Last week we visited Clumber Park Walled Kitchen Garden, which happens to be not far from us here in Sheffield, being on the edge of Nottinghamshire & South Yorkshire near Worksop. I’ll let the pictures to the talking. Well, mainly, a little chatter from me too 🙂
The most wonderful grapevine ever, growing in the greenhouse. Plus old gardening related tools.
The brilliant joy of Californian poppies en masse
Sweet peas and broad beans
Double red poppy. Pretty, but harder for the bees?
My Morello Cherry has quite a bit of catching up to meet the age of this beauty. #Envy
That’s some fine pruning & shaping
Yellow-themed planting in the long border
Exotic planting next to the greenhouse. And what is that phallic plant?!
It really does make a statement. Not sure what kind of a statement though.
Phallic plant, close up of flowers.
Mmmmm, more food growing. And arse end of the scarecrow!
Loved the mixing of reds, purples, pinks and yellows in this border.
I loved the trees as a backdrop to the planting in this section of the garden.
I thought they looked really majestic.
I gave my heart to this Rudbeckia, ‘green wizard’ I believe.
Above & below: rubarb, rubarb rubarb (blah blah blah). Plus cute cow.
Blue-themed planting in the long border
Allium Christophii seed heads
Orange & red-themed part of the long border
Silky and velvet-like, a Hemrocallis
Overview of back area of the Walled Kitchen Garden
Overview of part of the greenhouse end of the Walled Kitchen garden
A fine walled kitchen garden, tis Clumber Park.
There's an awful lot of work gone into that garden, but doesn't it show!
The phallic looking plant is an Echium, there are a lot of them down here in the South West. I want to try it when I can find the space. Love that Rudbeckia too.
The hard work behind it doesn't show at all. So phallic-Echium it is – thanks for informing me. I had no idea they were so large, but then I've never seen one until now.
Yes, an Echium it is, lots here in Devon and Cornwall, but you need to be frost free to grow them. I think there is still plenty of pollen for the bees in the red poppy, still plenty of stamens for them to wallow around in! What a super garden you went to, the long borders were so neat and tidy, obviously lots of work to keep it so pristine.
I do love a walled garden, what a grand place to visit. You could make an awful lot of crumble with all those rhubarb plants! And I now know what to aim for with my cherry…
Pauline: that's interesting about Echium's needing to be frost free. They are growing these on the Notts/S.Yorks border, and I'm sure that gets plenty of frost. Maybe growing them next to the greenhouse gives protection? Re the poppy, that's just what bees like to do in them, wallow. I love watching them do that, like they are on a high or something!
Janet: walled gardens are hard to resist. I think Clumber Park Walled Garden holds a national collection of rhubarb. I wonder if they sell rhubarb crumble in the cafe? mmmm (cafe was closed for refurb when we visited).
The grapevine and the Californian poppies are fabulous. The Echium is quite common down here in gardens by the sea. It isn't hardy so I imagine that the one you saw would have to be brought in for the winter.