GTMarApr

Immaculate 11 acre
garden in Ticehurst
Special Events
including
TULIP
FESTIVAL
Gardens, Café with
Terrace, Gift Shop
and Sculpture & Art
Exhibitions open
from 1st April
Visiting Pashley Manor Gardens
In late April/early May Pashley Manor’s spectacular Tulip
Festival sees this garden, on the border of Sussex and Kent,
carpeted with over 30,000 tulips, creating stunning scenes
for visitors to enjoy. Tulips are followed by over 100 varieties
of roses through June, hundreds of scented lilies, the kitchen
garden showcasing an abundance of produce and a blaze of
colour provided by hundreds of dazzling dahlias, during the
Dahlia Days event in early September.
Complemented by a fantastic café with a beautiful terraced
seating area, exhibitions of sculpture and art and a lovely
gift shop Pashley is a great destination for a day out in 2017.
Open from 1st April to 30th September, Tuesday to Saturday,
Bank Holiday Mondays and Special Event Days from 10am to
5pm (NB closed on Good Friday 14th April).
Tulip Festival - Friday 21 April every day up to and including
Saturday 6 May, 10am - 5pm
Over one hundred varieties of tulip are planted in colour
themed garden ‘rooms’. Yet more tulips are on display as
cut flowers in the Bloms Bulbs marquee. Bloms, winners of
sixty five Chelsea Gold Medals, are on hand throughout the
Festival to share their knowledge of these beautiful bulbs and
to take orders from those inspired by the spectacle.
01580 200888
pashleymanorgardens.com
Gardening tips for mid-late Winter
by Phoenix Gardening
It only seems like yesterday it was Christmas. If you like
a real Christmas tree, one thing to bear in mind is you
can always chop it up as finely as possible and use it
as an ericaceous mulch around plants such as azaleas,
rhododendrons and camellias. Let’s start with the veg
patch, apply manures where necessary, you can plant
onion sets and shallots, sow early crops under some
fleece to give them some protection, if you have cloches
these are good for warming up the soil at the same time
as protecting plants. ‘Chit’ seed potatoes.
We can sow hardy annuals, in milder areas these should
be fine in situ in colder areas you might need to keep
one eye on the weather and protect them a little, or
start them off indoors. Sow sweet peas, Feed and mulch
beds. Plant summer bulbs, buy seeds and bulbs if you
haven’t already done so. As temperatures start to rise
keep an eye out for pests and diseases as these can
multiply with the temperatures.
Moving into mid spring, once the potatoes have ‘chitted’
sufficiently and the soil is a little warmer we can
Phoenix Gardening
All aspects of garden maintenance - pruning, planting beds & borders,
grass cutting, weeding, clearance, veg plots & allotments
plus shed maintenance & patio\deck cleaning
Reasonable rates - per hour\day\job. Always happy to quote.
Registered Waste Licence Holder
neilsgarden@yahoo.com
Call Neil 07958 408667
Covering Hastings, St Leonards, Bexhill,
Battle, Fairlight, Rye
plant them now. Plant container grown shrubs, plant
herbaceous plants, for those tall herbaceous plants put
some stakes in early.
If you’ve planted some seeds in trays or pots now is the
time to pick them out and pot them up. If you have a
pond now is a good time to plant aquatics before growth
is advanced. If you have a greenhouse or a free window
sill in the conservatory try taking some leaf cuttings of
streptocarpus or Begonias. It’s a good way of increasing
your stock.
Want strawberries and ice cream for summer? plant
some now. A good way to plant strawberries if you have
a little space is in a propped up pallet keeps the fruit off
the ground.
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