Our Garden is blooming ………….. lovely!!

The award winning Windmill garden leapt into Spring with many wonderful flowering plants providing much needed nectar for pollinators.

In April our fruit trees were full of blossom, bluebells (we even have some native ones) looked gorgeous against a backdrop of lime green euphoria bracts, forget-me-nots provided spots of cute blue flowers, marigolds used their cheerful flowers to entice bees and our winter wheat put on a growth spurt.

May arrived and so did our wonderful wisteria, wowing us with its blooms on the pergola. Purple tansy attracted bees as well as being a green manure in a raised bed, with aquilegia and erysimum providing yet more pink & purple flowers which bees love. 

Meanwhile, the Windmill volunteers, apart from tending the garden and maintaining the Windmill, have been busy laying new block paving by the refreshment kiosk, laying a new brick pathway around the raised beds and making repairs to the central raised bed which seemed determined to make it's way down towards Upminster Bridge!!

Don't miss a chance at our open days throughout the Summer to come and see for yourself how things are changing as the year progresses.