ABC Wednesday 5/ Garden Visit: K is for...
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... Kilver Court A couple of weekends ago, my SUP friend S and I visited Kilver Court : this was in the same trip as last week's ABC Wednesday Jaunt which led us past the lovely prairie-style planting in Radstock. This garden's been on my must-see list for a couple of reasons: it was opened to the public last year after an extensive restoration and also because it features a rather prominent viaduct - a relic from when the Somerset & Dorset railway ran through the town of Shepton Mallet. This is a listed building and so is set to stay. I was intrigued how the garden's design would utilise this 'feature', especially as Chippenham has a similar - and equally historic - viaduct slap bang in the centre of town. I was looking for inspiration and ideas for a possible public planting transformation. The gardens were initially developed by the local factory owner for his workers in the 1800s. In the 1960s, the Showerings family (of Babycham fame: it was b