Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden: BBBBs

Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden

Welcome to the Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden website! We are committed to organic gardening. Using the best practices from the Victorian days (i.e. lots of horse manure) and knowledge gleaned from the Ryton Organic Gardens we have set out to tame our Warwickshire clay. It’s all about sustainability, so as well as organic gardening, we’re always looking to better ways to work with our environment.

On this site you can find out about our history and the projects we are working on. You can come visit the garden and learn about organic gardening. Follow our blog to see what’s on our mind in the garden this month.

For the first 8 years all the work was carried out by just the two of us. Now we have help and are passing on our knowledge to students on the WRAGS (Work and Retrain As a Gardener Scheme).

We also find time to be involved with the WOT2Grow Community Orchard in Tysoe and have planted a 3 acre wood close to Tysoe, just over the border in Oxfordshire with a grant from the Woodland Trust.

Saturday, March 2, 2019

BBBBs

Beautiful, Blackthorn, Blossom for the Bees!

Not actually in our garden but over the wall in next doors garden, a bit of borrowed landscape. But we can enjoy the sight and sound of the blackthorn blossom from our garden.

Walking past the blossom a loud buzzing sounds indicates that the honey bees are enjoying an early season feast.

There are other plants in the garden which also provide the important food for not only honey bees but bumbles and any others that are around now, especially since we have had a few very warm days.

The sarcococca that I mention in the last blog is still flowering and full of bees on a warm sunny day. Also the dainty yellow flowers of winter flowering Jasmine nudiflorum