Its formality and paving means the Kitchen Garden is our most hard-landscaped area, but it’s paid for itself many times over.
Adding a classic sage greenhouse is the only recent development. The paths, arches and box hedges have been there for many years.
Nearly all of the box balls and box hedging began life as cuttings.
The arches have stood the test of time, as have many of the roses and clematis that scramble up them. 
We splash out on the to-die-for irises, Crocosmias and Alstroemerias, but the first two reproduce quickly, to the point where we’re soon passing them onto gardening friends, while the latter runs amok underground and has to pulled away from its neighbours.
Most of the fruit and herbs come from long-established trees and bushes with the veg from seed or tiny plug plants. We go through whole seasons where it would be ridiculous to buy fruit or veg, but our aim is not to be self-sustaining, its to find varieties you can’t buy easily in shops and having the excuse to nip out to pick or cut something fresh from the garden.