Christian Tait
@christiangardening.bsky.social
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RHS Level 2 trained Estate Gardener at Overbury Court, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire 🌱🪴🌳
Hibernating ladybirds 😍 Found while fruit tree pruning this afternoon … we left them where they were. ☺️
#ladybirds
#gardening
#hibernation
5 days ago
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Tree planting this morning in woodlands on the wider estate. A mix of Hornbeam, Beech and Birch. 🌳 🌳
#treeplanting
#estategardener
#estatemanagement
6 days ago
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Busy sowing sweet peas this morning. There’s lots of methods talked about sweet pea sowing - soaking the seeds, nicking them with a knife, sanding them, placing them on damp tissue to germinate. I’m sowing directly in seed compost, watering and covering with propagator lids. What’s your method?
7 days ago
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Refreshing tree circles and pruning fruit trees in the Old Kitchen Garden this afternoon … in beautiful sunshine no less 😊☀️ Lovely mix of trees including apples, pears, cherries, plums and medlars.
#gardening
#treepruning
#fruittrees
8 days ago
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Got away pretty lightly with Storm Goretti at work. Awful drive home in the rain last night, but only a smattering of snow at work in the Cotswolds this morning.
#stormgoretti
#gardener
#gardening
11 days ago
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Some clearance work around estate farm buildings yesterday. Lots of bramble and self-seeded trees growing in the wrong places. 🤦🏻♂️
#estategardener
#gardening
#january
13 days ago
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Winter Wisteria pruning in the sun yesterday. ✂️ ☀️
#gardener
#pruning
#wisteria
14 days ago
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A chilly but beautiful return to work and the kitchen garden this morning. 🥶 ☀️ ❄️
#gardener
#backtowork
#januaryvibes
15 days ago
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Up above the mist and in glorious sunshine on a North Nibley New Year’s Eve walk this morning. Nice to get some sunshine at last, instead of the grey cloud drab we seem to have been under most of the festive season.
#walk
#blueskies
#northnibleymonument
20 days ago
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Decent sunrise this morning on my last working day of the year ☺️ Season’s greetings folks - hope you have happy times over the next couple of weeks.
#estategardener
#seasonsgreetings
#sunrise
about 1 month ago
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Wonderful light with this morning’s sunrise at work … and even a cheeky rainbow to top it all. 😊
#rainbow
#sunlight
#estategardener
about 1 month ago
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Final pre-Christmas tidy of the kitchen garden today. He’s good at camouflaging himself, but the keen-eyed may be able to find a lesser spotted Jon working away. 😆
#kitchengardening
#gardening
#gardener
about 1 month ago
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Great work by the garden team this week, making Christmas wreaths. Now up and around the Court and Old Village Shop. 🎄🎅🏼
#christmaswreaths
#gardening
#wreathmaking
about 1 month ago
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Head gardener Harry cutting the Christmas tree for the Overbury Enterprises estate office last week. Doesn’t get fresher than that - probably took longer to decorate! 🌲 ➡️ 🎄
#gardening
#christmastree
#overbury
about 1 month ago
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Up on Bredon Hill earlier this afternoon, foraging for Christmas wreath material (don’t tell the forestry department! 🤫 🤣)
#estategardener
#bredonhill
#cotswolds
about 2 months ago
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Reflecting on a beautiful day whilst mulching in the gardens today. 😆
#reflection
#reflections
#gardener
about 2 months ago
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Lucky to have some impressive tree specimens around the gardens and wider estate. Looking great in the sun today for
#nationaltreeweek
… a wonderful London Plane and a gorgeous Blue Cedar. 🌳🌲
#gardener
#estategardener
about 2 months ago
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Happy Friday ☺️
about 2 months ago
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There was beautiful sunshine in parts of the garden today, but for some idiotic reason, I ended up choosing to work in all the shady sections 🤣🤦🏻♂️ A tad cooooooold! Beanie on all day! (Don’t say I wasn’t working quickly enough!)
#gardener
#gardening
#wintergardening
about 2 months ago
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Winter / early spring flowering Clematis cirrhosa, currently in flower on The Court building. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
#clematis
#clematiscirrhosa
#gardening
about 2 months ago
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Greeted by a queue of sheep when I arrived at work on Monday 😆 🐑 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
#sheep
#cotswolds
#gardeninglife
2 months ago
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Bulb planting some beds and containers this morning. Tulips, alliums and kamassias. .
#bulbs
#bulbplanting
#gardener
#gardening
#autumngardening
2 months ago
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Wow! Such a huge contrast in the weather today, compared with last Friday’s washout. A lovely day cutting back herbaceous plants in the west terrace borders … as well as the obligatory autumn leaf clearance. 🤩🍁🍂
#autumn
#autumngardening
#gardener
#gardening
#overbury
#cotswolds
#blueskies
2 months ago
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Extremely glad of the shelter of the potting shed today! Biblical rain out there. Busy tidying and sorting, as well as planting some bulbs in pots for forcing, which will be used for flower displays in the house in the spring.
#gardening
#gardener
2 months ago
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Hey
@francesca-laura.bsky.social
did you see our old RHS Level 2 tutor Tim Foster on Gardener’s World on Friday? Great to see him and his fruit tree knowledge again! ☺️
2 months ago
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A perfect kitchen garden day. Planting out salad crops, potting on, seed sowing, watering and weeding. All that under a perfect blue sky - shorts and tee shirt too. 😊☀️
#kitchengarden
#kitchengardening
#gardener
#gardening
10 months ago
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Can’t beat a decent bit of Primula vulgaris 😊
#primrose
#primulavulgaris
#garden
#gardening
#spring
10 months ago
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Lovely Snake’s Head Fritillary - Fritillarea meleagris popping up on the bank of the west lawn this week. .
#fritillareameleagris
#snakesheadfritillary
#gardening
#gardener
10 months ago
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Was supposed to be mowing day today … but decided to do some work in the potting shed and greenhouse instead. 😆
#snow
#marchsnow
#gardening
#gardener
10 months ago
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Love a bit of Daffodil ‘Tête-à-tête’ … so cheery. They’re small but they always seem to pack a punch at this time of year. 😊🌼🌼🌼
11 months ago
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Me ‘working’ last Friday in my full time job as an estate gardener in the Cotswolds. Sometimes have to pinch myself I get paid to do this!
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11 months ago
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Beautiful European Comma butterfly in my own garden yesterday afternoon. Happily chilling in the sun on my Phormium. .
#butterfly
#butterflies
#europeancommabutterfly
11 months ago
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New life in the glasshouse today - our seed sowings springing into life! Including, parsley, chicory, rocket, cabbage and lamb’s lettuce. Sweet peas are coming up in pots elsewhere and broad bean plants got planted out in the sunshine today. It really felt like spring had arrived. ☺️💚
11 months ago
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Spotted what I thought was a ‘different’ type of snowdrop last week - in one of my workplaces rental properties. I think it’s actually Leucojum vernum “Spring snowflakes” - slightly larger and should flower a bit later in spring. Lovely open flower head with yellow petal tips.
11 months ago
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Eek! It’s that time of year again (and one of my favourite times) … Hellabore time 😊🌸 .
#hellabore
#hellabores
#hellaborus
#gardening
#gardener
#estategardener
#overbury
11 months ago
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Sorting supports out for our climbing beans and sweet peas today in the kitchen garden. Using natural hazel sticks, coppiced from local woodland stands. .
#kitchengardening
#gardener
#estategardening
11 months ago
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A perfect Friday afternoon busying in the glasshouse - tidying, watering, feeding and checking for pesky pests. . 🪴🪴🪴
#greenhouse
#glasshouse
#gardener
#gardening
#fridaytidy
#fridayvibes
#gardeningbluesky
12 months ago
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A family walk and a bit of larking about at beautiful Tortworth Lake, South Gloucestershire this morning. First open weekend of the year. 😊
12 months ago
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Helping the Overbury Enterprises farm team with some apple tree pruning in some orchards today - beautiful day for it. 😊🌳✂️🍏🍎
#appletreepruning
#treepruning
#appleorchards
#estategardening
#estategardener
#estatework
#horticulture
12 months ago
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