News

Published: February 2008

Enjoy Marks Hall in early spring with our winter walk to the snowdrops self guide sheet, the walk will lead you to the Snowdrops in Robins Grove highlighting a range of colour and scent to enjoy en route.

Published: January 2008

Great Britain has some fine veteran trees. BBC Essex's Renee came to visit to discuss one of the oldest in Essex - The Honywood Oak with our Curator Jonathan Jukes.

Published: December 2007

When our resident artist Liz Pottinger was removing the ceramic leaves and masks from the Greenman’s Den she made an interesting discovery.

Published: November 2007

BBC Essex's Renee Hockley-Byam visited recently to enjoy the autumn colour of not only native trees in the woodland but also exotics in the arboretum.

Published: October 2007

On Wednesday 17th October we held a very special tree planting. Professor Stephen Hopper, the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew planted the first in a grove of Wollemi Pines.

Published: October 2007

The result of 'A Walk on the Wild Side' from three local primary schools as we support The Big Draw.

Published: October 2007

We are extremley pleased to announce that we have an eight page article currently featuring in Octobers Gardens Illustrated.

Published: September 2007

Renee Hockley-Byam headed down to Marks Hall again and spoke to Jonathan Jukes to find out more about the grass snakes and the ivy.

Published: August 2007

Exciting news about a truly unique project: you may be aware of the recent discovery in Australia of a very rare and unusual species of tree, the Wollemi Pine. This really is a living fossil and we are planning to plant the first grove of these trees here at Marks Hall in our Gondwanaland area.

Published: August 2007

Our next activity is a special Summer Holiday Children’s Day on Wednesday 15th August.