Kitchen Lawn
The
Kitchen Lawn is inside a three foot brick wall, good to use as a prop
for roses and winter-flowering honeysuckle and to shelter daphnes; one
sprig of daphne can scent a whole room, even when picked on a cold day
in March. A clematis trails over an ancient stone bath, and in late summer,
crimson dahlias fill the gaps when the rock roses and cistus are over.
Here we can begin the second circuit of the garden into another of the
separate rooms of plants. A tapestry hedge of mixed green and purple beech
guards the western edge of the Kitchen Lawn. An opening carefully cut
in the centre leads you through into the Walled Garden.
