To the greenhouse born

摘要

The gardens surrounding Georgian Fittleworth House in West Sussex cover 1.2ha and feature a magnificent cedar tree, swathes of rhododendrons and mixed borders. There is also a rose garden and a formal fountain garden. But the piece de resistance is the walled kitchen garden where vegetables, fruit and flowers for cutting are grown. White posts painted with neat black lettering label the straight rows of vegetables. Grape vines are strung on taut wires the length of the garden and three exotic bantamchickens peck at seeds and worms in the soil to complete the idyllic image.