- Spring Lecture - The Development & Decline of Walled Kitchen Gardens
Thursday 18th of March 2010
- Lecture on Sir Joseph Banks by David Robinson
Saturday 10th of April 2010
- Evening visit to Pine House, Gaddesby
Tuesday 4th of May 2010
Coach trip to Broughton Grange Estate, Oxfordshire
This garden has been described in the Good Gardens Guide as ‘simply one of the most significant and scintillating gardens to be created in twenty-first century Britain’.
Surrounding the house are formal gardens and informal planting: a parterre, long borders backed by hedges, an orchard, a wildflower meadow, a woodland garden and a young arboretum.
However, it is Tom-Stuart’s Smith’s six acre terraced walled garden which is the jewel in the crown. A perennial flower garden, punctuated by mature beech topiary and pleached limes occupies the upper terrace. A rill of classical simplicity leads the eye to the next terrace – a spectacular rectangular pool, crossed by stepping stones. The third and lowest terrace is a parterre, the design of which is based on the structure of leaves viewed under a microscope.
The Trust visited on 14th May and all our cameras were clicking furiously. Here are some images which have been posted on the Facebook account of one of our members.
