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The Victorian Walled Garden
By Michael Gilmore
The period of greatest growth
and change in gardening ran parallel with the growth of the British Empire which fuelled it, especially between 1800
and 1914.
At one time virtually every
cottage and country house in
Britain contained a modest
vegetable garden. In time,
these gardens evolved in direct
proportion to their owner’s
personal wealth, for the more
wealthy this extended to include
feeding an extended household
and to regularly entertaining
house guests.
There
were two types of walled garden, the most common was the
walled vegetable garden; but the walled flower garden, such
as the one at Winsford Walled Garden, was the second and
the more unusual garden type.
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