As part of the one year scholarship at Tresco Abbey Garden, the students have the option of working in another garden for two weeks, to get a flavour of gardening in a different environment. I decided to take this opportunity to work in Bristol University Botanic Garden, and am just back, having spent the last [...]
In all the years that I spent as a gardener on Tresco, I never had much of an inclination towards the bramble as a plant. I have always appreciated the fruit, of course, but I would have chosen never to eat a blackberry again had it meant an end to digging out brambles. This year, however, I [...]
Tresco Abbey Garden is home to a collection of ships figureheads and other artefacts that come from shipwrecks that took place on and around the Isles of Scilly. First collected by Augustus Smith, the then Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly, the figureheads soon formed a collection which Augustus named Valhalla. Today [...]
Take a stroll through the dunes from Carn Near to Great Rock and you will find yourself walking through swathes of wild agapanthus growing in the marram, bracken and heather. Right now the massed ranks of flowering stems are starting to appear and it’s one of my favourite times of year. The sight always [...]
The season of cruise ships and guided tours of the garden is upon us! There was much talk during the winter months about us students giving guided tours of the garden to cruise groups. Back in September when we first came to the garden, we were already being prepared for the guided tours by tagging [...]
For this month’s blog I thought it would be interesting to give you an idea of what it’s like to work in Tresco Abbey Garden, so I’m documenting a day in the life of Dave Inch, the propagator in the garden. Dave has worked in Tresco Abbey Garden for the last 25 years, [...]
Spring is definitely in the air here at Tresco Abbey Garden! Last week we had some wonderful warm sunny days, which, back home in Ireland, would be classed as summer weather. The garden has been open to visitors for the last few weeks, and it’s nice to see you trickling back in again. Over winter [...]
It never really occurred to me, or rather, I never spent any time pondering the existence of emergency services, on the Isles of Scilly in general, and on Tresco in particular, until recently, that is, when I had reason to avail of them. As a holiday maker, visitor, or temporary resident on Tresco, which has [...]
It’s said that one of the most stressful things a person can do in their lifetime is to move house, but not so for the chickens and ducks in Tresco Abbey Garden! As Abbey Garden student Brenda Bracken discovers… Some months ago, the Piante Faro nursery in Sicily kindly donated thirty seven olive trees to [...]
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Introducing Emma, Charlie and Iain, the 2012-13 Garden Students
Every year the Elizabeth Hess scholarship sponsors three lucky green-fingered individuals to spend a season working in the world-famous Tresco Abbey Gardens, amongst some of the most exotic plant-life in the UK. This year, Charlie Ive, Iain Middlebrook, and Emma Bagnall-Oakeley are the chosen three. Here they tell us a little bit about what led [...]