The Directors and Volunteers of the Guernsey Botanical Trust announced the launch of a Fundraising Campaign to raise £200,000 to build a Visitor and Learning Centre. The members of the Fundraising Committee are Lady Rowland, a Patron of GBT; Hugh Johnson, Director; Andrew Thompson, Director and Raymond Evison OBE, President and Director. Since the start […]
CONTINUE READINGWelcome to our 2017 season, here at the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden, Saumarez Park. The Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden is not fully open until Saturday 1st April, but from Friday 17th March and in time for Mothering Sunday, our popular garden shop ‘La Choppe’ will be open Tuesday–Saturday from 10am–4pm. La Choppe offers an opportunity […]
CONTINUE READINGWe’ve enjoyed a cold, bright and dry week – a perfect time to pot up our Chaumontel pears. This variety is peculiar to the Channel Islands and fascinating further reading about Chaumontel can be enjoyed at Guernsey’s Priaulx Library’s website. The Winter season is an important time for other types of garden maintenance here at […]
CONTINUE READINGThe garden may be quiet, but we’re busy, home and away with our friends and advisors in the UK. Ivan Le Tissier, Garden Administrator, together with Jan, visited Bridport Potato Day at the village hall, organised by a local gardening group. Chris Pennard, a familiar name to VWKG-ers, helped organise a sale of 85 […]
CONTINUE READINGWe’re looking forward to welcoming one and all at our annual Victorian Christmas Garden, here at the Walled Garden, Saumarez Park. On Saturday 10th December, from 11am until 4pm, sparkling lights will light up the glasshouses and our garden will be transformed for Christmas. There’s plenty of entertainment, including a performance by the Ukuladeez at […]
CONTINUE READINGFrom 1st November, the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden will be closed to the public for annual winter maintenance until Saturday 10th December, when we open for our ‘Victorian Christmas’. Details of this event will follow shortly. Despite the walled garden being closed, our garden shop ‘La Choppe’ will be open on Saturdays from 9.30am to […]
CONTINUE READINGFollowing our successful tomato chutney competition in 2015, we would like to encourage more people to enter this year. You will need to register your entry on Saturday 22nd October between 11am and 12 noon at the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden in Saumarez Park, or fill in the entry form and return to jillyt@cwgsy.net […]
CONTINUE READINGThe time has come to close our annual sunflower maze, here at the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden at Saumarez Park. As always, it’s been a lot of fun and we’ve had a wonderful three weeks, meeting lots of different people and seeing familiar faces too. The team at Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden would like to […]
CONTINUE READINGWe know it’s nearly the weekend when ‘Garden Gossip’ drops into our mail box. ‘Mike B’s Mumblings’ feature in this weekly diary, circulated to our Volunteer Gardeners. It’s an interesting and amusing read, chronicling garden conditions and various challenges since our project began ten years ago. If you like the sound of our work and […]
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