Pythouse Kitchen Garden
West Hatch, Tisbury, SP3 6PA. Mr Piers Milburn, 01747 870444,
info@pythousekitchengarden.co.uk,
www.pythousekitchengarden.co.uk. A350 S of E Knoyle, follow brown signs to
Walled Garden approx 3m. From Tisbury take Newtown road past church, stay
on it 2½m, garden on R. Check map on www.pythousekitchengarden.co.uk.
Thur 9 Sept (10-3.30). Adm £5, chd free. Light refreshments. If hoping to
have lunch in the restaurant, pre-booking required on
www.pythousekitchengarden.co.uk. Visits also by arrangement May to Oct
for groups of up to 30.
3 acres of working kitchen garden, in largely continuous use since C18, with
fruit-lined walls and gnarled apple trees leading down to an orchard via
ravishing, rosa rugosa-edged, beds of flowers, soft fruit, vegetables and
beehives. A restaurant now occupies the old potting shed and conservatory,
with terraces for tea on open days. Abundant herbs, kiwis and apricots, as well as the deliciously scented 1920s HT rose, Mrs Oakley Fisher, growing by the
kitchen door. Restaurant opens 10am for delicious home-made food at coffee,
lunch and teatime, served both inside and out on terrace, open until 4pm on
open days. Grass paths across slope