Let’s help double tree cover Who would have thought that the trees we planted in early Spring, which were deep in half a metre of floods by March, would now need watering? But that’s what’s happened. We have had to call out the Town Council bowser, for which big thanks, seven times so far to water our thirsty saplings. The climate emergency – wet winters and droughts in summer – is the main reason we are in business planting hundreds[…]
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The weather and rhododendrons are ahead of 2025 by a couple of weeks, significant at Exbury, which has 200 acres of mixed herbaceous, contemporary, formal and woodland gardens bordering the Beaulieu River. There is narrow-gauge steam railway finalised in 2001 by enthusiast Leopold de Rothschild and inspired by Aviemore Station in Scotland. The Rothschild dynasty started with a coin dealer in the Frankfurt ghetto with five sons, who spread throughout Europe in the 1800’s. Exbury House, a neoclassical mansion was[…]
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We at Bridport Tree Planting, which has existed now since November 2019, are still sometimes asked who we are and how we work. We thought we’d put up a couple of weather proof notices near where we’ve planted and anyone interested can go the website in the link below where they’ll find a full background plus all ournewsletters since we began. Here is what the notices will look like. And don’t forget, we’ll continue to offer three free native species[…]
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Many thanks to Anne Bark and her dedicated helpers for organising the show and to Phil Frampton for supporting the Club and giving out the prizes with such enthusiasm. Class Winners
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A gentle reminder – your current membership card expires on 30th April 2026. Can members who pay their subscriptions via a recurring BACS Standing Order mandate, please check that renewal is set up for April 1st, 2026. This also applies to members who joined on or after October 1st, 2025, and set up a BACS Standing Order. BACS Standing Order is the preferred option for paying your membership, keeping costs low. Forms are available on the club’s website. This allows[…]
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A place of legend where the old and very young find somewhere that speaks to them through ancient walls, colour and design, foliage, or water flowing through the decades: to be glimpsed as a memory at a later age. From the Dean’s Eye, across Cathedral Green then over a draw-bridged moat, we hear of a garden prior to Bishop Jocelyn’s palace and camery, (medieval garden) created early in the 13th century. Later that century the chapel and one of the[…]
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Click the link below to download the November 2025 Bridport Tree Planting Newsletter.
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Our annual Harvest Show on Saturday 13 September proved a great success, delighting visitors despite the challenges posed to Bridport’s gardeners this year by the long hot summer and recent strong winds and heavy rain. The show offered plenty to admire both inside and outside the United Reformed Church, East Street. A Charity Plant Fair, run by Margaret Genender, Vivienne and Gordon Smith and Elizabeth Welch raised over £250 for the mental health and wellbeing charity, The Harmony Centre. In[…]
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Mottisfont stands bold, then follow along to the priory’s cellarium and coffee strong, view a Mappa Mottisfont defining the hours and lands from the priory’s 1340 flourishing to the black death and decline. Across the sward a stone arched summer house, fit for assignations, is dwarfed below majestic trees. Boxed trees with much clipping to define, formal edging, hedging and a lime walk recalling columned cloisters, formality with urns and mown lawn give way to rewilding tinged red and shades[…]
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