Moors Meadow Open Gardens and Nursery - Bromyard

This Month

This Month June 2026 - Sunday, 31 May 2026

It has been an eventful month . At the Malvern Spring Show I was presented with the trophy for RHS Partner Garden of the Year for the Midlands and East Anglia by one of the directors. A few days later and BBC TV Midlands Today were filming in the garden, arriving at 10am and finally leaving at 7pm. With the intermittent signal they had difficulty getting the piece back to the studio in time to be on air. I was a little croaky on it as I have had lost my voice a week or two before and it was slow to return. It was an interesting day, all the more tiring for including giving a guided tour to a garden club. The cameraman did a great job and we put the world to rights as we wandered around the garden.
With the continuing garden work this month I haven’t had time to go out and buy more plants apart from a plant fair in early May but even then I didn’t get many. Having said that I still need to find space for a few new trees such as Dipteronia sinensis and three Acers. I am trying Cryptotaenia japonica, a perennial parsley which likes the shade. I did take a couple of hours out just for a short trip when I bought some more Bearded Iris as, with the drier summers, they are good in the front garden. I also bought Agapanthus Black Jack, the dark flower is very lovely.
Around the garden I am doing a little weeding in the herbaceous areas as the Forget-me-nots go over and here and there a little pruning where I am still spotting the odd dead branches I had missed in the winter. On hot days I am also getting a little time reading on the veranda. I slink into the shrubberies for a short time then sit with a book a while again, I cannot sit for long but it is also too hot to work for long. It is also the time of the annual Cleaver weeding before it rambles over shrubs and seeds even more. I don’t mind the job too much as it is a chance to look closely at all the plants, something I spend far too little time doing.
The colour around the garden is fantastic, I am very pleased with the new Rhododendron area. Most plants seem to be very floriferous this year. On the down side, the vegetable garden isn’t looking too good. I planted seed into coir and they germinated quickly with only a few seed failing. Unfortunately after that first burst they were slow to grow, I have also had a lot of problems with mice eating the peas and beans. I need to be working in the kitchen garden but in the heat I would not be able to survive in that area for long. So for now its back to the shrubberies for me.

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