Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Gardens in the land of rain, Shakespeare, and Happy Potter, 4 by donnerville

donnerville wrote:
Some big houses have walled gardens which are literally gardens inside brick walls. They used to be vegetable gardens. I guess that walls were used to keep sheep and probably hungry villagers out.. Now they have mostly been converted to flower gardens. Herbaceous borders are built along the walls, not very good for photo composition but sure great for gardeners to look at plants. There are just so many of them!!!

Speaking of looking at plants, it would be so much fun if we could tour English gardens together one of these days. Anybody likes the idea?

This group of photos was taken in the walled garden at Coughton Court. One side of the yard had a “hot garden” and the other side “cool garden”. Here are photos of the “hot garden”.



This message was edited Sep 4, 2015 2:30 PM