Category Archives: Autumn

Winter at Rokewood

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Early July and winter is well and truly here in Bridgetown. We have had lots of cold weather but not a lot of rain.

The Autumn Garden Festival was a great success and we had about 200 garden visitors. Very popular were the samples of the heritage apples – Rokewood and Democrat. Both apples have a deep red skin so look very attractive on the tree. The Democrat has a dense texture and sweet flavour. The Rokewood not so dense and a little sweeter. I experimented with using them for cooking and made a Tarte Tatin with the Rokewood. Because of the dense texture of the apple all the syrup was soaked up by the apples and the result was a rather dry tart- tasted good though!

Rokewood apples                   Democrat apples

The winter camellias and azaleas are a bit slow to flower this year  – just starting to make an appearance.Winter camellias

 

 

Autumn Garden Festival

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Rokewood will be open for the Autumn Festival of Country Gardens on the weekend of 6-7 May. Come for a visit and you will be able to-

  • wander the garden and find the secret path

Secret path

  • find the “2 little blue wrens”

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  • examine and wonder at the construction of dry stone retaining walls constructed with excavated stones from the property
  • check out the heritage apple trees and taste a sliver of the “Rokewood” heritage apple
  • enjoy a cup of tea/coffee and home baked treats under the grape pergola, listen to the best in classical/gardening music from the CD player indoors, chat and share gardening stories with other visitors or leaf through the collection of gardening books on display
  • take your cup of tea/coffee and home baked treat to a quiet spot in the garden and listen and watch the birdsCup of tea

 

Autumn is coming!

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Still in summer mode, but there are a little hints that Autumn is coming

Preparations for the 2017 Autumn Festival of Country Gardens is underway. This is a magical time in the Bridgetown and surrounding towns when the nights are cool and the mornings crisp with sunny days. All conducive to producing the colourful foliage that is on display everywhere. Autumn Rokewood 1

A glut of peaches from a friends garden produced 2 lots of peach jam – Peach and Amaretto and Peach and Vanilla Jam and also bags of frozen peach slices. Yummy!