The Charming Nook

Hello and welcome back to my garden blog 🙂

As mentioned in my last post, I was away recently visiting my best friend and I spent some of that time visiting gardens.

The gardens I wanted to share with you today are from Tatton Park. It’s another photo rich post. Enjoy!

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Walled Kitchen Gardens

My day started off wandering through the walled kitchen gardens. Even at this time of year, their bare bone structure still provided interest. I always love looking at trained fruit trees and the first walled garden gives an example of every type of training available:

The second walled garden was a more traditional allotment style garden:

There was still some frost/snow lingering on the ground in places:

The walled kitchen gardens then led to Charlotte’s Garden:

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Charlotte’s Garden

Charlotte’s Garden is much less formal in structure, with generous sweeping pathways and intermingled with formal crown symbolism throughout:

I really loved the architectural and quite playful background created by the topiary hedging that edged this garden. It reminded me of Alice in Wonderland:

Moving on from Charlotte’s Garden, you are greeted with the grandeur of the Italian Garden – and a beautiful view over the countryside.

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Italian Garden

I love the liberal use of formal design features and structures throughout this garden:

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Broad Walk

The walk through the gardens then leads to the Broad Walk, which had some magnificent and mature trees:

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Japanese Garden

The star of the gardens at the time of year for me was the Japanese Garden. The pictures really speak for themselves:

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Tower Garden

As the day wore on, I spent the remainder of my walk through the gardens in the Tower Garden and the Rose Garden. Both of these gardens are much more intimate compared to the other gardens. They would be the perfect spot for tea on a Summer’s day:

The Tower Garden then leads into the Rose Garden, which has been one of my favourite gardens when I have visited during Summer time. It is filled to the brim with a wide variety of roses in the Summer.

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Rose Garden

The stone carving pictured above reads: “The purest and most thoughtful of minds are those which most love Color”.

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After exploring the gardens and having a spot of lunch, I spent some time in the charitable book shop and I purchased a number of gardening books to take home with me. One of those is about formal garden design, which I am hoping to recreate elements of in areas throughout my garden, on a small scale. You’ll have to stay tuned for further posts about that in the future.

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I hope you enjoyed following along and seeing the gardens at Tatton Park. There is free admission to the garden during the week at the moment during the off peak season and it is well worth an initial visit and walk around, no matter the weather. It is a place you can keep going back to throughout the year; there is even more to explore than I have mentioned.

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I’ll be back on Sunday morning as usual with another blog post. Until then, happy gardening 🙂