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Ian LeGros

Ian LeGros Curator RHS Garden Hyde Hall

I joined the Hyde Hall team as an untrained assistant gardener in 1992, was promoted to Garden Superintendent in April 2005 and then to Curator in June 2006. Over the years I have been lucky enough to play a lead role in many of Hyde Hall’s landmark projects including setting out the Farmhouse Garden, the redevelopment of the Queen Mother’s Garden, and the creation of the Millennium Avenue and Wild Wood. Most recently I helped to co-design the new Robinson Garden which was opened in 2007.

  • Date Joined: 12 Jul 2007

Up and buzzing

Posted by Ian LeGros on 29 Jun 2011 at 09:50 AM

The bees at Hyde Hall came through the winter ok, one colony was considerable weaker than the other, but with the lovely warm spring it has more or less managed to catch up.

The colonies have certainly kept us on our toes - they appreciated the warmth of the sun from around mid February to Mid May and foraged well on the Oil Seed Rape. Now is a quiet time for all bees at the moment (June) known to beekeepers as the June gap. July is the usually the peak time for bee forage also unfortunately for swarming. Honey from the Hyde Hall bees should be in the gift shop in July.

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