Pacific Northwest Gardening: Another tour of England, 1 by Laurie1

Laurie1 wrote:
This is a photo of the interior of the big house on the right - what's interesting is that the building is broken up into rooms, each one being able to be closed off from the next so that they can control the temperatures depending on the plants. there is a tile walk straight through, but the area along the brick wall (right) has a long narrow bed for growing vines, and on the left gravel beds for what ever else. The structure is metal framed with timber structures. There are cast iron support pilars along the route. These were not only heated by sun, but they also had an enormous furnace that had forced are heating running along the floor! The rooms closed to the furnace were for growing out of season fruit, at the furtherest end was the fernery - kept frost free).