On Saturday Rod and I visited the Old Deanery Garden in Wells.  The garden is one of the most ancient and secretive gardens in Wells, dating back more than 850 years.

While the garden is small, all plants grown are those mentioned by William Turner in his writings in the 16th century and is kept by a group of volunteers.  Saturday was the first of a number of open days taking place in spring, summer and autumn and as well as this visitors are able to enter the garden every Wednesday morning during June, July and August.

We were fortunate to be able to buy some seeds and we’ve improvised, turning the old summer house at the bottom of the garden into a potting shed to see if we can manage to get them to grow for us.

I’ll keep you all informed of progress and hopefully by the end of the summer we will have some of the Tudor plants growing in our own garden.