| Carpenters
House and Garden
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| CARPENTERS, dating from the 1700's used to be the workshop of the village carpenter until the l930's. Now it is a comfortable home in a spacious garden. We will welcome you with a cup of tea - either in the garden on a warm summer's day, or in the drawing room with its log fire in winter. The garden is our chief pastime, along with the vineyard, and making our guests feel welcome and comfortable. |
| The garden is just under an acre, sloping gently from the house down to a sunken lane, across which is a further half acre of vineyard, beyond which is an open view to Ham and Chiselborough hills. The garden is enclosed by hamstone walls gradually being covered by the small daisy - Erigeron karvinskianus (how nicely that trips off the tongue!). Mike and Christabel have planted a number of unusual trees and shrubs to give structure and colour and to complement the double herbaceous borders, where early summer roses, pinks and violas give way to vivid reds, yellows and oranges of late summer, with wine reds and scarlets of Acers and Liquidamber lighting the autumn. Older plantings are the "pudding" yews along the bottom wall which give form and interest all year round |
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The vineyard is just across the road
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