Friends of La Seigneurie Gardens gathered in the newly renovated Chapel this month for a midsummer garden party. With Pimms in hand the guests wandered around the walled garden that is looking stunning this month with many plants and flowers now in full bloom after a late and chilly spring. Most impressive is the millennium rose garden that was re-planted two winters ago with David Austin roses in shades of…

A crowd gathered near the end of L’Eperquerie last week to mark the completion of the restoration work on the Butts tower and remember the life of Dennis Hurden. The restoration work was organised by La Société Sercquaise and led by council member Jeremy La Trobe-Bateman and was partly paid for by a bequest from the Hurden family. Various other benefactors donated the rest of the money to cover the…