At the weekend I read the latest regional edition of the National Trust magazine ‘Near You’. One of the articles advised that this year sees the fifth anniversary of the walled garden project. I have enjoyed seeing that garden at different stages as it progressed. This is what the article has to say about the project:
Since 2006 a dedicated team of staff and volunteers have been restoring the walled garden, frame yard and orchard at Attingham Park into an excellent example of a late 18th century kitchen garden estate.
This year sees the fifth anniversary of this project with three-quarters of the garden in full production. there’s nearly 160 apple trees and clusters of damson and walnut trees thriving in the orchard, and work beginning on reinstating the herbaceous garden. The sheer size of the walled kitchen garden at Attingham Park serves as a reminder of the scale of operations when the estate was in its prime, prior to ceasing cultivation in the 1960s. Walled Gardner, Kate Nicoll, said:
“I’m really pleased with how far we have come in five years – the fruit trees have been returned to the walls and the ironwork has been reinstated. “We now supply the tea-room and shop with fruit, vegetables and flowers throughout the year, and in 2012 we achieved organic status. It’s wonderful to see the garden coming back to life.”
We’ve cancelled our membership of the NT. We just don’t have time to visit places! With trips to children at opposite sides of the country we’re kept busy. Also there are very few places near us in South Wales. But, one day, when the grandchildren are grown and we’re less on the permanent runabout, we’ll try again because I do love visiting the houses.
I should imagine you have just as much fun visiting the grand children
And just where, pray tell, can Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor be found, Ms. Beatrix Potter?
Pictures pretty enough for a storybook.
(And now, for some reason, I think I would like a salad for dinner)
Thank you
Hopefully Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor are outside the walled garden
I do love walled gardens.
Me too
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I enjoyed your tour of this lovely garden with food in it Cherie… that’s what we called a garden when we grew up… flowers were just planted around the outside of house….peter:)
You had a pretty big house in your youth
Very nice place. Bon Appétit!
Bon Appétit! Dear Claude.
Time yes. I’d like time to visit these places and the zoo.
Chester Zoo has been on my visit list for a couple of years and I haven’t quite made it there…
NIce idea with the pots next to the seat. All in all including the background, the shot works well.
They keep moving the seats and the posts around, so I never know what I am going to find on my next visit.