We have been eagerly awaiting the new wooden gates into the walled garden. Monarch Gates did a superb job on the drive gates so they have been commissioned to create the gates into the walled-garden. They were hung on Thursday 17 December and look very smart.
While we are on the subject of wooden structures, my four, six foot statuesque wooden obelisks were delivered on Friday 18 December, painted in Farrow and Ball Little Dix Blue from Wooden Obelisks in Framlingham. These will be located in the long borders in the walled garden and the plan is to grow a white climbing rose – it has to be Iceberg from Peter Beales, a chalcedony blue clematis from Thorncroft Nursery, up the road at Dereham and some sweet peas for cutting and putting in little vases in the bedrooms. There is nothing to surpass their fragrance and jewel-like colours.
And the icing on the cake is our new gardener who starts in January – Will studied horticulture at Nottingham Uni. He works at lots of very special gardens locally, some of which are open to the public through the NGS so we are on our marks …. A photo diary of the garden will be posted from early March onwards.