Why Gardening Is The Best Form of Mindfulness

**Are you a young, enthusiastic individual who has a strong interest in Garden Landscaping and is keen to strengthen their skills and learn skills along the way? If so, this vacancy might be for you....** - We are SOS Gardening & Landscaping - with 20 years experience in the Landscaping & Horticultural industry, we pride ourselves on working to a high...

**Are you a young, enthusiastic individual who has a strong interest in Garden Landscaping and is keen to strengthen their skills and learn skills along the way? If so, this vacancy might be for you....** - We are SOS Gardening & Landscaping - with 20 years experience in the Landscaping & Horticultural industry, we pride ourselves on working to a high...

When it's cold outside and the days are short, it can be all too tempting to hunker down, cosy up and stay indoors. But we're here to convince you to throw on a jacket, pull on your wellies and head outside. Visiting winter gardens is a great way to do this. And while there won't be quite so many blooms, the colder months bring their own unique treats. ...

So the late spring has in fact had quite an amazing affect on the garden as everything seems to have come at once. It's an awesome time in terms of colour and it's rare to admire irises, paeonies, roses, wisteria and cistus at the same time - I love it! It is like 3 months condensed into one. Gertrude Jekyll was a great colourist, it was one of her many...

**Head Gardener Claire Greenslade explores the concept of re-using old bicycle inner tubes to help new trees grow, and reduce plastic in the garden**: - Hessian ribbon degraded too well and needed replacing every few monthsAt Hestercombe we're really keen to be as green and ecologically minded as possible, and are always looking for more ways to improve. So...

**Best Things to do this Easter Weekend in Somerset and beyond**: Across Taunton, Somerset and Dorset, Easter is in the air and if you're looking for an Easter egg hunt, there are plenty of options for you and your little ones. Here’s our list of the best things to do this Easter weekend in the local area from doing an Easter egg hunt to food and drink...

**Visitors will notice a new feature as they take the main drive towards Hestercombe House.**: Visitors will notice a new feature as they take the main drive towards Hestercombe House. A body of water currently awaits restoration to be transformed into an original Water Garden that formerly graced the estate. The Water Garden is situated in the parkland...

Avery Gardens of Taunton, Somerset, a leading name in professional gardening services, is adding to its team! With over 15 years of experience in delivering top-notch commercial and domestic gardening solutions, we are excited to offer an opportunity for two new members to join our dynamic team. At Avery Gardens, you'll be part of a team that values...

**Today was the first of the Confident Gardener workshops at Hestercombe and we mastered apple pruning. Although very cold, we had dry weather and met a lovely bunch of people who had come to learn how to prune their trees at home. As with anything I am involved with, this also included a great deal of tea drinking and lots of general chat - about gardening...

Avery Gardens of Taunton, Somerset, a leading name in professional gardening services, is adding to its team! With over 15 years of experience in delivering top-notch commercial and domestic gardening solutions, we are excited to offer an opportunity for two new members to join our dynamic team. At Avery Gardens, you'll be part of a team that values...

If you wander up to the far reaches of the Landscape Garden here at Hestercombe, you’ll stumble upon our kiln. It’s not for firing clay and it’s not for heating glassit’s for the hot, dirty, smoky work of making charcoal. Tucked between the trees, close to the Cascades, stands the Charcoal Burner’s Camp, in an area once used for quarrying. For the...

ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Gardener at a Barchester care home, you'll help create the kind of stimulating environment that enables us to deliver quality, person-centred care. By maintaining our grounds to the highest standards, you'll ensure our home always makes a great first impression, and that our outside areas can be fully enjoyed by residents looking for some...

This week I have been getting quite strange looks from visitors. After a year or two of propagating plants we are ready to start following Jekyll's plan of planting up the walls around the plat. Lutyens and Jekyll had such a strong working relationship that Lutyens has built the walls and left gaps specifically for Jekyll to plant into. So the vertical...

In the next two weekends the focus at Hestercombe is all about light - in the form of Illumina. The gardens are transformed by night with the work of Ulf Pederson who will light up the gardens with his light projections. It's a fantastic event and I highly recommend you come even if just to see the garden in a different perspective. Even if you know that...

There’s little better than a butterfly fluttering past, a bee buzzing by or a dragonfly darting through when you’re pottering in the garden. You can make those chance encounters more likely by embracing wildlife gardening. Luckily, finding the balance between a wildlife garden and beautiful planting is easier than you might think. Here, we suggest five...

meaning that we can overwinter more plants. It is exciting times for us, so to get us fired up and to refresh our memories about glasshouse work, we arranged for a one day course, just for us, at Bicton college. We spent the day in the glasshouse with Janice Hindley, who took us through several propagation techniques, seed sowing, and glasshouse pest and...

Gnomes...a bit like Marmite I guess - split the population between gnome lovers and gnome haters. And it's probably a generational thing. I am definitely in the gnome loving category. If fact when Pete (my partner), Gracie (step daughter) and me go off in our caravan we take our gnome with us, mind you we also take the dog and the hamster. Gracie has made...

If you are ambitious, enjoy a challenge and want a meaningful career that can help improve people’s lives, we can offer an exciting and varied career as a Recruitment Consultant. The Best Connection is a market leader within our sector and offer industry leading training and career progression. Whether you have recruitment experience or not, this is the...

Photo by _Rui Dias_ from Pexels_ Here at Hestercombe we were beginning (pre-lockdown) to establish a number of activities aimed at improving health and wellbeing of our visitors, such as yoga, mindfulness and of course our annual Woodland Wander. Just by coming to visit Hestercombe and enjoying a walk around our 50 acres of gardens you’ll almost certainly...

**Nestled in tranquil countryside and boasting sweeping lawns, three stunning historic gardens and the iconic light-filled Orangery, it’s no wonder Hestercombe's Somerset wedding venue is one of the most idyllic wedding venues in the Southwest.**: **Venues**: With a selection of gorgeous venues from grand and formal to small and intimate, all situated in...