Forde Abbey, Somerset

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The Centenary Fountain in the Mermaid Pond, installed in 2005, marked 100 years of the Roper family at the abbey. Reaching 16...
Neat lines of lettuces in the walled kitchen garden, including dark red lettuce 'Marshall'. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Lines of wallflowers being brought on in the kitchen garden. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Osteospermums in the walled kitchen garden. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
A border of bright annuals and herbaceous perennials in front of the historic house includes salvias, heliotropes, dahlias an...
Helenium 'Bruno' in the herbaceous border. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Ionic Tempietto, a small circular temple, at the head of the Long Pond, contains a small circular pond. Forde Abbey, nr Chard...
Ionic Tempietto, a small circular temple, at the head of the Long Pond, contains a small circular pond. Forde Abbey, nr Chard...
Woven willow bird beside the Canal Pond. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Bog garden with hostas, lobelias and astilbes. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Sign to the bog garden. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
The Long Pond with house beyond, edged by the herbaceous border planted with heleniums, kniphofias, dahlias, asters and eupat...
The Long Pond with house beyond, edged by the herbaceous border planted with heleniums, kniphofias, dahlias, asters and eupat...
House viewed from the rock garden, across the south lawn with its clipped yews. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Orderly rows of vegetables and ornamentals in the walled kitchen garden with backdrop of historic Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dors...
Simple graphic map of the garden painted on a metal roundel, mounted on the gate into the kitchen garden. Forde Abbey, nr Cha...
Bright annuals such as argyranthemums and cleomes, the spider flower, line the central path of the walled kitchen garden, wit...
Colourful climber Ipomoea lobata climbs a metal obelisk in the walled kitchen garden surrounded by bright annuals and vegetab...
Orderly lines of kale, celeriac and leeks in the walled kitchen garden with ornamentals beyond including dahlias and Ipomoea ...
Ordered rows of cabbages in box edged beds in the kitchen garden. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Obellisk covered with colourful climber Ipomoea lobata in the kitchen garden surrounded by dahlias and argyranthemums. Forde ...
A border of bright annuals and herbaceous perennials in front of the historic house includes salvias, heliotropes, dahlias an...
Clipped yews frame the lawn walk leading from the house to the Mount, alongside the Long Pond and its herbaceous border full ...
Clipped yews frame the lawn walk leading from the house to the Mount, alongside the Long Pond and its herbaceous border full ...
View from the Mount down to the Long Pond with herbaceous border along one side, punctuated by clipped yew and house beyond. ...
View from the Mount down to the Long Pond with herbaceous border along one side, punctuated by clipped yew and house beyond. ...
A collection of asters on the Mount illuminated by early sun. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
A collection of asters on the Mount illuminated by early sun. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Hostas, rodgersias and gunnera in the bog garden, with the Great Pond beyond. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Vivid red Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' beside a stream running through the bog garden, surrounded by hostas, astilbes,...
Vivid red Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' beside a stream running through the bog garden, surrounded by hostas, astilbes,...
Statues bathed in rays of the rising sun, on the edge of the south lawn with ha ha and fields behind. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, ...
The Long Pond with house beyond, edged by the herbaceous border planted with heleniums, kniphofias, dahlias, asters and eupat...
The Long Pond with house beyond, edged by the herbaceous border planted with heleniums, kniphofias, dahlias, asters and eupat...
Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
The Long Pond with house beyond, edged by the herbaceous border planted with heleniums, kniphofias, dahlias, asters and eupat...
The Long Pond with house beyond, edged by the herbaceous border planted with heleniums, kniphofias, dahlias, asters and eupat...
Gravel path through kitchen garden between box edged beds full of argyranthemums and dahlias, with restored glasshouses beyon...
Simple graphic map of the garden painted on a metal roundel, mounted on the gate into the kitchen garden. Forde Abbey, nr Cha...
Kitchen garden with colourful rows of cabbages and dahlias with backdrop of historic Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Kitchen garden with colourful rows of cabbages and dahlias with backdrop of historic Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Kitchen garden with colourful rows of lettuces and leeks. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Kitchen garden full of rows of broccoli, cabbages and french beans with backdrop of historic Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Path running through the kitchen garden is framed with dahlias and argyranthemums. Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Dorset, UK
Obellisk covered with colourful climber Ipomoea lobata in the kitchen garden surrounded by dahlias and argyranthemums. Forde ...