Winter talk: fruit, veg and flowers

Description

The development of landscape and horticultural practices at Chatsworth have been profoundly influenced by fashion and taste over 470 years of continued family ownership. Production gardening went from dealing with primarily edible, medicinal and utilitarian plants to managing large collections of exotic plants and the specialist environments created to house them. Since Bess of Hardwick and Sir William Cavendish moved to Chatsworth, the estate has been pretty much self-sufficient for food, partly due to the special quality of the local geography and partly due to the passion of the generations of the Cavendish family for horticulture and the landscape around Chatsworth House.

Join the Chatsworth Garden team for a fascinating behind the scenes glimpse into the workings of the estate’s production gardens, including a brief history of key periods of the family’s ownership, how the production gardens have moved around the landscape and the wide variety of plants that are grown to be used ex situ including fruit, veg and flowers.

With a renewed interest in the origins of our food, in organic principles, food miles, heritage varieties, sustainability, in-season cooking and working with the rhythm of nature in our own vegetable gardens, this is a great opportunity to meet the team, discover what they are working on and find out what you can look forward to seeing in the garden in the open season.

This winter talk will take place in The Old Potting Shed in the garden, and includes tea or coffee and a Q&A.

11am to 12pm.