Come with us on a tour of famed garden historian and journalist Catherine Horwood's kitchen garden, tucked away on the grounds of her 16th-century Suffolk town house.
Sweet peas clamber up towering rusted obelisks while a central wire arch adds symmetry to the cutting garden.
Catherine invested in a serious greenhouse from Alitex with cold frames, a misting zone for nurturing cuttings and seedlings, as well as plenty of growing space.
Dahlias are a major passion of Catherine's, and much space is given over to growing them.
Annuals such as Centaurea cyanus ‘Black Ball’ with Nigella damascene, pictured, are also grown in abundance as well as sweet peas, cosmos, snap dragons, and zinnias.
To save space, pears are grown as cordons.
As it borders open farmland at the rear, this is a windy spot but it’s protected on one side by a tall beech hedge
A Kadai fire bowl and a swing seat beneath an old apple tree provide a place to sit and cook on summer evenings.
There are more than 40 cultivars of clematis here, including this Vitacella pictured, and they grow through hedges, up walls, and up through roses and trees.
Rather than growing everything, Catherine’s philosophy is to grow vegetables that are either expensive to buy, hard to find, or just much better fresh from the garden.