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.
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: Robin, Laura
Bottom: Nikki
Jobs for the garden this month
By the Head Gardener
April
What a super sunny start to Spring. Everything here at the Walled garden is beginning to green up and get its leaves. The garden is definitely coming into full growing mode.
Its lovely to see all the bulbs treating us to super colourful displays, we have had the Snowdrops, Fritillary’s, Leucojums, Hyacynths. We still have our Alliums and Camassias to look forward to yet.
It’s a great time to start tidying up your beds and feeding them whilst they are still a little bare looking. Also dividing perennials and taking any basal cuttings from them is still ok at this time.
We are busy sowing our annuals for the tubs and troughs as well as planting out our Sweet peas for Summer colour.
Getting the beds ready for the vegetables is also on our list for this month so that we can start to plant out next month.
Our selling area is filling up fast now providing you with lots of trees, shrubs and perennials for the garden and now is a great time to be planting out new plants, just make sure you keep them well watered until they are a few weeks old.
It’s great to see all the wildlife here at Walled garden Baumber so busy making nests and pairing up. Flying around and gathering the pollen. The lake here is full of wildlife. It’s a real treat to see as we are all working in the garden.
We have been busy this month creating the new Purple border and the Hosta and Fern borders in our slip garden near to our rear gate. It will be nice to see these mature over the coming year.
Happy gardening!
