News & Stories
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Garden Blog - April 2025
01 Apr 25Eminent twentieth century etcher, draughtsman, painter, teacher, writer and all-round artistic type, Robin Tanner, perfectly captures the essence of the month in his delightful tempera on mahogany panel piece titled ‘Portrait of April’, where a lady, surrounded by a great abundance of Spring flora, looks wistfully into the distance.
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Coronation Orchard - Deenethorpe
20 Mar 25Community spirit abounded recently on a sunny spring day, when residents of Deenethorpe and Brudenell Estate staff met with the pleasant task of planting young fruit trees to provide an orchard for the village.
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Garden Blog - February 2025
18 Feb 25Our gardens in February really begin to burst into life, despite the continued risk of frosts snow and storms. Leading the charge, of course, are snowdrops.
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Garden Blog - January 2025
17 Jan 25For many, groggily blinking and emerging from a fug of seasonal overindulgence, January can seem like a particularly cruel month; dark, cold, and unremitting.
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Garden Blog - December 2024
20 Dec 24To paraphrase the ever youthful and never knowingly understated Ms. Mariah Carey, ‘’all I want for Christmas is yew, holly, ivy, and maybe a sprig of mistletoe’’.
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Garden Blog - November 2024
15 Nov 24On the 10th November 1871, near Lake Tanganyika, explorer and journalist, Henry Stanley, uttered the now famous line, ‘’Dr. Livingstone I presume?’’.
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House Blog - Charge of the Light Brigade Anniversary Tours
25 Oct 24Friday 25th October 2024 marked the 170th anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade, a charge of British light cavalry led by Major-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, against the Russian Military Forces during the Crimean War.
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Garden Blog - October 2024
18 Oct 24With October now here, the ancient English legend of ‘the Devil and the blackberries’ leaves us poor gardeners are fretting about our juicy fruity charges.
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Garden Blog - September 2024
13 Sep 24With the arrival of September, gardeners sense a distinct change in the feel of our gardens, as the days get progressively shorter and cooler.
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Garden Blog - August 2024
16 Aug 24In the 1827 poem ‘August’, by the famed ‘Peasant Poet of Northamptonshire’, John Clare, he notes that: ‘The fields are all alive with sultry noise Of labour’s sounds, and insects’ busy joys.’ It’s not only insects and labourers out in the fields that are busy right now, gardeners are jolly active too.
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