be all around you .. if you care to notice that is.
IT'S often the way that when we go out for the day we jump in our cars and drive out of our lovely county of Cheshire and head elsewhere.
MY mum used to say the best thing my dad ever said to her was on December 22 each year.
'MORE rain more rest', so the saying goes, but with a large part of our 110,000 visitors arriving during the Cheshire monsoon, rest was not an option.
THERE exists a perception that us gardeners have our feet up in the potting shed over winter, listening to the radio and dreaming of summer.
HERE at Tatton, the riot of spring and summer is nearly over and the growth of these few months is basking in the summer sun.
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