Fiona Drummond
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Cadland’s gardens were exquisitely sited by Capability Brown to take advantage of the breathtaking views across the Solent towards the Isle of Wight, Cadland House's unusual gardens are his smallest surviving pleasure ground. It is a miniature landscape garden with a circular belt walk, broad vistas, intimate peeps out to sea, the delights of scent and foliage and the play of light and shade on the grass. Plants available prior to 1760, roses, myrtles and cistus, scent the air. 18th century gardens were designed to create a different sensation at each turn of the path and to enliven the spirit with the Beauty of Nature.
Home fruits such as apricots, white peaches and grapes are carefully tended to throughout the seasons in the restored glasshouses...
Encapsulating the first Victorian walled garden is the longest surviving glass fruit house in Hampshire, overlooking a now substantial vegetable garden that feeds the family all year round, and that has been organically grown over ten years. Cadland’s Kitchen Garden is the hub and health of a much loved family home. Together with an unusual aviary of ornamental pheasants as an eye catcher at the end of the orchard, grass fed chickens and a menagerie of animals, plus a second walled garden acting as a plantsman's parterre housing rare and interesting trees and shrubs, it is a perfect idyll and purposeful place.
Unfortunately the Kitchen Garden is currently closed for visits due to glasshouse renovations,
Outside the walled gardens lawns with Cedars of Lebanon and a collection of oaks can be seen from the woodland paths.
