Arranged as a collection of annual photos telling the story in slideshows of the land project at The Garden House since 2013.
2025
Winter sun through the 11 year old woodland 
Volunteers having fun in the winter sun having cleaned the polytunnel 
Hedgerow maintenance with The Growth Team from Surrey Choices 
Willow cutting session in February 2025 
Willow on its way to a new home! 
End of March evening at the pond 
Gardening with scent – Verbena Burkwoodii – gorgeous scent! 
Apple blossom in the orchard 
Preparing a new plant nursery 
2025 – The year of the Cherry Plum 
Workshop participants with fair games made for the Rotary Spring Fair 2025, in Godalming 
Ben setting up strings for sweet peas on a frame made from our woodland thinnings 
Beetroot! 
Day Lilly, freshly showered 
Next generation of coots on the pond 
Honey bees gathering on a tree after swarming and awaiting the finding of a new home 
Re-homed bees 
Water lilies on the dipping pond 
St. Joseph’s Specialist Trust helping with grounds maintenance at The Garden House 
Laxton’s Fortune, looking resplendent 
First successful harvest of grapes 
Pears – Doyenne du Comice 
Quince – Vranja 
Harvest time! – Winter Gem 
Arch of Winter Gem 
Volunteer Simon and Bramley 20 windfalls 
Andy and Ben in the orchard apple picking 
Jenny Greenland – local artist 
Orchard painting by Jenny Greenland 
Potatoes! 
Pastel colours in The Garden 
The Garden 2025 
Wasp spider 
Oh, the fun we have! 
Richard’s bowl – fresh off the lathe
2024
Rhubarb time! 11th April 2024 
Rare northern lights experience at The Garden House 
Norfolk Reed looking grand on a cold winter’s morning in the big pond, 11th January 2024. 
Beautiful morning in the bare orchard, 18th January 2024. 
St. Joseph’s volunteers planting foxgloves around the stumpery. 
Brave participants pollarding the willow on a particularly rainy day. 
Willow gratefully received and being collected for community projects. 
A tree had to be replaced, but an opportunity to try an ‘Adam’s Pearmain’, 7th March 2024. 
First thinnings of the woodland after 10 years growth. Selected trees were felled to give the others more space to grow. 
St. Joseph’s staff and student mid wheelbarrow puncture repair. 
The orchard in bloom – a lovely time of year. 
Making use of the woodland thinnings – framework created in conjunction with the workshop and Thursday morning volunteers to support a rose. 
St. Joseph’s gatherings to celebrate a fun session had at The Garden House. 
Volunteers from The Growth Team, Surrey Choices, keeping the paths clear. Thank you! 
After many years of deer damage, shade and vegetative competition, an electric fence has finally allowed a difficult to establish section of hedge to fill in. 
A pleasingly green spring and early summer – 6th June, 2024. A wet and sunny spring has been great for lush green vegetation. 
Andy Holdaway, Estate Manager, checking on the over-wintered garlic. 
How satisfying! Simon and his first find of maincrop potatoes this year – Thursday Pop-In – Garden session 
Thank you for all of your help with the apple harvest this year, Irit and many others! 
Using willow from the estate to make Christmas wreaths – The flexible colourful stems are an annual focus for creativity. 
Finished for another day!
2023
A frosty evening at the woodland pond 
Volunteers from Halow ‘unpacking’ the woodland – tree guards and mulch mats being removed after 10 years. 
Adam’s first go at using a lathe – successfully making a light pull! 
It is always lovely in the orchard when the apple blossom comes out, around the beginning of May. 
Salad crop looking good, grown from saved seed. Winter Density (Left), Salad bowl (Front Right) 
Pea plants slid from sowing in compost in suspended gutter in polytunnel into resting place, with ‘pea sticks’ to offer support. Weel done, Adam! 
Legumes and sweetcorn all sown in suspended guttering after mice ate first attempts on the bench – Guttering was a big success! 
Nic had a good year with his bees producing a good amount of honey. 
The enticing water of the main pond. 
Ben taking a well earned break in the garden – Thanks Ben! – The Longest Serving Volunteer Award goes to you! 
A new sign went up for the garden, made in the workshop. 
Echinops in the foreground and the 12 foot high runner beans in the background. 
Successful cucumber crop, though needed peeling, due to tough skins – Thought to be Telegraph Improved, but looks nothing like! 
Pleased to add some variation to our salad crop this year with ‘Salanova’ 
An effort is being made to encourage more wildflowers around the trees in the orchard. 
A pleasing mix of garden flowers attracts all kinds of insects – here we have persicaria. 
Just some of the fruit picked and delivered to The Godalming and Villages Community Store (food bank). 
We see roe and muntjac deer from time-to-time around the estate (Unusually close on this occasion). 
We needed a ladder this year to harvest runner beans and French beans up to about 12 feet! 
Just some of the food for wildlife encouraged around the estate – ‘haws’ (hawthorn berries) 
Lots of lovely fruit this year in the orchard – here we see some early Howgate Wonder.
2022
Special frosty morning near the big pond 
Winter light on the back track trees 
Fruit tree pruning in the orchard 
Cold but golden! 
A magnificent evening view beyond the orchard 
Ben collecting up rabbit guards and Matt finishing the willow cutting – Thanks everyone! 
Di and Jo with ‘Hope’ for a new garden – made in The Garden House Workshop 
Daffodils in the sunshine, bringing some colour back after the winter. 
Blossom out in the orchard in April. 
Beautiful blossom on an orchard apple tree. 
The rhubarb planted in 2021 forming well in the orchard – rabbit and deer seem not to be interested in our rhubarb 
The Growth Team from Surrey Choices, helping with the removal of tree mats – which have supressed weeds, but now need removing (currently 9 years after planting). 
The weeping cherry – exrtremely popular with the bees. 
The woodland ditch slowly beginning to blend in. 
Bluebells being encouraged to spread along the hedgerow of the orchard. 
Dianne pleased with her first creation on a lathe – a calibrated dibber – made in The Garden House Workshop. 
Ferns loving the wet late spring of 2022 
Foxgloves planted coming into flower at the stumpery at the end of May. 
Top bed in The Garden – including Dianthus, Lupins and Salvia 
Jenny Greenland, professional artist tries out the maturing landscape for a painting. 
The Circle in the woodland 
Professional photographer, Nick Whittle visits The Garden House and photographs the baby coots across the pond. 
A baby coot is given a feed. 
Halow – Building Futures – The team were at The Garden House, fruit thinning and weeding in the orchard and finished the day with some woodland path maintenance – and they were still smiling!
2021
Real Snow! 
Caroline’s fine woodpecker made in willow 
One of the babies from the first ever clutch of coots hatched at The Garden House 
A family of Egyptian Geese, hatched at The Garden House 
The Welly Walk in May, arranged by the National Childbirth Trust (NCT), Godalming and Cranleigh District 
Steve carving out another spoon! 
Participants working on shaving horses 
Ragged Robin – Silene flos-cuculi 
Volunteers about to roll out 30 metres of new liner for an extension to the ditch leading into the woodland pond 
The Garden – drip irrigation pipe now in place 
Salad grown at The Garden House (Red Frills mustard, Salad Bowl lettuce, Merveille de Quatre Saison lettuce, and cherry tomatoes) 
Plants for sale on our ‘pop-up’ stall 
Helpful volunteers from Halow planting dogwood shrubs 
Wild flowers growing on the sandy bank by the main pond 
The woodland pond is looking more mature this year – it is now a home for newts! 
Slow Please! We are trying to keep the speed of traffic down to support the activities going on around the estate 
Pleasing growth in the woodland this year – ground during the main growing season remained mostly damp, except a couple of brief dry spells 
Great to see Nic and his workshop team back in action after the Covid-19 lockdown 
The new ditch and bridges finally made it into existence after being mothballed as a project through the lockdown period 
A fine looking water lily of the ‘chrome’ coloured variety in the small pond – Nymphae Barbara Dobbins 
The Stumpery looking well, created with volunteer help from St. Joseph’ s Specialist School 
Halow volunteers gathering up hedge cuttings to add to the dead hedges 
Despite the coldest April in 60 years, according to the BBC, we had some nice pears this year 
Volunteers with the Guildford group of Surrey Choices helping to pick apples in the orchard 
Not a good harvest of apples this year. Was it the cold April or just an off year? 
The glorious corner beech tree in its autumn splendour! 
Ben supporting Halow volunteers with the planting of English bluebells – Hyacinthoides non-scripta 
Working on a new section of hard standing with the Growth Team from Surrey Choices 
The main pond looking beautiful in the autumn sun! Thank you so much to everyone who has helped this year at The Garden House!
2020
Top of The Garden June 2020 
Trough pond and polytunnel June 2020 
Poppies and a blue sky 
A badger wandering about at The Garden House 
The ditch feeding into the woodland pond had a test run in wet March 2020 
We’ve made a bridge over the ditch in the woodland 
Compost bays completed spring 2020 
Salad crop – Winter Density and Red Mustard 
Broom 
The Garden in April 2020 
A honey bee at work on the apple blossom 
The orchard one late April evening 
Sky over the estate clear of aircraft contrails during the Covid-19 lockdown 
The Stumpery created in the spring of 2020 with the assistance of St. Joseph’s Specialist Trust 
The Garden at The Garden House in April 2020 
Radishes ‘Prinz Rotin’ (red) and ‘Ping Pong’ (white) 
Salad grown at The Garden House 
Bags of salad grown at The Garden House 
2019
Volunteers on tea break, enjoying the results of their efforts in the garden 
The Surrey Group of The Association of Pole Lathe Turners and Green Woodworkers 
Butterfly – Common Blue – Some of the great wildlife seen at The Garden House 
2019 Apple Harvest 
Brian at work in The Workshop 
Chilly start! 
The Woodland on a chilly morning 
Trees coming out of the deer guard tubes Winter 2019/20 
Great job, The Growth Team! 
Ben receives a Gold Award on behalf of The Garden House team 
Wildlife Garden Award 2019 for The Garden House Garden 
Oak Tree, meadow mown and woodland autumn 2019 
Autumn 2019 – Woodland mowing just done 
The Dragonfly Gate 
Water lilies on a lovely summer day 
Water lilies expanding 2019 
The Garden in it’s first year of establishment 2019 
Woodland Pond
2018
The Garden House Workshop Team 
Bless you Veronica. Your gate. 
Bulrushes maturing in the pond 
Nic putting up a fruit cage 
Marcus collecting nettles for the compost heap 
Thanks to Halow volunteers who helped to dig the polytunnel foundations 
Cat sows the first batch of lettuces in the new garden 
Thanks to the Halow volunteers who helped to bring in soil to level the new polytunnel 
Newly planted daffodils in flower 
Cold looking orchard 
Snow on the pond 
A touch of colour – Willow ‘Britzensis’ 
Steve demonstrating some good winter pruning 
Snowy pond area 
Apple harvest 
‘Black Cherry’ tomatoes sold at Hambledon Village Shop 
Bulrushes maturing 
The Growth Team from Surrey Choices wood-chipping the paths in the garden
2017
Volunteers take a well earned break 
Halow volunteers help to create the woodland path 
Halow volunteers with some of the apple harvest 
The Growth Team from Surrey Choices in the newly dug woodland pond 
Water lilies flowering in the dipping pond 
A buggy walk 
The Growth Team working on the woodland pond 
Borage and the apiary 
Wildflowers by the pond 
The main pond 
Pond maintenance 
Flowering Rush – Butomus Umbellatus 
Winter pruning 
Blossom time in the orchard 
Sue and Andy 
Halow working on dipping pond margins 
A fine looking early crop! 
2016
An apiary is started 
Making hazel revetments to retain soil for planting in margins 
Halow working on the large pebble beach 
A platform to create easy access for activities such as dipping 
‘Dolly’ comes to visit 
Grass left longer for clover flowers to feed bees and other insects 
‘Discovery’ apples 
Plants lined up for planting 
Newly planted pond margin 
Willow establishing in protective tubes by pond 
Woodland after being mowed 
Looking at pond from Veronica’s Gate 
Area of woodrush in woodchippings by small pebble beach 
The Orchard 
Harvesting cider apples 
Crab apples 
Ice on the dipping pond 
Ice on the main pond 
A chilly start to the day!
2015
Evergreen shrubs planted 
Winter pruning 
The site of the main pond just before work commences 
First bulldozer work on main pond 
Clay is brought in to line pond 
Clay lined pond 
Looking down the field towards the finished pond 
Split chestnut fencing of paddocks under way 
New post and rail fencing visible behind new woodland 
Trees growing out of protective
tubes
A pond is born! 
Looking towards the pond from Veronica’s Gate direction 
Green woodworking at The Garden House – the start of things to come! 
Paddocks and pond 
New woodland in summer 
Young woodland 
Selective mowing to retain habitat value of long grass 
Looking up hill at the orchard 
Apple harvest time 
Winter returns
2014
The Christmas floods of 2014 created a temporary pond for 3 months 
…Not great for newly planted trees (they were moved after the flooding subsided) 
Looking down the field at flooded area 
Work commences on creating a deer fence around a paddock to enable a new orchard to be planted 
Ready for orchard planting 
Volunteers help to plant the orchard trees 
Trees and supports in place 
Looking towards Hambledon Road 
The new orchard 
Orchard establishing 
Young trees in the pond area before being moved for pond creation 
The Orchard
2013
The Garden House 