Horticulture

Our walled garden is both productive and ornamental. We have raised beds, including a permanent asparagus bed, that are used for growing vegetables, while the fruit cage protects soft fruit from birds. Greenhouses are used to propagate vegetables, flowers and herbs as well as for greenhouse crops such as peppers, aubergines and tomatoes. All our produce is available for our gardeners to take home.

The Cottage Garden is an attractive ornamental garden with the wildlife pond as its focus, while the Avenue leading to the Herb Garden combines the ornamental with the productive, having espaliered apples and pears and climbing roses trained along its length. The Herb Garden revolves around a central, seated area where scent from the garden can be enjoyed as we sit in the shade of the pleached Hornbeams around the outside.

Our Knot Garden has been laid out to a precise design and we have recently added a new seating area surrounded by trellis and some grassy mounds, one of which can be used to get an elevated view of the garden.

We continue to develop this wonderful space that we have, allowing gardeners the opportunity to bring their own ideas to bear.

Since the initial creation of the organisation, we refrained from using chemical fertilisers and pesticides as much as possible. Employing organic principles of horticulture and attempting to work in harmony with nature encourages an appreciation of our environment and our own place in it.