We are delighted to be able to bring you a series of virtual garden tours, from the wonderful garden owners who would have opened their gardens over the coming months to raise funds for the Yorkshire Arboretum’s tree and woody plant collection.
This weekend would have seen the opening of Fossgyl, Alastair Fitter’s long 1 acre garden stretching from Huntington Road to the River Foss. There are perennials, alpines, a peat-free ‘peat’ garden, a woodland garden, a traditional orchard with 85 year old trees mixed with more recently planted specimen trees and shrubs, a meadow with fritillaries in spring and orchids in summer, and wet woodland by the river with oxlips in spring and a large new pond. There are more than 1,000 species of plant in the garden, including 250 natives.
Alastair has filmed and narrated the video-blog below over the past few days, highlighting some of the fantastic spring plantings . We hope that this brings you some joy at this difficult time for us all.
