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In last week's sunny weather, and this week's chill, the garden teams have been busy tidying the place ready for the cold season to come. The fine turf has been scarified, aerated and top dressed; the square columns of hornbeam have been carefully pruned back; oak leaves are raked up off the...
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At the beginning of this week we had some glorious sunshine, and great crowds at our incredibly successful (and enjoyable) Taste of Autumn festival. Next week we have a host of half term activities plus something fun for Hallowe'en to look forward to, and the final week for submitting entries to...
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It's damp at Wisley as I write, but I'm sure the sun will return. To be honest, I'm out in China at the moment, at a Magnolia symposium. It has brought all the world's experts together for a unique event, with field trips to Nankinsham in Guangdong Province, before more to Shixi and Lushan...
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Last Monday, 2nd March, work started on our exciting new rose garden development. Regular visitors will have noticed us clearing and preparing Weather Hill recently, and the information boards outlining our new garden. The Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden, sponsored by Witan Investment Trust, is going to have...
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It’s here. We have a bright and cheerful snowman welcoming everyone into the Garden for the next few weeks. As a seasonal citrus twist on our annual Apple Mosaic that features during Wisley's ‘A Taste of Autumn’ festival, the Fruit Department have designed and built a Citrus Mosaic for Christmas...
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Here is an instance where we are inviting you NOT to copy our lead. Despite what it may look like, we have not been using a radical new method to prune our climbing roses on the Weather Hill Rose Garden. Instead, we've been chopping them back to make their removal easier. It’s been a feature of the...
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If you have visited Weather Hill in the last couple of weeks you may have been a little dismayed. We've been digging up the roses. But fear not. They haven’t gone forever. We're embarking on a new and exciting rose garden, the Bowes Lyon Rose Garden sponsored by Witan Investments. Biodiversity...
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