Hotel Maes-y-Neuadd
Two slate- walled kitchen gardens that provide fresh fruit and vegetables for the hotel.
Garden Finder
Houghton Hall
Old five-acre walled kitchen garden, translated into 21st century use with 20 different ‘garden rooms’ featuring temples, pools, parterres and sculpture as well as orchards, vegetables, wall-fruit, glasshouses and a gigantic fruit cage.
Houghton Lodge
Privately owned, but open to the public on certain days, so please check the website. An organic kitchen garden, with chalk cob walls with trained fruit trees, apple arbour, herb garden, etc. There are traditional glasshouses by Messenger and a modern hydroponicum housing a collection of orchids.
Inverewe Garden and Estate, (NTS)
Terraced garden and kitchen garden on the very edge of a sea loch.
Kellie Castle and Garden, (NTS)
Organic kitchen garden. Typical Scottish mixture of fruit, flowers and vegetables.
Kelmarsh Hall
Two acre triangular shaped kitchen garden, with unusually sited vinery (excellently restored) and potting shed in the centre. Traditional vegetables and flowers, including many heritage varieties, are grown. Active garden with ongoing structural renovations and cultivation, where frequent cookery demonstrations, educational events and vegetable sales take place.
Knightshayes Court (NT)
Recently restored 4 acre garden, possibly designed by William Burges, with stone walls and turrets at the corners. Cultivated along organic principles, supplying the restaurant and local retail outlets, with a strong educational ethos. Heritage seed collection, dipping pool, glasshouses and back sheds.
Lamport Hall and Gardens
Now a total of approximately 7 acres within which there is a 2 acre walled garden which has been largely planted as a cutting garden with tall, unusual herbaceous plants, many sourced from Piet Oudolf’s nursery in Holland. There are also unusual features in the main garden such as a rockery rising like a ruin 24′ tall and a box bower. See website for opening times.
Langham Hall
Private house, but visits can be arranged through ‘Invitation to View’. Tel: . Georgian garden with two acres of productive kitchen garden and 1 1⁄2 acres of ornamental, including the National Collection of Campanulas. Also open one day in June
Llanerchaeron (NT)
A rare example of a surviving Welsh gentry estate, with an extensive range of 19th century farm and horticultural buildings. The two walled gardens are cultivated organically and show the evolution of garden technology from the early 19th century to the present day. Restored glasshouses include an interesting post-war concrete glasshouse.