Step into the glorious gardens of Buscot Park in Oxfordshire, and you’ll find strange and unusual vegetables growing among the flowers in the walled gardens. There’s an incredible arrangement of ornamental gourds and squashes, including star, diamond and tear-shaped gourds, as well as leeks, chard and herbs.
There are apples, peaches, pears and plum espaliers, as well as free-standing fruit bushes. In a sheltered sunny spot outside the walled gardens is a glorious collection of citrus fruit. Visitors can walk among the lemons, limes, oranges and satsumas!
Richard Smith is a senior gardener at Buscot Park. He and his colleague Sophie Hewitt Smith are responsible for the central parts of the garden, including the fruits and vegetables, ornamental walled gardens, Four Seasons Garden and the Peter Coats Garden (Parents’ Walk).…
