2015 has been a very busy year for the Uppark Garden team.
We have been preparing and dealing with 7 day-a-week opening, building a new glasshouse, creating a flower cutting garden, providing flower arrangements for the house, thinning out the woodland trees, hedgelaying in the car park, running garden and woodland events and much more at the same time as maintaining and enhancing the Uppark Garden.
In the forth coming year we’re going to be busier than ever with plans to create a recreation area in the west copse in the south meadow, reintroduce historic garden pathways, re-sculpt the Coade Urn mound, reshape some of the island beds, plant up regenerated borders and continue our progress with renewing sections of the wide glade borders.
2015 has been another good year for the Uppark blog. We have created marginally less (33) posts in 2015 than previous years and had 13,824 viewings. For a more detailed look at our post stats check out the WordPress end of year report.
uparkgarden/2015/annual-report/
We started the Uppark Blog back in 2011 and have had a great time producing 405 posts which has generated 75,486 blog views by 23,035 visitors, from 88 countries around the world. It has far outreached our expectations.
However, the Uppark Blog no longer fits with the National Trust business model and our ongoing commitments make it more difficult for us to find the time to create new and interesting posts. So it is with much regret that we have decided to stop posting and close the blog from the start of this new year.
All good things come to an end, as they say, but I hope you will agree that it was good while it lasted.
The Uppark blog has only been successful due to the authors efforts in creating the posts and to you the readers and followers for taking such an interest in what we have created.
So many thanks to all of our guest bloggers, followers and viewers. We hope that you have enjoyed our blog content and will continue to follow the events and changes at Uppark via Facebook and our National Trust – Uppark website.
Why not make one of your New Year resolutions to visit Uppark House and Garden in 2016.
From all here at Uppark we wish you a happy and prosperous New year and hope to see you at Uppark soon.
Editor’s note:
A great final blog from Alan and the rest of the blogging team. Thank you all for making the Uppark garden blog so special. If you’d like to follow me I’m on Twitter and Instagram here @andylewishg – own views naturally.
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Nice stats! It’s a shame to see this final blog post but given the way in which the garden team’s finite resources are stretched across so many existing and new projects, it’s hardly surprising!
Thank you. The blogs and wonderful photos have been great. I will miss them.
Many thanks for an interesting,informative and fun blog!
Many thanks for an interesting, informative and fun blog over the years!