Merry Christmas to you all from all of us at Head Office!! Don’t forget to keep topping up the water for your Christmas Trees and Poinsettias to prolong them through to the twelfth day of Christmas!!

Next week I’ll be thinking about some New Years resolutions I can put into action for the garden! But in the meantime it’s time to batten down the hatches for a week and eat drink and be merry! See you all next year!

Lin 

Our keen amateur gardener!

Today at Head Office we had our annual Christmas buffet lunch and some of us came dressed in our Chrimbo Jumpers! Emma came in with Baby Grace and it was lovely for us all to have a cuddle with her! (Grace not Emma!) 

Here’s a picture of Simon bonding with the latest edition to the company!

We all can’t believe how quickly the year has gone and also how mild the weather has been so here’s hoping it doesn’t get too cold or too wet over the next week and everyone has a fantastic Christmas. We’re hoping to get out on Boxing Day and have a lovely walk in the forest, hopefully we’ll get to see the last of the Autumnal leaves still on the trees!

Don’t forget we are doing a competition on our Facebook page, if you post a picture of your Christmas Tree onto our wall, you could be in for a chance of winning £50 Gift Vouchers!! Got to be in it to win it!! Good Luck!

Lin

Our keen amateur gardener!

Okay, I think we’re almost ready for Christmas at home! The tree and decorations are up, although I did have to buy a few extra baubles, and we went for a frosted theme this year! While I was at the Garden Centre I picked up from our Farm Shop some lovely extra sauces and a yummy Chilli Jam to go with my own chutney for Christmas dinner and cold meats on Boxing Day.

At the weekend, depending on the weather I’m going to hopefully spend a few hours in the garden clearing up the last of the fallen leaves and where it’s been so mild doing quite a bit of weeding! I’m going to invest in some bark chippings to cover the ground; this will keep in the moisture and keep those dreaded weeds away!

Lin 

Our keen amateur gardener!

I’m off this weekend to get my real Christmas tree!!! We always get very excited about this as it’s the start of the lead up to the festivities, and decorating the tree has become a tradition in our house that includes a few tipples of something warming to get us in the spirit….I can’t say the tree looks amazing and it usually needs tweaking the next day but that adds to the fun!

We put our tree well away from the radiator and it’s a good idea to cut off an inch from the bottom of the tree like you would with cut flowers, so it can soak up water and I make sure it’s watered very day, apparently they can absorb up to a pint of water a day!

While I was helping out at the Christmas Evenings I was really pleased to see the selection of LED lights we have in the garden centres, I threw our old ones away last year as I was fed up with trying to replace the bulbs!! All that’s left to do is to get up into the loft to find the baubles… lets hope they’re not in too bad a state or I may well be visiting the garden centre again for some new ones!

Lin
Our keen amateur gardener!