The Nursery Garden.
From the Middle Garden a path leads down to what was the old
kitchen garden for the house. When we began, this was the only
area in the entire garden that had reasonable soil. No doubt many
barrows of manure were trundled down from the stables over the
centuries.
The garden, on a gentle south-facing slope is overlooked by two
bothies. There is a small terrace on the site of a stove house
which was used in the nineteenth century to grow nectarines. The
large brick water tank is all that remains of quite an elaborate
heating and irrigation system.
Sadly, the glasshouse itself was vandalised and removed as late
as the 1970's. We have terraced this area, walled it with drystane
dyking, and find that the new raised bed is perfect for celmisias.
The Nursery Garden 2 >
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