Tag Archives: kitchen garden

Hats off to Hyde Hall

Posted on 25/07/2020 by The Gardens Trust

A couple of weeks ago, as the lockdown started to lift and gardens began tentatively to re-open, I was taken to Hyde Hall, the Essex garden of the Royal Horticultural Society. I’ve been several times before and have always come … Continue reading →

The Pergola, Hampstead.

Posted on 06/06/2020 by The Gardens Trust

My favourite garden in London is very sadly currently out of bounds to the public because of covid19, although I have just taken advantage of the slight relaxation of the lockdown to walk around the outside. But if I can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged conservation, Italianate garden, kitchen garden, london, pergola, Thomas Mawson | 2 Comments

The Prince and the Tomato

Posted on 14/09/2019 by The Gardens Trust

La Bourdaisière is just one small chateau in the Loire Valley among dozens and dozens of others. It sits on a rise dominating its immediate surroundings, and in the middle of its parc classé [the equivalent of a registered historic park … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Broglie, dahlias, ecology, France, garden festival, kitchen garden, tomatoes | Leave a comment

The perfect monastic garden?

Posted on 31/08/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Happy St Fiacre’s Day! [and if you don’t know who he is click on the link! ] which makes it a very appropriate day for today’s post which is all about this rather dull looking image on the right. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Charlemagne, kitchen garden, Mediaeval, monastery, orchard, St Gall | 1 Comment

Beaudesert: “a desert beautified”

Posted on 27/07/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Beaudesert is/was an enormous estate in Staffordshire’, its name probably coming from the French for the surrounding landscape – “beautiful wilderness”. It has a reasonably well recorded architectural and contents history up to the demolition of the great Elizabethan mansion … Continue reading →