Christian Tait
@christiangardening.bsky.social
RHS Level 2 trained Estate Gardener at Overbury Court, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire 🌱🪴🌳
Up on Bredon Hill earlier this afternoon, foraging for Christmas wreath material (don’t tell the forestry department! 🤫 🤣)
#estategardener #bredonhill #cotswolds
#estategardener #bredonhill #cotswolds
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Up on Bredon Hill earlier this afternoon, foraging for Christmas wreath material (don’t tell the forestry department! 🤫 🤣)
#estategardener #bredonhill #cotswolds
#estategardener #bredonhill #cotswolds
Reflecting on a beautiful day whilst mulching in the gardens today. 😆
#reflection #reflections #gardener
#reflection #reflections #gardener
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Reflecting on a beautiful day whilst mulching in the gardens today. 😆
#reflection #reflections #gardener
#reflection #reflections #gardener
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.
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#gardener #estategardener
Looking great in the sun today for #nationaltreeweek … a wonderful London Plane and a gorgeous Blue Cedar.
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#gardener #estategardener
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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.
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#gardener #estategardener
Looking great in the sun today for #nationaltreeweek … a wonderful London Plane and a gorgeous Blue Cedar.
🌳🌲
#gardener #estategardener
Happy Friday ☺️
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Happy Friday ☺️
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
A tad cooooooold! Beanie on all day! (Don’t say I wasn’t working quickly enough!)
#gardener #gardening #wintergardening
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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
A tad cooooooold! Beanie on all day! (Don’t say I wasn’t working quickly enough!)
#gardener #gardening #wintergardening
Winter / early spring flowering Clematis cirrhosa, currently in flower on The Court building.
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#clematis #clematiscirrhosa #gardening
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#clematis #clematiscirrhosa #gardening
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Winter / early spring flowering Clematis cirrhosa, currently in flower on The Court building.
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#clematis #clematiscirrhosa #gardening
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#clematis #clematiscirrhosa #gardening
Greeted by a queue of sheep when I arrived at work on Monday 😆
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#sheep #cotswolds #gardeninglife
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#sheep #cotswolds #gardeninglife
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Greeted by a queue of sheep when I arrived at work on Monday 😆
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#sheep #cotswolds #gardeninglife
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#sheep #cotswolds #gardeninglife
Bulb planting some beds and containers this morning. Tulips, alliums and kamassias.
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#bulbs #bulbplanting #gardener #gardening #autumngardening
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#bulbs #bulbplanting #gardener #gardening #autumngardening
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Bulb planting some beds and containers this morning. Tulips, alliums and kamassias.
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#bulbs #bulbplanting #gardener #gardening #autumngardening
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#bulbs #bulbplanting #gardener #gardening #autumngardening
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.
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#autumn #autumngardening #gardener #gardening #overbury #cotswolds #blueskies
A lovely day cutting back herbaceous plants in the west terrace borders … as well as the obligatory autumn leaf clearance.
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#autumn #autumngardening #gardener #gardening #overbury #cotswolds #blueskies
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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
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
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
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
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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
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
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! ☺️
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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! ☺️
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
#kitchengarden #kitchengardening #gardener #gardening
March 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
#kitchengarden #kitchengardening #gardener #gardening
March 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Lovely Snake’s Head Fritillary - Fritillarea meleagris popping up on the bank of the west lawn this week.
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#fritillareameleagris #snakesheadfritillary #gardening #gardener
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#fritillareameleagris #snakesheadfritillary #gardening #gardener
March 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Lovely Snake’s Head Fritillary - Fritillarea meleagris popping up on the bank of the west lawn this week.
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#fritillareameleagris #snakesheadfritillary #gardening #gardener
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#fritillareameleagris #snakesheadfritillary #gardening #gardener
Was supposed to be mowing day today … but decided to do some work in the potting shed and greenhouse instead. 😆 #snow #marchsnow #gardening #gardener
March 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Was supposed to be mowing day today … but decided to do some work in the potting shed and greenhouse instead. 😆 #snow #marchsnow #gardening #gardener
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. 😊🌼🌼🌼
March 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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. 😊🌼🌼🌼
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!
March 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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!
Beautiful European Comma butterfly in my own garden yesterday afternoon. Happily chilling in the sun on my Phormium.
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#butterfly #butterflies #europeancommabutterfly
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#butterfly #butterflies #europeancommabutterfly
March 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Beautiful European Comma butterfly in my own garden yesterday afternoon. Happily chilling in the sun on my Phormium.
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#butterfly #butterflies #europeancommabutterfly
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#butterfly #butterflies #europeancommabutterfly
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. ☺️💚
February 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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. ☺️💚
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.
February 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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.
Eek! It’s that time of year again (and one of my favourite times) … Hellabore time 😊🌸
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#hellabore #hellabores #hellaborus #gardening #gardener #estategardener #overbury
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#hellabore #hellabores #hellaborus #gardening #gardener #estategardener #overbury
February 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Eek! It’s that time of year again (and one of my favourite times) … Hellabore time 😊🌸
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#hellabore #hellabores #hellaborus #gardening #gardener #estategardener #overbury
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#hellabore #hellabores #hellaborus #gardening #gardener #estategardener #overbury
Sorting supports out for our climbing beans and sweet peas today in the kitchen garden. Using natural hazel sticks, coppiced from local woodland stands.
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February 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Sorting supports out for our climbing beans and sweet peas today in the kitchen garden. Using natural hazel sticks, coppiced from local woodland stands.
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#kitchengardening #gardener #estategardening
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#kitchengardening #gardener #estategardening
A perfect Friday afternoon busying in the glasshouse - tidying, watering, feeding and checking for pesky pests.
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#greenhouse #glasshouse #gardener #gardening #fridaytidy #fridayvibes #gardeningbluesky
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February 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A perfect Friday afternoon busying in the glasshouse - tidying, watering, feeding and checking for pesky pests.
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#greenhouse #glasshouse #gardener #gardening #fridaytidy #fridayvibes #gardeningbluesky
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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. 😊
February 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A family walk and a bit of larking about at beautiful Tortworth Lake, South Gloucestershire this morning. First open weekend of the year. 😊
Helping the Overbury Enterprises farm team with some apple tree pruning in some orchards today - beautiful day for it.
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#appletreepruning #treepruning #appleorchards #estategardening #estategardener #estatework #horticulture
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#appletreepruning #treepruning #appleorchards #estategardening #estategardener #estatework #horticulture
January 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Helping the Overbury Enterprises farm team with some apple tree pruning in some orchards today - beautiful day for it.
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#appletreepruning #treepruning #appleorchards #estategardening #estategardener #estatework #horticulture
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#appletreepruning #treepruning #appleorchards #estategardening #estategardener #estatework #horticulture