Stephen Lacey has been busy visiting and eating at some 40 country houses around Britain, to update the National Trust's garden guide book. Writing with my fingers stained with the juice of black raspberries, I must admit that something momentous has been taking place in our historic gardens and I have been very slow to realise the scale of it. After decades of abandonment, our great walled kitchen gardens are enjoying a remarkable renaissance. This summer has brought home to me just how great the reversal of fortune has been, as I have been clocking up visits to about 40 country-house gardens around Britain on my mission to update the main gardens guidebook for the National Trust. |
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