Knightshaye Court Gardens

[puddleshark]

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[quarryquest]

We visited there a few years back hunting for Sherlock locations that weren't. They must be doing more with the walled garden now as it seems much more developed aesthetically. Have the trust had the property long?

[puddleshark]

It's been owned by the NT since the 1970s, but they do seem to be in the process of some ambitious restoration - the pond in the front of the house was under a marquee to protect it from the rain while the stonework was being repaired. Maybe the kitchen garden is part of that programme. The herbaceous borders were looking fabulous...

[seekerval]

All right. You've convinced me . . . After the lottery win, we put in a stone-walled kitchen garden with TURRETS GALORE! And lots of blooms scattered among the edibles. Even edible blooms! And a fish pond with fountain! And the orangery, of course--complete with mysterious man in trench coat and fedora sipping tea and reading a foreign newspaper.

I think we'll need to buy a much bigger estate. . .

[puddleshark]

I was initially quite disappointed by Knighthayes not having an orangery - I feel that all stately homes should have an orangery (complete with mysterious man sipping tea and reading a foreign newspaper...)

But now I've had a chance to think about it, the architect who built Knightshayes would almost certainly have put turrets on the orangery, and probably gargoyles, since he was that way inclined, and a Gothic orangery would just not be right.

[seekerval]

Hah! A Gothic orangery would probably be a one-of-a-kind...but not necessarily a my-kind.

Worth visiting in someone ELSE's garden, though...

[tilia_tomentosa]

"Something growing on canes" looks to me like a cross between something of the Cucurbitaceae family and a passion flower. LOL

Stunning dahlias indeed. :)

[puddleshark]

I wondering whether the Something might be an ornamental gourd of some sort - I'd need to go back later in the year and see how the fruit turned out!