Galanthus by the Gate

A few miles away from the Holkham Walled Garden is the pretty village of Warham, noted, not only for the remarkable pies served at the Three Horseshoes, but also for its famous place in the history of the Galanthus (snowdrop). Apparently bulbs were brought back from the Crimean War to the village.

This photograph may be of the Warham, or it could be the Washfield Warham. A peep through the ornate gates to the Walled Garden would be all that is needed for a 'Galanthophile' to decide. Jonathan Taylor, Deputy Head Gardener has enthusiastically  planted local varieties there.

In Pursuit of the Rabbits

Jonathan Taylor, Deputy Head Gardener at the Holkham Walled Garden has abandoned his expensive orange 'ferret finder' and is getting down, right down, to the serious business of defeating the rabbits.


Both ferret and rabbit have disappeared way down under the giant conifer into the network of tunnels. The future of the new young plants in the Holkham Walled Garden are at stake. Will the rabbit get away via a secret back entrance? Will the ferret decide he'd rather live in the tunnels? Will the Deputy Head Gardener get stuck in the rabbit burrow?

Glenn Working on the Wood Store

Temperatures are sub zero but Glenn Joyce, gardener in the Holkham Walled Garden is keeping warm before 8am splitting logs for the wood store with Jonathan Taylor, Deputy Head Gardener. Later in the day they set up the mechanical log splitter that works from the tractor.