Historic Vegetable Garden Oud-Amelisweerd - Bunnik
This 1-hectare vegetable garden was part of Oud-Amelisweerd country estate. Many estates had a kitchen garden to provide the owners with fresh fruit and vegetables, herbs and flowers. Exclusive varieties and exotics were often grown. At Oud-Amelisweerd, pineapples, peaches and grapes, among others, grew.
Behind the vegetable garden were an ice cellar, a menagerie with exotic animals and an aviary. Many cultural-historical elements of the kitchen garden have been preserved or restored, such as the seventeenth-century barn and the herb circle. Even today, you still come across exotic plants. Against the stone wall of the barn, for instance, the subtropical kiwi grows.
Historic Vegetable Garden Oud-Amelisweerd
Koningslaan 9a
3981 HD
Bunnik
Contact details
T: +31 343 57 59 95
E: kastelen@fietsnetwerk.nl
W: https://www.kastelen.nl/
Cycling is not allowed on parts of Oud-Amelisweerd. To be visited on Castle Day. Part of the Cycle route full of stories: https://dagvanhetkasteel.nl/exoten/
