7 February 2023
St Hugh’s Gardens in Winter by Head Gardener, Ed Reid
It seems strange to be writing this article in what feels like the first proper winter we’ve had in Oxford for a long time with temperatures only just getting over zero degrees - completely the opposite to the scorching summer we had in 2022! But this is actually how things should be at this time of year, and a good frost is a great way of killing pests and diseases.
The gardens did receive quite a battering during the summer heatwave, made even worse by the hose pipe ban, so things like th...
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