The Victorian Garden had many physical features not often seen in today's gardens. While there were large nurseries that gardeners could purchase plants from, Victorian gardeners, particularly if they had a large garden, spent a great deal of their time propagating and raising plants themselves. For this they needed cold frames and forcing pits, compost heaps and greenhouses, and an array of equipment to aid their cause.

This section covers the vast array of garden features and equipment used by Victorian gardeners, everything from garden paths and walls to hot and ice-houses.

A Garden Almanac from c. 1800 showing what to plant when. This mainly pertains to kitchen gardens and orchards.

Cold Frames

Fruit Gardens - how to espalier fruit trees.

Garden Manures used in Victorian times

Glasshouses: greenhouses, hothouses and conservatories.

Hotbeds:

A Short History

How to make a Hot Bed

Heated Walls - while heated walls were mainly a feature of kitchen gardens, they could also be used in the flower garden to help raise tender plants.

An ice-house: how to build an ice-house in your garden, and how to fill your ice-house.

Garden paths or walks - how to build.

Pits (forcing pits, pineapple pits etc.)

Potting mixes in the Victorian era.

The Potting Shed