Ring in the Olympics at Clumber Park

At 08:12 on 27th July 2012, thousands of people across the UK will be joining together to ring in the first day of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games as part of the 'All the Bells' project.

Work No. 1197: All the bells in a country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes by Turner Prize-winning artist and musician Martin Creed is a London 2012 Festival commission and will be performed by you.

Join the Clumber Park team and be one of millions taking part in this historical event.

The theme at Clumber Park is bycicle bells - so bring your bike and join us by the Lake outside the Chapel just before 8.12am.  The first ring of the Chapel's tonne bell will mark the start of a 3 minute bicycle bell ring at Clumber.  If you have a bike, but don't have a bell you can pick one up from the cycle hire centre.  If you don't have a bike, why not come along and listen to the bells anyway or hire a bike and take a cycle ride around Clumber after the bell ringing - we're hoping it will be a unique 3 minutes to remember!

If you're not an early bird and need a pick me up, the Clumber cafe will be opening early on the 27th so you can pick up a coffee to wake you up!

We hope to see you there.

 

Flowering Fairies and Gardening Gnomes

It will soon be summer trail time again in the garden.  This year we are celebrating our garden helpers, the flower fairies and the garden gnomes.

The gnomes are great fun to have in the garden! They work very hard helping us with our jobs. They collect slugs and snails which damage our plants. They help feed the plants and they are great at weeding.

Some of them are very sporty. They’ve even entered a team in the London 2012 Olympics.

Mr Pilwinkle Gnome is always running laps around the garden. He’s entered the Marathon! Some of his friends have also entered other events, you’ll be able to see them practicing if you visit when the flowering fairies and gardening gnomes trail is running.


The fairies have been growing lots of flowers and fruit for everyone to see during the summer and our garden scarecrow fairy has been looking after the fairies in the soft fruit garden. She’s called Ruby Pomona. They have been casting spells on all the strawberries to make them delicious and juicy!
 

Everyone is really looking forward to the garden trail, and to seeing all our visitors dressed up as gnomes and fairies!

The trail will be running from 22 July to 2 September daily in the garden.

The trail is free to enter (normal garden entry fees apply).

Don't forget to keep a look out for the golden gnome!

Hope to see you there,
Hazel
Clumber Gardener