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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