Just finished my last week in the formal department. Tuesday was spent doing fall clean-up in the famous mixed borders of Wisley. We dug out dahlias for overwintering as well as cutting back perennials.
Wednesday moning was spent spreading stray because the night before we had quite a bit of rain and there was standing water all over the place and the taste of autumn started that day and with a lto of the public walking around we needed to try and protect the grass. So an all call went out to the garden to bring your barrow and your pitch fork because there was straw that needed spreading. Everyone worked for most of the morning trying to get the grounds ready for our guests. The rest of the day intailed digging out trachystemon and replanting them.
Thursday morning I worked in the herb garden doing I fall clean up and the afternoon I volunteered with a special show that is going on right now at the gardens called taste of autumn it show cases the fruit and vegetable department and all they have grown this season. Also the trails department sells pumpkins and gourds they are testing out. So I got to help out in the apple tasting booth where I cut apples for customers to taste test before they bought. It was a lot of fun interacting with the public and I learned a lot about apples along the way. There was also an apple press there so I got to taste some of wisley apple cider which wasn't bad considering I'm not a huge apple cider fan.
Today was a rainy day quite dreary but we were getting the canal ready for bedding next week the design calls for a river of cornus to create a backdrop for the bellis that is going in. So most of today I spent plugging sticks/twigs into the ground. It was quite the site when we were done we got lots of compliments and questions.
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