Future Plans

To date, approximately four of the Gardens’ ten acres have been developed.

The current project is the kitchen garden, which covers half an acre of rising, sheltered ground to the north of the main house, and in its heyday employed three full-time gardeners who supplied the house with fruit, flowers and vegetables. Aerial photographs taken by the RAF in the 1940s and 1950s show an intensively cultivated garden, with glasshouses and cold frames.

As of January 2008, the old glasshouses have been demolished (alas), and one side and the top of the beech hedge flailed by machine.  We are tidying up the hedge with loppers, and scraping decades of mud off the clinker paths, and tackling the discouragingly vigourous blanket of weeds and scrub, with a view to planting up one quarter of the garden this spring.