These images were shot some years ago when the Cider House garden in the Tavy Valley, Devon was still in private ownership. It has since been bought back by the National Trust and absorbed back into the grounds of Buckland Abbey and the vast kitchen garden now supplies the restaurant. The previous owners were talented gardeners and had made a gorgeous, colourful garden with the backdrop of the Great Barn as a spectacular borrowed view. In summer the garden was full flowers, unusual clematis, lovely colour combinations and a mass of produce to pick in the vegetable garden, plus the bonus of lettuces going to seed, turning into leafy, fantastical towers.
