This morning we head to the sea – specifically to a striking section of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, the largest shingle ridge in the world. It’s a breathtaking spectacle, in one of Britain truly wild places, where the shingle is host to a dazzling wildflower display, including rock sea lavender, shrubby sea blite, sea beet and yellow horned poppy.
Here we’ll be joined by Fraser Christian, a professional forager, market gardener, fisherman, and qualified chef and nutritionist.
We will have lunch at the Seaside Boarding House, overlooking Chesil Beach.
In the afternoon our destination is another of the outstanding and rarely visited private gardens of Dorset: the Old Rectory at Litton Cheney. This four-acre hillside plot features a formal garden with a pleached crab tree border designed by Arne Maynard, over 350 rose bushes, a magnificent natural swimming pond, and a walled garden with a more relaxed style of planting.