The main attraction of Chatsworth House for me anyway is the parkland. It was set out by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and if you’re interested in him there are some super images of his work here.

Within the parkland there are small areas of garden which could be any suburban plot really and would be easy to copy if you were that way inclined. I think this photo is of part of the kitchen garden although it could be the cottage garden.

I originally thought this one was the cottage garden but I’ve just spotted some red lettuce plants so it’s probably the kitchen garden, the planting in the two gardens is sort of sililat, more like the French potager idea really.

This photo has crocosmia and agapanthus in it amongst other things, all very pretty and easily achievable for anyone with a wee bit of a garden.

If you look closely at this photo you can see cherries on the tree. I’m really jealous because cherries don’t grow where I live in Scotland. We get plenty of lovely blossom but its just never warm enough for long enough for them to develop.

So that’s that for the wee gardens. I’ve put all of the Chatsworth photos onto Flickr now if you want to have a look at them. I’ll do some more posts on Chatsworth but I think I want to blog about Haworth in Yorkshire tomorrow. That’s Bronte country of course and although we went there last year I couldn’t resist another visit on the way home from Derbyshire.

This time we didn’t do the Bronte Parsonage tour but we walked up onto the moors and had a snoop around the shops in the village after we visited the graveyard. I do love old graveyards. Am I strange? Probably!