My Garden

Last Wednesday we had jets of ground water blasting out from the turf on Seven Acres, outside the Terrace Cafeteria.  What was going on?  Aeration of the soil.  Why?  Because this area is heavily utilised for events and gets very compacted.  The water table is quite high here too, so sometimes the turf is very soggy.

So why did we do it? We need our trees and turf to grow well in this heavily stressed area, and their health relies on healthy roots and soil.  Wherever turf is failing due to heavy use, or wherever trees are dying back because of compaction and waterlogging, we need a method to restore a natural soil structure without destroying the trees and the surface of the turf

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Children from five local primary schools recently visited RHS Wisley to participate in a day of environmental art, dance and music as part of the 'Bud and Blossom: Inspiring children through music, dance and art' project. The children used the tropical plants in the Glasshouse for inspiration to create fantastic pieces of dance and music, working with professional dancers and musicians from Bassistry Arts.

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From the demise of the old glasshouse comes the rise of new garden developments. One of these is a new path across the Trials Field linking Battleston Hill to the Arboretum, where the hardcore needed to provide the base is coming from the old glasshouse site.

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