Rolling out the green carpet – The Walled Gardens at Croome Court

Notice the liberal use of electric fencing. You may think it a little extreme unless you are familiar with the carnage that rabbits on mass can cause in the garden, over just one night.

The Herb Garden is a prime target for the little fluffy devils. Indeed it had been a home to so many of them not long before.

This was to become a new formal rose bed, consisting entirely of Old English varieties.