During our visit to Packwood House last week, we visited their kitchen garden. Even though we've been to the house loads of time, this was our first visit to the kitchen garden. The blurb on the leaflet informed us that it's an 18th century garden with a contemporary twist.
It's certainly unusual and absolutely gorgeous.
The first thing we came across were the iris, in full bloom
looking closer
It's a beautifully maintained garden, with lots of vegetables
but with lots of flowers too.
The teddy bears' picnic area for children
next to the 'pottering shed'
looking in
rows of cabbages
The dipping pond, used to water crops during the summer months.
In the winter the dipping pond is covered with this wooden lid in order to protect the brickwork in freezing conditions: it takes 8 people to roll it into position.
Foxgloves
sweet peas
everything is neat and well looked after.
Lots of pots
including champagne flower pots
A very unusual, and pleasant kitchen garden.
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