…and beyond.
The potager is filled with vegetables, herbs and flowers that can be cut for the house. This part of the garden is laid out symmetrically into blocks:
Runner beans and sweet peas are planted along the edges of the wide paths which provide a cool root run. Herbs are planted in the corners along with standard roses, bay trees, box pyramids and ballerina apple trees which give the garden form during winter and spring. We can try out new vegetables and planting plans with different combinations and edgings as long as we follow the overall four year rotation plan. When early crops and vegetables are finished the beds are planted up with wallflower plants for growing on, salad crops and oriental vegetables so there is hardly ever an empty bed and always plenty to eat! *
*From the making of a new Elizabethan garden by Susan Cunliffe-Lister
Is it a sculpture or a scarecrow?
He could be either or both!
Isn’t that all so pretty and so indicative of an english country garden. I laughed at the mesh man, on an art forum yestreday, someone suggested making up something very similar ( although a little etheral) and putting it at the edge of a wood…very ghostlike!
A very English garden for sure. Your talk of putting a mesh man on the edge of a wood reminds me of the wooden sculptures they place in some forests.
That’s a garden to die for Cherie!
It was one of the best ones I have visited
We have something like the “gardener” outside the front of the “Council offices”, I think it is the mayor.
The Mayor in Mesh outside the council offices sounds intriguing!
What a beautiful garden. I so admire the English cottage gardens. Great pics.
Thanks MidWest