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PUBLIC PLACES


Apprentice Jack Hubbard


Socially distanced Matthew Bullen (left) and Jeff Madin at The Hub


work!” We then went down to Glenn Facer’s domain and found him outside his greenhouse. Glenn, Kitchen Gardener Veg and Fruit, must be one of the longest serving employees here as he chalks up thirty-one years in November 2020. Twelve years of this time has seen him in the Kitchen Garden. He went to a garden centre after leaving school, applied for a job at Chatsworth and was taken on to look after borders and hedges in the garden. Doing what he does now he says: “This is the job I wanted and I love it!”


Glenn Facer Britta Horsthemke


On we moved to look at the work started in 2015 but coming to fruition soon; The Trout Stream and Jack Pond. Redevelopment of the Trout Stream is intimately connected to Dan Pearson’s creation of Chatsworth’s and Laurent Perrier’s ‘Best in Show’ garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015, which provided the conceptual inspiration for new planting and seating along the Trout Stream, which ends at the Jack Pond. A simple stream running, more or less straight, alongside a path has been reworked to have a more interesting and meandering course. We saw the near culmination of Dan Pearson’s work coming together which includes a Pavilion, reflective pool and new planting scheme around an historic water feature called The Jack. I particularly admired the beautifully crafted small sluice


gate, so in keeping! We drove next up the path along the Trout


Stream and came to Arcadia’s Wet Glade which includes 35,000 new plants. We also stopped to admire the new sculpture by local artist Laura Ellen Bacon, inspired by the vast network of dry-stone walls across Derbyshire. We carried on and passed four of the team planting in Glade Two; it was hard spotting them all! A lovely view next presented itself; the Grotto pond with the greenery reflected in the clear water. Moving on now away from Arcadia, we came to the entrance to the Pinetum, created during 1830-31, This area, Joseph Paxton’s first major project as Head Gardener, was transformed by assiduous planting of the 6th Duke’s collection of conifers from the Americas, Africa and Asia. It is stated that they were both men of vision as neither of them would see their beloved collection grow to maturity! Additions were made from 1950 by the 11th Duke and Duchess and now the 12th Duke and Duchess are keen for further development of this collection. Looking out from the edge of the Pinetum across the valley to Capability Brown’s parkland, we saw in the foreground an SSSI site, part of the early park, rich in ecology and containing an important collection of veteran oaks. We ventured on heading towards the Hub by another route and


John Marsh 108 PC October/November 2020


The Laura Ellen Bacon sculpture


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