Description:‘The Plan of the New Kitchen Garden at Trentham’ featured above was produced by John Brunton, the gardener at Trentham Hall. Sue Gregory suggests that work on a new five acre kitchen garden had begun in the 1740s with a new hothouse, as well as hotbeds and hotwalls. Brunton produced this planting plan once the new garden was completed.
The plan shows the nursery ground, the orchard and the ‘mellon ground’ in the kitchen garden. Intricate drawings show elevations of the large stove and the flues which were fitted into the firewalls in the garden.
Contextual Information featured on pages relating to Trentham Gardens has been provided by Sue Gregory who has been instrumental in the research and selection of documents for this section. Sue has been part of the management team of Staffordshire Gardens & Parks Trust since its creation in 1992 and has over fourteen years of experience researching Trentham Gardens in the Sutherland Papers.