Thank you Davey P for publicising The University of Newcastle Botanical Gardens at Moorbank for which my wife Sheila and I run the outside volunteers, the only gardening that takes place in the fairly intensive 4 acre garden outside. I hardly need to say that we are kept very busy and have a lot of fun when we meet on Friday mornings. If you want to join us, or to organise a visit to the garden, please email me at hightreesgarden@btinternet.com We open four times a year for NGS and the first opening in 2011 is on March 27th. As this is the day after the Northumberland Show, you could stay overnight in the NE and come along on the Sunday afternoon! As well as the excellent collections under glass, there is a lot to see outside with bulbs, shrubs, trees, alpine beds, rhodos and much more. Here are a few photos with Galanthus nivalis 'Sandersae' and 'Flore Pleno', Crocus 'Cream Beauty', and from last spring, Primula malvacea and Pulsatilla vernalis all flowering unprotected outside.
