We are very pleased to announce that we have won the Keswick Tourism Association’s Country Establishment Award in this year’s Keswick in Bloom competition. As most of our visitors know, we work hard to try to keep our gardens looking good despite occasional bad weather, such as this years prolonged dry spell, and other destructive elements, such as escaped hens doing their best to uproot as many plants as possible!
A couple of years ago we were at the RHS gardens at Wisley at the time when the Wisteria display was at its stunning best! I made a note of a couple of the (to me) nicer varieties, but they had none of these in the plant shop there. On the way back home we called in to the nursery at Stapely – and located one of the varieties in their shop. This is now getting to be well established in the garden, and flowers a couple of weeks before the older & bigger plant over our kitchen window.
The cherry blosom on the tree by our car park has been absolutely covered in blossom this year. Maybe due to the colder & longer than usual Winter, but it sure is a welcome sight!
We have been visited by the Hotel Inspector this week and once again awarded a Four Star Quality grade with a Silver Award for Excellence.
And to brighten the week still further, the daffodils have started blooming in the gardens, just in time for Easter.
