Compton Verney Blogs

Can you believe the summer holidays are here already? Come along to Compton Verney for six weeks of activities for intrepid explorers!   Compton Verney’s Summer Adventure There’s so much to do at Compton Verney, from exploring the galleries to racing down Wellingtonia Avenue, you couldn’t possible cram it all into one visit. Did...

As you may know, the park and wider landscape at Compton Verney, as well as being a designed landscape, features many different ecological habitats that are very attractive to wild flowers and creatures. Whilst we naturally manage the venue for its landscape garden qualities, we are also therefore, very much aware of its ecological...

The British know how to queue, as evidenced during a long day of filming for the BBC Antiques Roadshow at Compton Verney on Tuesday 2 July. 5300 people came to have their treasures assessed and their family stories heard. They arrived with carrier bags and boxes, newspaper wrapped packages and carrying improbably large paintings,...

Compton Verney – the award-winning art gallery and park in Warwickshire – has announced Penny Egan CBE as its new Chair of Trustees. She will replace the current Chair Kirsten Suenson-Taylor, who is stepping down after an outstanding 8-year tenure on the board of the charitable trust at the end of the year. Compton...

We’re moving rapidly into the month of April now, and whilst I set out to deliver a March Landscape & Garden Update, such has been the workflow that an April update is just having to suffice! The variety of tasks the team has been involved with over the winter and early spring period has...

Fungi, as fascinating and prolific as they are, are a world away from the ‘comfortable’ horticultural world I occupy. They are hugely valuable though, and their presence in a natural landscape or garden offers much more than a short term unusual feature or splash of colour. For example,

Time Flies Time has certainly flown of late, as you’ll know by the scarcity of landscape articles since the summer! Back we are though with a busy autumn period, and enough on the task list to see us through to the New Year. First of all I have to make reference to The March of...

There are many times in each year when we reach a milestone, and the honey harvest is certainly one of our favourites. As such, and knowing how many honey bee supporters there are out there, Rod Oates has prepared a short report about the year he’s experienced as volunteer bee keeper at Compton Verney: The long hard winter was a...