PUBLIC PLACES
terrace, the main reception rooms and the bedrooms on the south side of the house. In the centre sits a magnifi cent fountain, originally made for an Italian palace. The Parterre was restored in 1994 to designs by Beth Rothschild and six years later won the Europa Nostra award, a pan-Europe initiative to recognise outstanding heritage conservation initiatives.
“June is our most frenetic planting time for the gardens team. Following the second bank holiday in May, the team and
volunteers remove the spring display and spend a month planting the bedding plants for the summer display.”
Included in this display is the carpet bed, which is changed every year and features a design taking a reference from an exhibit on display in the main house. An image is taken of the exhibit and sent to a specialist grower, Kernock Park Plants in Cornwall, who turn the image into pixels, with each pixel represented by a single plant. Once the design is approved, the plants
are then pricked out into 84 trays and grown on to create the overall image. The trays are numbered and stacked onto pallets, which are then delivered and unloaded in the correct sequence to be laid in less than a single day.
Further heightened activity comes in October, when the summer plants are stripped out and the bulbs for the spring display are hand planted in the Parterre. In other parts of the garden more bulb planting takes place. For the fi rst time in 90 years the Tulip Patch was full of meadow tulips, which were machine sown using a specialist planter which slits the grass, creates a furrow beneath the surface into which the bulbs fall, while at the same time applying a fertiliser mix. The Aviary formal bedding featured 32,500 tulip bulbs.
Peter Turski is the Horticultural Team Leader and joined the Waddesdon team in April 2019, having spent 20 years in various roles across the industry. A graduate from the Kew Diploma course, he was the oldest student in his year group when he received his diploma back in 2016. Commenting on the aff ect that the coronavirus pandemic has had on the gardens at Waddesdon, he said, “Anyone
The gardens have been planted with green manures. This is a new way of gardening for us, and long-term, it will be very benef icial for the garden
Horticultural Team Leader Peter Turski 100 PC April/May 2021
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