Following closely on the heels of the amazing 25th anniversary Shaldon Festival we bring you more glorious music - in the open air. Saturday July 19th is Italian Masquerade day. Beginning in afternoon FunkyJunk mask crafting and leaning towers of pizza 3.00 - 5.00 pm,...

For the Botanical Gardeners this is the summer of the Italian Garden - specialist advisers have visited, inspected and commented in some detail. Armed with their advice and with new volunteers to join the regular working party our June work day turned into something...

Shortly after he was introduced to the new local pastime of catching a bouncy egg in a small bucket, Councillor Clarance officially opened the fully restored rill garden. It was a beautiful sunny spring morning just right for photographing working councillors, egg...

Towards the end of winter we devoted a work session to cleaning out the planting pockets around the big pond, long impacted with reed, bramble, rose of sharon, honeysuckle etc. Every year we cut it down but this year the team took it out completely - probably the...

The high winds on St Valentine's Day have caused yet more damage. Another big pine tree near the castle has come down, damaging the retaining wall and a smaller tree in its path. Several trees have lost branches, one by the Witch's Cave and another near the allotments...

We now have a lovely new pair of compost bins which will help us recycle the garden prunings.

As well as the Corsican Pine tree that came down by the castle, another smaller tree came down near the new planting by Horse Lane. Well done to Teignbridge staff for clearing this away so quickly and getting started on the big one too.

The violent storms over the last few days have claimed another casualty - a large Corsican Pine tree at the top of the gardens has come down just missing the castle by inches.