One of the beautiful things about working at Heritage Hill is that we’re surrounded by between one and two acres (depending on which document you read) of amazing gardens. This not only means flowers, plants and veggie gardens but it also means we get a lot of wildlife visiting or making Heritage Hill their home.
There are always birds in the gardens, singing songs of happiness and regret (we assume), we get a lot of butterflies fussing about the flowers, we have an expanding and contracting amount of possums who visit as well as our bee swarm that pops in from time to time but hasn’t really found the right tree to make a permanent home.
But today, we got to add a new animal to our wildlife checklist at the office door. Today we saw a rabbit, bolting from Laurel Lodge’s back lawn towards the rose garden. We raced up behind it to see where it would go next, but unfortunately rabbits run faster than humans and in the second or two it took us to arrive at the rose garden, it had disappeared.
But we’re happy to adopt it anyway, as long as it doesn’t eat too many of the plants, so if you see a rabbit running around near us, say hello! We’ve named it Henry, but it was gone before we could tell it that, so don’t be surprised if it doesn’t react to it’s name.
We didn’t get a photo of Henry, but here’s a super cute photo of a rabbit in someone else’s garden we found here
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Hot & Cool is on this Sunday! It’s an afternoon of live music, family friendly activities and entertainment in our historic gardens. Musicians Rosey and Nick Lovell will be playing chilled out tunes in the Rose Gardens, the Suitcase Rummage Market is back on the front lawn and it’s the last weekend of our current exhibition My World, You World.
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