• Produce

    We are passionate about sustainability and grow using fully natural gardening methods, without the use of herbicides, artificial pesticides or fertilisers. We choose every variety based on its flavour rather than yield and provide the kitchen with the very best produce.

  • Flowers

    The house is always full of amazing and sustainable flowers straight from the garden. Our onsite florist can create bespoke floral arrangements for your stay. We also sell directly to florists, brides and our local flower loving community - please find out more HERE.

  • Bees

    We have our own beehives, helping pollination in the walled garden for produce & flowers, the orchard and the overall grounds. Our bees are always busy producing amazing honey for use in the house.

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History

The 1.8 acre Keythorpe Walled Garden once provided fruit, vegetables and flowers for the family and staff living in Keythorpe Hall.  The 4 meter high surrounding walls protected its high value plants from the elements, rabbits and other unwanted wildlife: allowing for an extended season and earlier crops.  From the middle of the 1800s Keythorpe was owned by the 11th Lord Berners who was president of the Royal Agricultural Society and used the garden to grow grapes, melons, and possibly pineapples, as well as trials of new varieties of wheat from the New World.

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Restoration

The estate was broken up after WW1 and then again after WW2.  We managed to purchase the then derelict Walled Garden, reuniting it once again with the Hall. Nature had returned its former order to a jungle of 12’ nettles, 20’ box trees and self-set sycamore trees. We began working on restoring and revealing some of the lost treasures, with the goal of using it again as a working kitchen garden. Although the restoration is still ongoing (and will be for some time!) we have been growing heritage varieties of vegetables and flowers, supplying Michelin starred restaurants in London and locally, florists and our amazing local community. In 2017 we planted an orchard of heritage varieties of apples, pears and plums, and have also been planting fruit trees along the walls.