Acorn Bank Garden and Watermill

Last week visited Acorn Bank a National Trust Property near Temple Sowerby in Cumbria. The gardens and woodland cover an extensive area. They include a watermill and an outstanding herb garden of medicinal and culinary herbs.

Part of the garden at Acorn Bank.

The watermill.

The waterwheel.

Ferns cover the wall at the side of the steps to the mill.

A selection of culinary herbs growing in a trough in the walled herb garden.

It was late in the season so not many plant flowering in the herb garden. This was one of the exceptions poke root (Phytolacca americana).

Sweet Joe Pye. (Eupatorium purpureum)

Bowles mint in flower.

 A small sycamore tree in the woodland. The back spots are caused by the fungus sycamore tar spot (Rhytisma acerinum).

Tiny bantam hens roaming free in the garden.

A coal tit on on of the many bird boxes.