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fabulous ... different, quirky, educational
BBC TV's Gardeners' World, September 2006
Kitchen Garden confidential
Sunday Times, 15 July 2007
Among the tulips
Sunday Times, 29 July 2007
Flowering imaginations
The Chiswick, 7.09.07
Garden chance
BCI Times, 14.07.07
See what’s at the bottom of the garden
BCI Times, 13.07.07
Giant rodents at kitchen garden
Hounslow Chronicle, 19.07.07
Really good watering
The Chiswick, 13.07.07
Ladybirds spotted enjoying great outdoors
BCI Times, 15.06.07
Volunteers plant orchard in garden used by The Beatles
Horticulture Week, 14.06.07
Exclusive gardens open to public
Horticulture Week, 07.06.07
Evening Standard, 6.06.07
Free wine-tasting at the Chiswick House Garden
BCI Times, 01.06.07
Most urbanites can only dream of the properly organised kitchen garden of a great house so we're lucky to have a terrific example locally at Chiswick House. One of the few remaining working walled gardens in London it has been rediscovered and brought back to life by local volunteers and is now mainly run as an educational resource for school children. The small team and their even smaller helpers grow all the varied produce that would originally have been supplied to the residents of the house; herbs for cooking and medicine, salads and vegetables, fruit and a variety of plants for cutting. Though it's not possible to buy fresh herbs from the garden yet, fantastic herb plants are on sale at their regular open days.
The Green, June 2007
From Plot to Plate: Take inspiration from these historic kitchen gardens, so that you too can grow fresh produce throughout the year
Period Ideas magazine, June 2007
Kitchen Garden in Bloom
The Chiswick, 4 May 2007
Successful first day for garden
BCI Times, 4 May 2007
Real taste of London: The Chiswick Secret Garden Chiswick House's fabulous 17th century secret garden opens for the first time this year on Sunday ... it certainly trumps the garden centre.
The London Paper, 25 April 2007
I'll name that vole in one
The Chiswick, 30 March 2007
We're growing places: Budding horticulturalists from Cavendish School will get a taste of celebrity when they appear on Gardeners' World next Friday
Informer, 9.02.07
Kitchen Garden kicks off new series for Beeb
BCI Times, 09.03.07
Tobacco on tap no more a pipe dream
BCI Times, 26.01.07
Just like the deep south
Hounslow Chronicle, 25.01.07
Chiswick House kicks up a right royal stink
BCI Times , 29.12.06
Past skills passed on for the future
Horticulture Week, 9 November 2006
...one of the few working kitchen gardens in London and is laid out to look as attractive as it is productive ...
If you are looking for a special garden to visit this summer then Chiswick House Kitchen Garden is the place to go ... Whatever happens, the kitchen garden is just the beginning and all congratulations should be given to the enterprising and hardworking volunteers and school children who have made it happen.
The Green, July 2006
In the Beatles footsteps. West London schoolchildren have helped to restore the historic kitchen gardens ... Until three years ago, the garden had been completely forgotten but, thanks to a passionate band of supporters, it will be open to the public for the NGS.
English Garden magazine, July 2006
The Kitchen Garden project began in 2005 and has proved a huge success ... it might be worth visiting before the "regeneration" begins.
Westside, July 2006
This garden's popular open days can attract more than 1,000 people ...
The Times, 27 May 2006
Most Londoners dream of finding a quiet corner of the capital to escape to when the rat race becomes too much. Away from the roar of engines, out of earshot of beeping mobile phones and laptops, and far from the cries of an irate boss.
... It is almost impossible to believe the ancient garden lies less than 10 yards from the busy A4, because once you are inside the walls all you can hear is birdsong and the rustle of leaves.
... 'People might think I'm crazy to do all this, but I suppose I still have that dream of creating our very own secret garden.'
After working hard digging up potatoes, lifting carrots, sowing seeds and picking various vegetables, they all sat down to a feast.
Fresh lettuces from Chiswick House's kitchen garden are on sale after a bumper crop has left workers with a surplus of sumptuous leaves. The kitchen garden is now going from strength to strength with the help of local schoolchildren and volunteers.
The Chiswick, 10 June 2005
A salad picnic took place last week... Three children who had never eaten lettuce before ate their first leaves last Thursday. One boy told on of the CHS volunteers, "This is Heaven."
Chiswick, Brentford & Isleworth Times,
ALMOST 3,000 people flocked to Chiswick House last weekend to see the historic kitchen gardens opened to the public for the first time, writes Karen Leibreich .
near-derelict
Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2005
a real treat for garden historians and anyone who appreciates neglected places where the atmosphere of the past is still tangible ... an opportunity to see an inspired regeneration project in its embryonic stage.
Secret garden is slowly coming back to life
Chiswick, Brentford & Isleworth Times, 15 April 2005
