Gardeners Cottage

Description: This former two-acre Victorian kitchen garden is undergoing a slow transition from its previous owners (H.M. Prisons) after a decade of neglect. With some restoration and a little repurposing, Michelle and Nick are beginning to open up beds and restore lawns, old and new. They are creating smaller areas of formal, herbaceous, woodland and seasonal planting mixed between the orchards, soft fruits, hedges, paths and pagodas. This is complemented by a ten-acre woodland bursting with wild flowers, ferns and foxgloves, and is undergoing a transformation after the Arwen and Corrie storms. The replanting of the more commercial forestry with native species has opened up opportunity to create a fun element in this amenity space for the campsite, with lots of benches and footpaths to explore and unusual things to find.