Abbotsford
Home of Sir Walter Scott, who built both house and gardens. Kitchen garden contains his Gothic-style conservatory. Gardens only open in the summer.
Home of Sir Walter Scott, who built both house and gardens. Kitchen garden contains his Gothic-style conservatory. Gardens only open in the summer.
A major restoration project has restored this early garden, which has two walled gardens: the upper an ornamental garden designed by Penelope Hobhouse, and the lower is a traditionally planted productive garden. There is also a crab apple tunnel and a small lean-to glasshouse.
Large 8 acre walled garden, with circular corner pavilions, currently being restored by volunteers.
The 18th century walled garden has been undergoing a major restoration project, cultivation is underway, restored glasshouses are in use, there is a good range of backsheds, including mushroom house, root store, fruit store and bothy. The two acre orchard includes many local varieties and is also being renovated.
The two walled gardens cover 8 acres, with an 1820 vinery range and back sheds comprising bothy, potting sheds, toolsheds, and mushroom house. Period varieties of fruit and vegetables of around 1900 are grown on organic principles in conjunction with Garden Organic.
1 acre walled garden. Beautiful stonework with limestone masonry. Currently used for animal grazing.
Restored Victorian kitchen garden, with glasshouses, excellent food shop and café: ‘The Epicurean’. They also run a box scheme and produce apple juice from the orchard.
Working kitchen garden, created in the 1920s, with fruit trained on stone walls.
Perhaps the only kitchen garden that can be viewed from a monorail, newly restored and laid out with a mixture of culinary and herbaceous plants. Old vinery by Rendle & Co.