It seems ironic that Rosanna Bulmer and husband David, of the famous cider making family, were once told that land around their beautiful old farmhouse on the northern slopes of the Wye valley in Herefordshire was at too high an altitude for them to grow cider apple trees. Since moving to Brilley Court Farm in the late 1970s they have planted hundreds of other trees, though, including orchards of dessert apples, an avenue of sweet chestnuts, fields of oaks and many, many others, as well as making a delgihtful, ornamental garden that bursts into life in spring with hundreds of colourful tulips, narcissi, fritillaries and other delicate flowers.
