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Dogs were an important part of the family, as can be seen from the pet cemetery positioned within the garden, and were both companions and used in game shooting
” Rear of the Rose Garden where dog kennels were originally
experience.” Renovations are not really affected by events. Vintage car rallies are held, as too are brass band concerts for example, but there is plenty of huge lawned space for these and the ground suffers little. Changing weather patterns seems to have raised irrigation as a growing issue and a badly timed frost can cause problems. Sprinklers have been installed in the flower garden and fern dell to help watering, but the huge urns still need hand watering which is labour intensive. Soaker hoses are used in the herbaceous borders. Ferns in the dell are carefully wrapped in winter and need even more careful unwrapping when spring comes! Delicate species, such as bananas are brought into the greenhouse during winter and dahlias are lifted and brought in too.
Projects
“What are you working on at the moment?” I asked. “The Rose Garden has been quite a project it seems”. Timing was good, as the current rose garden project had just been completed. The object was to restore it to its original layout and with two hundred period- correct roses! The old ironwork of the arch needed work too and there was also a major issue with the box hedging to remedy. Box Blight was the problem and so all was removed along with the soil. The reason, Edward told me, was that the disease comes from the soil and rain splashes transfer this to the box hedging. So, all new disease- resistant box hedging plants were planted in new soil but, this time, with a top mulch to prevent splashing should the disease return. I’d heard about dog kennels in this area, so Edward explained: “The old dog kennels
we’re situated behind the Rose Garden, near to where the herbaceous bed is now positioned and not far from the stables. Dogs were an important part of the family, as can be seen from the pet cemetery positioned within the garden, and were both companions and used in game shooting. The kennels fell into disrepair around the 1960s and were later demolished. When English Heritage (EH) took on the site in 1990, the design for the new herbaceous bed, and the yew hedge behind, took influence from the old building which once stood there. This was done by partitioning the bed into sections, using the yew hedge to replicate the kennels. The yew hedge has now matured and thickened up and provides a neatly cut backdrop to the billowing herbaceous bed in front.” This project certainly has been carried out very
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