WALLED GARDEN BAUMBER
Meet Our
Gardening Team
We would like to introduce to you our new gardening team!
A very warm welcome to Laura our new Head Gardener. Laura is an RHS qualified, very experienced gardener who has come to join us and lead our gardening team. Laura has run her own successful gardening business and brings a multitude of skills and talent with her.
Harry has been with us for a while now and is himself a knowledgeable and enthusiastic member of the gardening staff. RHS trained and a qualified arboriculturist as well as having a keen eye for garden design too.
Robin is a young and enthusiastic man who enjoys gardening. Robin is hoping to go into the RAF and is working in the gardening team while he goes through his application process. You will also find Robin working in the tearoom and behind the bar at weddings.
Nikki has come to us from the Pub industry. She is very keen gardener and is currently redeveloping her own garden.
Nikki is currently doing an apprenticeship here at the Walled Garden Baumber and is very hard working and keen to learn. Nikki has had a passion for gardening since she was a child and has always worked in her own garden as well as gardening for family and friends.
There is always a member of the gardening team around the garden for you to ask any garden related questions and there will be a gardener every Sunday on the plant stall to advise on all the plants, trees and shrubs for sale.
From left to right:
Top: Harry, Robin
Bottom: Nikki, Laura
Jobs for the garden this month
By the Head Gardener
November in the Garden
Now that the clocks have gone back we are having to make the most of the daylight hours at the Walled Garden. We are enjoying the sunsets at the end of the working day, especially when you have the different silhouettes from the trees and shrubs in the garden.
We are busy raking up the vast amount of leaves that fall and putting them into our leaf mould bins ready for mulching back into the garden in 1-2 years’ time.
All of our Dahlias now need to be lifted after the recent frost and snow as they have died back now. So we shall be cutting the dead foliage off and lifting the tubers to put into a dry cool place over Winter to try to avoid them rotting off in the wet cold ground.
The team have fleeced and hessian wrapped all of our Musa bajoo plants that are in the ground to protect them for the Winter months. We have also taken in any remaining tender plants and our potted Echiums into the greenhouse and the cold frame.
Our perennials are dying back now so we are slowly getting through the borders and cutting them down. Shredding all the foliage and putting it into the compost bins ready to mulch with next year.
Pruning of fruit bushes can be done at this time of year as well and you can be taking hardwood cuttings. Its now bare root plant season so it’s a good time to purchase any trees and shrubs and get them into the ground.
We have taken out the three Willow gazebos in front of the tea rooms this week so we have plenty of bundles of willow which you can put straight into the ground so that you can create living structures in the garden like fences, igloos, gazebos, tunnels for the children. This has made the tearooms lighter and given a better view when you look out over the garden.
Going to go and have a look through the seed catalogue now to start ordering for next year’s sowing.
Enjoy getting ready for Winter in your garden and keep the kettle on if you are working out in the frosty weather.
Happy gardening
November
