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Cloudehill Nursery & Garden

Locality: Olinda, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9751 1009

Address: 89 Olinda-Monbulk rd Olinda 3788 Olinda, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.cloudehill.com.au/

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24.01.2022 Seasons Restaurant is back to doing TAKE AWAY and right now the team are busily swapping the kitchen around in preparation. Things will be all set up for take home tucker and such-like this weekend and they will be open until further notice 9am - 3pm. In the meantime check out their menu

22.01.2022 Well after a few weeks of hibernation Diggers will be re-opening their nursery at Cloudehill on Saturday, June 13. In the meantime Seasons Restaurant is open between 8am - 2pm every day for takeaway meals and coffees. We have thrown the Cloudehill Gardens open during these hours and people are very welcome to visit and stroll. You will find the nursery car park is closed however Seasons car park will be available for parking. And all the gates to the gardens open. The Yarra R...anges Tourism people were out filming a few days back and captured a nice little sequence of Adam busily tidying up the variegated hollies in the Shrub Walk. Along with a few other titbits. Have a look. In fact, as anyone who has wandered around in the past few days can attest, Adam has been very busy from one end of the garden. A few weeks hibernation is actually the best possible excuse to jump in and tackle jobs that ordinarily we only dream of tackling. The big job at present is a major re-arrange of the end of the main terrace. This is still a project in progress and I need a few more days to figure out exactly how to complete things. However next time you visit, expect big, big changes. https://youtu.be/z1ojAtOOnTo

22.01.2022 Cloudehill Update Well for those who can meet The Four Rules (for leaving the coziness of one’s own home) the Gardens and Diggers Nursery will stay open (unless rules change). You will find notices outside the Diggers Shop explaining protocols. PLEASE PLEASE read these carefully before walking in. The Cloudehill Gardens will also remain open and we ask everyone wandering to maintain lots of personal space between themselves and other visitors. The Diggers Shop and Cloudehill Gardens will be open 10am to 4pm until further notice. Here is Callum on welcoming duty in front of the bulbs.

22.01.2022 Sadly I have to announce that in line with Melbourne’s Stage Four lock-down Cloudehill Gardens has closed for the next six weeks. The Diggers Nursery at Cloudehill has also closed, and the Diggers Club moved all their business online for this period. Anyone hunting down catalogue items please check their website and order online. Seasons Restaurant is open at present, however for takeaway only. For locals wanting to support Rhonda and her family, Seasons will be open daily... between 10am and 2pm. For further details please check their website or ring before you come. As already said, this is a very surreal time for all of us however also absolutely essential. It has become very apparent we cannot live with this rotten thing. It is much too infectious. The only thing to be done is to hammer Covid 19 out of existence and we all have to do our bit. I just hope we have not left things too late and the genie impossible to squeeze back into the bottle. We shall find out in a few weeks. Here is a photo of last weeks snow taken by Valerie outside our kitchen door, a passing vehicle on the road above.

21.01.2022 Lloyd Urquhart is well into putting up what will be a very handsome tool shed in the corner of our vegetable garden. The frame is up, one or two windows are in and the planking going on. It happens the planking is cedar, from a big old Cedrus atlantica Glauca that fell apart in a winter storm nearly 20 years ago which we milled and stored under some rhododendrons on the boundary. Now every second garden has a cedar garden shed, except that wood is not cedar at all. It is the ...timber from Thuya plicata, or the Western Red Cedar. The Western Red Cedar hales from Oregan and British Columbia. Our cedar will be the genuine article, from the Atlas Mountains of North Africa and Morocco and Tunisia. This cedar is the cedar of medieval cedar chests, the cedar that kept clothes free from moths. The Atlas cedar has very much the same wood as the Lebanese cedar that the biblical Joseph would have been very familiar with. In fact all morning the lines from Jesus Christ Superstar have been running through my head: "oaken chairs and cedar chests would have suited Jesus best..." and an evening in London in October of 1973. Certainly every time the old planking is sawn, sanded or disturbed in any way the aromatics in the timber explode into the air and make the job an absolute joy. Painting the shed black and yellow on the other hand might be a job for next spring when temperatures in the Dandenongs are more conducive to such things. Lloyd should be busy all this week. Feel free to drop in and check on progress.

21.01.2022 Here are (or should I say were) our yellow tulips in the Warm Borders, courtesy of Tesselaars, flowering magnificently earlier this month and no one saw them, darn it. Seasons is opening at 9am (for those breakfasting) and closing at 4pm. Of course Seasons Restaurant will be operating under Covid 19 restrictions (for however long it takes to get a vaccine out) which means it is absolutely imperative to book ahead on (03) 9751 1068. Seasons will be carrying on with their take...-away food. They're had quite a lot of practise at take-away these past few months naturally and kept at least half the residents along our immediate ridgelines in handsome take-away meals since (when was it?) March (this year, or was it last year?) Finally, these past few weeks we have been landscaping a new part of the gardens, quite a large area just below the Seasons car park specifically for visitors wanting a nice spot for a garden picnic. If interested, please check with Seasons to see what they offer in the way of a rather special picnic box.

20.01.2022 Adam has been taking advantage of this pleasantly sunny and pleasantly moist spring to clip the Cloudehill hedges and I’d say he is about three quarters of the way through. Of course we have just about every type of hedge and topiary you can poke a stick at (please don’t mind you) including the bumbly box hedge beside the quadrangle which seems to be becoming evermore bumbly to the point there's a wave breaking half way along. Turn 90 degrees and among our collection of box b...alls (using four different types of box) each side of Graeme Foote’s very handsome Sphinx Bench we have Gillenia trifoliata flowering. I remember a backyard enthusiast propagating a few of these and asking if I might be interested in selling them (back in the day!) and they sat in the nursery month after month everyone wondering what these things might be until the temptation just to darn plant them overwhelmed me and in they went, into the rather large gaps between our rather small box balls, as they were 15 years ago. These many years later Gillenia trifoliata is one of the sights of Cloudehill. Eventually it produces handsome little berries which last a long time and the leaves turn yellow flushed orange-pink in the autumn. However every corner of the garden is looking astonishing at present, everything taking advantage of this lovely weather. Above we have a quick snap of the cool borders from a few minutes ago. Plants include Achillea Moonshine, a particularly good (florist type) Altroemeria, and further along Fuschia magellanica Versicolor. This fuschia does extremely well for us and we use it in several places even to a couple of good-sized blue basins in full sun. I first saw it growing at Sissinghurst in 1981 next to Sedum Autumn Joy and both magnificent that sunny September. Trevor Nottle (in the Adelaide Hills) introduced it to this country and I have been growing it somewhere in Cloudehill ever since 1992. Having said this, I have never seen it sold in an Australian nursery. We must, must propagate some!

17.01.2022 Here we have Puya alpestris, two photos I took just last week. Now I’ve mentioned Puya alpestris in previous years however it doesn’t flower every year. In fact I think I’ve flowered it three times now in, I suppose, 20 years, but this year, you will notice, it has THREE flowering spikes. I feel like giving the Guinness people a ring, has this ever been done before? You might also notice our puya has been moved from the shrub borders to an old copper. This, I’ll put my hands ...up, is a bit of thievery from Sissinghurst. It makes good sense mind you, for a couple of reasons. Growing it as a container plant does make the puya easier to look after in that it is a little less inclined to wander. It is very prickly, what Americans call an excellent ‘barrier plant’. Also its colour absolutely suits a copper with a bit of Verdigris to it don’t you think? For those wondering, it is a bromeliad, indeed a cousin to the pineapple. See more

17.01.2022 Coming from WA to the Dandenongs in 1990, perhaps the most memorable afternoon that autumn was meeting Ruth Tindale in her garden in Sherbrooke. I vividly recall the great feature that day were the immense colonies of Cyclamen hederifolium flowering their hearts out below the house. Ruth told me that she and her late husband, George, had been collecting seed and spreading it all around the garden for a long time. The effect was ravishing. Visiting Perth around the turn of the... millenium, I was introduced to Keith Money. Keith had discovered a Dutch Nursery, Green Ice, that had been selecting forms of the (not all that many) species of cyclamen not, for their flowers, but their leaf patterns. Now all cyclamen have interesting leaves but of course some are more interesting than others and for several years after that Keith was sending some of his treasures over the Nullabor and we were selling them in Cloudehill. Of course cyclamen are variable and it was impossible not to pull out a few nice ones for popping in shady places around the garden. The colonies you see nowadays in Cloudehill are courtesy of Keith. Having mentioned cyclamen like shade, perhaps I should specify 'deciduous' shade. In other words somewhere with plenty of winter sunshine, and summer shade. Like for instance, under big Japanese maples. This is where several of Keith's pewter leaf form of the winter-flowering C. coum went in and now form great burgeoning colonies that battle it out with the snowdrops and the Erythroniums and the Epimediums and other such highlights of winter and spring. There is one species that does enjoy sun, Cyclamen graecum. Graecum comes from the eastern Mediterranean and from Greece, as its name suggests. It ranges from there through Turkey and Syria to the hills around Jerusalem and particulary enjoys sunny rocky crevices where its corms wedge themselves so firmly they're impossible to remove. We have a few of this (moderately) rare species on the sunny side of the Rhododendron arboreum 'Campbellii' next to Seasons Restaurant. Here it is blasted with a few hours of mid-day sun every day which it thoroughly enjoys, and doesn't at all mind the root competition from the huge old Rhododendron towering overhead. We also have three or four plants of Cyclamen persicum. This species is both very rare and very, very common in that the species itself in gardens is highly unusual, on the other hand, persicum is the parent of all the florist forms of cyclamen one sees for sale everywhere by the truckload. The florist varieties are all very nice but there's a strong tendency for them to be short-lived when planted in the garden, and they certainly never naturalize in the way that most of the species are happy to do.When one thinks, cyclamen are almost all Mediterranean plants and so very at home in most parts of Southern Australia (given summer shade). Every garden should have a few.

17.01.2022 Sadly I have to announce that in line with Melbourne’s Stage Four lock-down Cloudehill Gardens has closed for the next six weeks. The Diggers Nursery at Cloudehill has also closed, and the Diggers Club moved all their business online for this period. Anyone hunting down catalogue items please check their website and order online. Seasons Restaurant is open at present, however for takeaway only. For locals wanting to support Rhonda and her family, Seasons will be open daily... between 10am and 2pm. For further details please check their website or ring before you come. As already said, this is a very surreal time for all of us however also absolutely essential. It has become very apparent we cannot live with this rotten thing. It is much too infectious. The only thing to be done is to hammer Covid 19 out of existence and we all have to do our bit. I just hope we have not left things too late and the genie impossible to squeeze back into the bottle. We shall find out in a few weeks. Here is a photo of last weeks snow taken by Valerie outside our kitchen door, a passing vehicle on the road above.

16.01.2022 Thank you to (in alphabetical order) Jane Edmanson and Graham Ross for the segments on Gardening Australia and Better Homes and Gardens last Friday night. The piece on hedges with Jane was filmed by the ABC team roughly this time last year and the garden looking pretty well exactly as it looks right now - nice and wintry and so long as you are rugged up, great fun to walk around enjoying the architecture. As I'm wont to say every June, we went to a lot of trouble with our win...ter architecture and now's the time to see it. View the Gardening Australia Segment https://www.abc.net.au//factshe/living-on-a-hedge/12346604 On the other hand, Graham's crew were filming a day or two into the lockdown period in March. All we had was a camera man filming from some way off and a sound man dangling a microphone from the end of a very long boom just out of shot. My job was to stand around dreaming up my own questions and trying not to look too stupid. Anyway that day the garden was glorious and the crew absolutely brilliant and lots of footage went off to Graham who magnificently filled in all the yawning gaps. View the Better Homes and Gardens Segment https://www.bhg.com.au/graham-visits-cloudehill-gardens Just why the two segments went out simultaneously will forever remain one of the great mysteries, however a really handy reason for re-opening the Cloudehill Nursery and the Diggers team - Fran, Lucy, Betty, Sally and Callum - are well and truly off and away. For the rest of winter Cloudehill will be open Winter Hours. Seasons at Cloudehill Restaurant - 9am to 4pm, 7 days Diggers at Cloudehill Nursery - 10am to 4pm, 7 days Gardens will open in conjunction with the nursery, thus 10am to 4pm 7 days.

13.01.2022 Immediately below the Cedar Shed we have a hybrid Tree Rhododendron which has always been a bit of a mystery. It's just possible it is a seedling which germinated in Cloudehill. It was originally growing in a very odd spot through an old gate left lying on the ground at the top of what's now our Commedia Lawn. I actually had to pull the gate apart in order to rescue it. Once that was done it was easy enough to dig it up and move it as it was less than one metre high at the ti...me. So how old was it then? Well I think less than ten years, in which case it is a seedling as Jim Woolrich was not doing much gardening in his last 15 years, say from the late '70s through to the spring of '91 when he died. One of its parents is definitely Rhododenron arboreum Delavayi as our biggest specimen of this outstanding sub-species is only a few metres away on the edge of what is now Seasons Restaurant car park. Our mystery Rhododendron has much the same (very unusual) bark and (handsome) flowers over a very long season, though with a lovely raspberry tint to them. And the other parent? Well it could be one of a hundred different rhododendrons growing thereabouts but whatever it was it has turned out to be a very useful union as our mystery arboreum is one of the loveliest hybrid arboreums I am know. Of course our several specimens of Rhododendron arboreum Delavayi are all coming into flower now and to prove the point, here is also shot of one near the top of the garden taken minutes back.

11.01.2022 The photo attached shows our new Cedar Cottage taken during the last snow fall. The cottage is still lacking the two lines (from John Donne) which eventually will hang on the end wall, however we do have the letters very handsome laser-cut acrylic ones supplied by ‘Laser Concepts’ of Croydon. We just have to wait for the paint to cure on our timber board before we can glue them on. In the middle of winter paint takes weeks to cure and especially when it snows and the stuff ...requires 36 hours before it all melts. Our winter is very wintry at present! Above also, we see another snow scene which rather nicely shows signs of Cloudehill’s wild-life. In this instance our wombat who, we discovered, makes tour of the entire garden 15 times every night, judging by all the tracks he/she leaves behind. The other more-dainty tracks look suspiciously like those of a fox. Elsewhere we found deer prints and wallaby prints and other assorted beasties. By the looks of the weather for this week, there may well be some more snow photos to come!

11.01.2022 This summer seems to have set into a pattern of a few mild sunny days leading into one or two hot days reminding us that the Dandenongs after all ARE part of Australia, then an inch or two (or three) of rain. The grass along the ridges hereabouts is absolutely emerald, and in fact our local council is still letting us have bonfires, everything way too wet to burn!! Amazing! And the garden, though somewhat overgrown and a bit floppy, is incredible, I am still busily planting out new areas IN JANUARY! Certainly it’s all a feast for the eyes.

10.01.2022 We are Open! Well after a very long spell with our gates closed, at last we have them wide open. Diggers are flat out re-stocking the nursery (though everything in their shop is as it was from last March) however if you're popping in this weekend you will find their plant display, though not quite complete, heading back towards pre-Covid normalcy. For the next week or so, while bringing things back up to date, they are opening an hour later, at 10am, each morning, however clo...sing at their usual time of 5pm. Here is a photo of the Don Quixote gate in our front hedge by Kim Kennedy. We hope to see you soon.

10.01.2022 A Festival of Shakespeare at Cloudehill January Sat 2 & Sun 3 Postponed Well here we are, on its very last legs and still 2020 has a sting in its tail. Or is this mixing metaphors? In any case the news of the past few hours with potential new cases in the East of Melbourne means that after consultation with Ozact and with immense regret we have been forced to postpone their performances of Shakespeare at Cloudehill this weekend. Covid permitting, we will re-schedule ‘A Feast ...of Shakespeare’ to either later February or March. And we hope that those who have already purchased tickets for this coming weekend will be happy to hold onto them and attend the rescheduled performance in the following weeks. If this does not suit, naturally monies are refundable, and if you have tickets, please check your email as there will be one from us with instructions on how to do this. You will also have the opportunity to request a refund when the new dates are announced if they are not convenient for you. So all very disappointing though in the grand scheme of disappointments 2020 has been dealing out over the world I guess ours are not the biggest. We just pick ourselves up and try once again in a few week’s time hoping all the while those people north of the border have things under control by then. In the meantime, the garden is looking very lovely so please do come (with mask) and I’ll see you in the garden. Regards Jeremy Francis

10.01.2022 After Three Months Hiatus - it is a busy time at Cloudehill. Firstly - The Diggers Club Nursery and Cloudehill Gardens is re-opening tomorrow. We haven't been relaxing these past three months and the next little while is pretty hectic. I'll start with some the Cloudehill TV segments that are on tonight.... In order of filming - Jane Edmanson and the Gardening Australia team were here last winter just as we were completing the renovation of the hornbeam hedges. For those interested in the logic of structure in the garden and the long-term maintenance of hedges, this should be a fascinating segment. I remember being shown some astonishing drone footage at the end of filming that day. Do watch out for it. The Better Homes and Gardens team on the other hand were filming March this year, in fact at the beginning of the lock-down period. Hence you will see me answering questions when there wasn't actually anyone asking questions. It was a bit surreal in the way, I expect, these past three months have been for all of us and I myself am eager to see what the BH&G crew made of the result. They're a very professional outfit mind you and I'm sure it will be fine. Certainly that day the garden was absolutely glorious and after our wonderfully rainy summer, the plants were up high and flowers thick everywhere. Three days later the first autumn weather system thumped across the Dandenongs and flattened everything. And there was some staggering drone footage taken that day also and something else to watch out for. So make sure you catch us on Channel 7's Better Homes and Gardens and on the ABC's Gardening Australia TONIGHT!

09.01.2022 Just a reminder to book your tickets as they are selling fast! In case you missed my last post and our newsletter, we have scheduled just the one event this summer - Ozact performing a FEAST (no less) of SHAKESPEARE on Sat 2 & Sunday 3 of January. As an open air event we are allowed (rather small) audiences (book really, really early in other words) and bring picnics & wine AND (really important) standard-size camp chairs, and NOT the traditional low-beach chair or cushion or... (even worse) blanket to sit on! Current Covid regulations mean that everyone must be seated. Also, we are asking everyone to come nice and early and enjoy their picnics anywhere in the gardens (EXCEPT THE THEATRE) then move to the theatre 15 minutes beforehand! Tickets will be limited so don’t waste anytime booking at https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=690608&

08.01.2022 We are over the half way mark of our stage four lock-down and waiting to see if it will work. I suspect it to be a close run thing. In fact I rather suspect Melbourne is now going to stay in partial lock-down until we are all vaccinated and the earliest that can be I reckon is February next year. All very frustrating, and very unpleasant for those of us in the hot spots. In the meantime we are keeping ourselves busy. Our Cedar shed project is complete except for its paintwork..., for which we need some warmer weather. When we do have some sun, the walls of the building will turn black with strategic flashes of yellow here and there. However we have installed the lines of John Donne, the lines from his poem 'The Sunne Rising'. You can see the result below, along with me in my Covid 19 get-up. The rock field above the shed is only a little reminiscent of a shingle beach at Dungerness I grant you, however to my eye the size of the stone seems right for the position and in the corner you will spot a very interesting piece of bluestone which I first saw in a garden supply business yonks ago and which has been about Cloudehill for at least 20 years. Well I think it might have found a home. We shall see.

06.01.2022 Of course the garden during lock-down in the way of these things was extraordinary. And to prove the point, below we have one of Ronnie Boekal’s Intersectional Hybrid Peonies, Paeonia Lemon Dreams, as it was a few weeks back. Each bloom was at least 200mm across and there were a lot of them and opening over several weeks. I’d rank this as the best peony of any type I’ve ever seen, so far! And the season carries on with a little rain whenever needed, and now the summer borders... are coming into colour - so come along and see. In case you missed my last post and our newsletter, we have scheduled just the one event this summer - Ozact performing a FEAST (no less) of SHAKESPEARE on Sat 2 & Sunday 3 of January. As an open air event we are allowed (rather small) audiences (book really, really early in other words) and bring picnics & wine AND (really important) standard-size camp chairs, and NOT the traditional low-beach chair or cushion or (even worse) blanket to sit on! Current Covid regulations mean that everyone must be seated. Also, we are asking everyone to come nice and early and enjoy their picnics anywhere in the gardens (EXCEPT THE THEATRE) then move to the theatre 15 minutes beforehand! Tickets will be limited so don’t waste anytime booking at https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=690608

06.01.2022 For anyone who has popped into Cloudehill in winter over past years, you will know that the beeches are one of the joys of the colder months. Their leaf litter is glorious at this time of the year and especially the litter below the fern leaf. For several years now we have been building up colonies of snow drops in this spot. These seem very happy in the winter sun and summer shade under the beech. Two species are doing well for us. Below the fernleaf we have Galanthus elwesi...i, and nearby under the big tricolor we have the diminutive G. nivalis flowering a week or two later. Both colonies have been expanding rapidly and will be putting on a fabulous show in July. We associate snowdrops with snow of course and it doesn't seem to upset them and indeed the white on white effect of snowdrops in snow is something worth travelling to see. All we need is snow in July so keep an eye on the weather.

06.01.2022 What on earth can one say for 2020? I have always wondered about my parents generation and how they were just recovering from the Great Depression and along came WW2. And then there’s my grandparents generation who had WW1 to deal with as well as the Great Depression and WW2. Our generation seemed to be having a pretty easy ride, then came 2020 and it’s still not finished. 2021 and 2022 could also have us on our toes. Of course the year began with bushfires on a level no-one ...could previously imagine. An area nearly three time the size of Tasmania burnt and of course that ties straight in with our next big challenge Global Warming. It’s becoming obvious the world has ten years at most to turn the ship around so we’re all going to be on our toes for a long time. And Cloudehill? Well. We used the lock-down period (mid-March to early November minus that three week false dawn at the end of June to early July) to charge into gardening in a way we haven’t done in years. The area leading up to the summer house was re-arranged, the 100 year old Fernleaf beech thinned out (quite a big job involving three arborists for two days) the paths below the peony pavilion were resurfaced, brick paths were laid in the vegetable garden plus the cedar cottage built (ten years in the planning this building) and finally a new grass garden was laid out below Seasons Restaurant. Anyone who has not been in for a while will hardly recognise the place. Don't forget to book your tickets for A Feast of Shakespeare in the Green Theatre at Cloudehill on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd January. www.trybooking.com/690608

04.01.2022 It seems Victoria is entering round two of our Great Covid 19 battle. It’s also becoming increasingly clear that it is much more cost-effective to eliminate this swine of a thing than to live with it. Those unfortunate countries that went for Herd Immunity are never going to be the same and as Victoria has just discovered, living with this darn thing is just about impossible. Elimination will not be easy but it is fascinating that several countries hereabouts seemed to have s...lipped into this blessed state more-or-less by accident. Indeed most of Australia (also by accident) has achieved something of the same so let’s see what we Melbournians can do in the next little while. For those who can't come to the gardens, this is the winter-flowering Chinese Weeping Apricot above the Vegetable Garden and Snowdrops and Winter Aconites under one of our Weeping Maples.

03.01.2022 Here is a photo of a rare camellia given to me by Andrew Raper a few years back. This is an extraordinarily good hybrid of the species camellia C. granthamiana and with a name that entirely escapes me, darn it. Now Camellia granthamiana itself is also very rare, in fact about as rare as any plant can be in that for years it was known from just one specimen growing on Hong Kong Island. As said, a species described from one specimen only in the wild has to be counted as pretty ...rare, though I understand that recently, just to spoil the story, more have been discovered on the Chinese mainland. Now not only is this camellia rare, it is also handsome. It grows to about the size of an average japonica however with intriguingly wrinkled (more-properly, rugose) leaves, in fact a little like those of a rugosa rose. And C. granthamiana also has handsome flowers with somewhat fluted petals and their texture reminiscent of crepe paper. It flowers right in the middle of winter, which probably makes sense for a plant from a somewhat tropical part of the world. My pink hybrid (with the name which I still cannot remember, darn it) also flowers for several weeks exactly mid-winter and with flowers of a quality which (I am hoping everyone agrees) make it just about the finest hybrid camellia of the many, many thousands of hybrid camellias in our gardens. I say this with trepidation as I also happen to know this fascinating hybrid is incredibly difficult to propagate and Andrew giving me one was a very big favour. This camellia is so tricky to propagate I expect never to see it for sale so the only possible way ever to see one is to come along to Cloudehill next June/July and admire ours growing right beside the The Diggers Club Nursery.

03.01.2022 You know I tapped out the last post just before Christmas and went off for lunch thinking I must think of something inspirational to say about 2020. After two hour’s pondering, I’m afraid it’s completely beyond me. Here’s hoping that somehow 2021 makes a bit more sense than its very horrible predecessor. So instead of something inspirational to say, I spent 15 minutes dashing around taking happy snaps and if everything looks somewhat lush and moist, that’s because we receiv...ed some 40mm of rain in the 18 hours before I took them. Tickets are still available for a Feast of Shakespeare. What a wonderful way to start the new year. www.trybooking.com/690608

02.01.2022 'A Feast of Shakespeare' POSTPONED Thank you to those that have responded overwhelmingly letting us know that you are happy to hold on to your tickets for the new dates which are yet to be announced. If you missed our communications, please check your email and maybe your spam for details on how to hold your tickets or seek a refund.