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The seasons are changing at Helmsley Walled Garden writes Tricia Harris

Holyrood Palace

Keith Hoskins, who has worked in Hitchin as town centre manager and now as a councillor - tells the Comet what he loves most about the town.

Falkland Palace

Speakers at the 2019 Conference - Dr Donald Williams (Secretary); Dr Saad Al-Ismail; Dr R. Brinley Jones (Chairman); Andrew Jenkins; Mary MacGregor, who gave a poetry reading; Dr Tim Smith; Professor Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha Picture: Mark Revitt. The annual conference of the Physicians of Myddfai Society, due to be held at the end of June, has been cancelled. The societys secretary, Dr Donald Williams, said this years cancellation was unavoidable in view of the current Covid-19 situation,...

By Tricia Harris Manager of Helmsley Walled Garden Helmsley Walled Garden and insert a Feuerkerze - photos Colin Dilcock This month Tricia Harris is going with the flow to keep Helmsley Walled Garden looking stunning It’s that time of year when everything takes off and if you dawdle, you’re left lying in a heap as your garden romps away without you. Personally, I don’t mind too much at home. We stop mowi...

Nell Jones As a child, I had an obsession with walled gardens, largely in part, down to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (ashamed to say not so much the book, but the great ‘90s film adaptation with Dame Maggie Smith). Those ivy-cloaked walls, darting robins and nymphy lily ponds, lichen-covered statues and weathered green houses, all still continue to fuel my romantic imaginings. Of course, the Chelsea Physic Garden is no secret, but it remains a restorative little oasis on Swa...