Boscobel House

29/05/2026

🎋Garden Wildlife Week

It's Garden Wildlife Week and a great way you can help wildlife in your garden is by having areas of long grass. We only mow our meadow and the mound once a year which benefits many species.

🪺As well as allowing wildflowers to grow which provide pollen to bees and butterflies, long grass provides shelter to other invertebrates and small mammals which in turn can become food for hedgehogs, bats and birds including owls. It also provides a safe place for ground nesting birds to raise a family.

So why not put the mower away and see what wildlife you find in your garden?

28/05/2026

🐝Garden Wildlife Week

It's Garden Wildlife Week and one way you can encourage wildlife into your garden is to plant pollinator friendly plants.

🌸We have a variety of plants which we have put into the formal garden which bees and butterflies love. The chives are particularly popular with bees at the moment.
Along the hazel walk we have wildflowers such as red campion growing which attract pollinators as well as looking lovely in this informal section of the garden.

Share your photos of bees at Boscobel below!

28/05/2026

If you fancy a calm evening out 🌱we're doing an after‑hours garden tour on 18th June (5.30 - 7pm). You can meet the gardening team, hear how we care for the place, and soak up the early summer vibes.

Book now, limited tickets: https://bit.ly/BoscobelGardenTour

27/05/2026

🦆Garden Wildlife Week

It's Garden Wildlife Week and we love our pond here at Boscobel as it is home to a duck family including this male mallard as well as frogs and newts.

🦔We appreciate that not every garden has room for a large pond but you can create small ones by using things such as a washing up bowl submerged into the ground but make sure you add a rock for animals to use to climb out if they fall in. Ponds are also a great water source for small mammals such as hedgehogs and a place for birds to cool off in.

💧We make sure we fill up the old pig wallow with water for birds such as the house martins who make Boscobel their home every year. We often see them swooping over it, catching insects and collecting mud to help build their nests.

26/05/2026

🌳Garden Wildlife Week

It's Garden Wildlife Week and an important feature in our garden for wildlife, in particular birds are hedges.

Hedges and small trees create the perfect safe place for small birds to build a nest. We frequently see robins hopping in and out of our holly hedge with a beak full of yummy worms for their chicks. The fruit and berries grown on hedges can provide vital food for birds and other creatures such as toads and mice can find shelter in and under hedges

🐦You should avoid cutting hedges between March and September as this is the main nesting season for birds.

21/05/2026

😱😮😮😮Don't be late for school on Monday! Experience a Victorian lesson taught by our school ma'am, Miss King . 2pm prompt. Hands and nails will be inspected!🫡🫡
Back by popular demand! ♥️☕🚴👀🤲🤲✍️✍️

20/05/2026

🐝Happy World Bee Day!🐝

We are lucky enough to have lots of bees in the garden, buzzing around the flowers! There are more than 270 species of this wonderful pollinator in the UK but many are under threat due to factors such as climate change and pesticide use.

🌿You can help by growing a garden full of nectar rich plants, having a source of water for thirsty bees and avoiding spraying chemicals near open flowers.

🌸We find that bees seem to particularly like the following flowers in our garden here at Boscobel: Chives, Geraniums, Oregano, Cardoon, Sedum and Rosemary.

20/05/2026

19/05/2026

🌸Bearded irises (Iris germanica) are blooming across the gardens here at Boscobel!

These plants enjoy the sunshine and like to be planted with their rhizomes exposed so they can bake in the sun which encourages flowers to grow.☀

These beautiful plants add both height and colour to gardens as the flower spike can reach around a metre in height. We have three stunning shades of purple in the garden. Which is your favourite?

18/05/2026

We had a local cycle group join us in the tearoom for refreshments this morning taking full advantage of our fabulous scone for £1 with any hot drink offer! Thank you all 😁 ☀️🚴☕🧡