Interesting to note that the original kitchen garden at Chatsworth was 11.5 acres. This would have employed about 40 fulltime gardeners and would have had to feed hundreds of visitors & staff, plus cater for endless banquets & balls.
The average Victorian kitchen garden of the big estates was about 4 acres and would have a staff of about 15 gardeners, under-gardeners & journeymen. They again, had to provide all fruit, veg & flowers for the big house.
Bill has posted a picture of his hostas on Hello Forkers thread today at 12.28pm growing them in Canada, thought you might be interested and could maybe ID some for him, he hasn't asked, just sticking my nose in
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Interesting to note that the original kitchen garden at Chatsworth was 11.5 acres. This would have employed about 40 fulltime gardeners and would have had to feed hundreds of visitors & staff, plus cater for endless banquets & balls.
The average Victorian kitchen garden of the big estates was about 4 acres and would have a staff of about 15 gardeners, under-gardeners & journeymen. They again, had to provide all fruit, veg & flowers for the big house.
..I'd sell those 11 acres for housing development.....then move..
....to the south of France...
Hostafan,
Bill has posted a picture of his hostas on Hello Forkers thread today at 12.28pm growing them in Canada, thought you might be interested and could maybe ID some for him, he hasn't asked, just sticking my nose in
I've asked him which the big blue one is
I have Blue Angel, which looks similar, and Hadspen's Blue, which is much smaller.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
erm, I'll try to find it guys. Wish me luck.
Dove, you're good a the whole "link" thingy, please can you help me find Bill's post? or anyone else for that matter.
Wait there a minute Hostafan .............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.