Summary
STEPPING into the walled kitchen garden at Tyntesfield feels like walking into the pages of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Secret Garden.
It's a perfect vision - the high Victorian brick walls dotted with fruit trees trained along espalier cordons; the neat rows of vegetables lined up like soldiers on parade; and the sun shining against the glass houses and neatly laid-out cold-frames. But, on closer inspection, the 1830s kitchen garden has seen better days.See the full content of this document
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Victorian Glory
In many places the brick and stonework is crumbling to dust, and the heavy wooden gates that once protected the crops from rampaging deer now hang limply on their hinges - barren of any panels....
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