Tysoe Walled Kitchen Garden: Blossom

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.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Blossom

The plum blossom has been out for several weeks now. Today the pear blossom came out.

The trees look wonderful covered in the flowers and the Grenadier apple has just started to open.

Unfortunately there is a frost due tonight, -2 degrees, I hope the blossom will be ok.

I have covered some more vulnerable shrubs with fleece, these are hardy shrubs but now the buds are opening they can be killed off by a heavy frost, but not much you can do with a full sized tree.

Also in flower today is the lovely white honesty and the Rosemary bushes are covered in honey bees.