The garden at the Old Vicarage, Leigh on Mendip, is the flourishing spirit of Asterion & Co.

We are also proud to be the
new Kitchen Show Garden for Pennard Plants.

A wooden potting shed surrounded by a lush garden with colorful flowers and greenery, with large trees in the background.
A variety of vintage gardening tools hanging on a wooden wall, including trowels, scrapers, and hoes with wooden handles.
Close-up of red and brown leaves on a branch with a bright sun in the background against a clear blue sky.
Glasshouse A at The Old Vicarage Asterion and Co.JPG
Glasshouse B at The Old Vicarage Asterion and Co.JPG
Willow frames for beans A Asterion and Co.jpeg
Roses over arch in kitchen garden with obelisk Asterion and Co.jpeg
Inside potting shed Asterion and Co.jpeg
View of kitchen garden Asterion and Co.jpeg
Potting shed view in the kitchen garden Asterion and Co.jpeg
Obelisk A Asterion and Co.jpeg
Espalier apples Asterion and Co.jpeg
Globe artichoke with Rose Chafers Asterion and Co.jpeg
Plums Asterion and Co.jpeg
Climbers Asterion and Co.jpeg
Hand tools in potting shed Asterion and Co.jpeg
Apples on espalier Asterion and Co.jpeg
Triangular mixed vegetable bed Asterion and Co.jpeg
Tomatoes and marigolds Asterion and Co.jpeg
Seed trays well underway Asterion and Co.jpeg
Pear tree in fruit Asterion and Co.jpeg
Nectarines ripening on the tree Asterion and Co.jpeg
Peaches on the tree Asterion and Co.jpeg
Dog overlooking terrace Asterion and Co.jpeg
Foxgloves Asterion and Co.jpeg
Crocosmia and Russian Sage Asterion and Co.jpeg
Plants on kitchen step Asterion and Co.jpeg
Lillies Asterion and Co.jpeg
Petanque area Asterion and Co.jpeg
Sundial Asterion and Co.jpeg
Sunflowers in Vincent Van Gogh vase Asterion and Co.jpeg
Outside fire area in gravel garden Asterion and Co.jpeg

Formal areas — the yard, terraces, rose quadrant, and gravel garden — have been sensitively restored.

New additions include:

The Pennard Plants kitchen show garden designed by Christine Whateley, is now in its fourth year. Learn more about the collaboration with Pennard Plants and the dates for the opening of the kitchen garden here.

The kitchen garden provides the ingredients for Asterion & Co. course lunches and produce for one of our brilliant collaborators, The Holcombe Inn, a five-star and award-winning restaurant in nearby Holcombe, supplementing their own fine kitchen garden

A second-year wildflower meadow filled with yellow rattle

Wilding zones and relaxed mowing to enhance biodiversity

A perrenial edible garden where we can harvest fruit, seed, root or flower - many plants in the edible and kitchen garden are labelled to aid learning (and can be ordered for delivery).

Since 2021, the garden has been restructured around principles of regeneration and abundance:

A soil-first, no-chemicals approach

Dense planting, polyculture beds, and habitats for wildlife

Thriving populations of frogs, toads, pollinators, and natural predators

The guiding mantra: bare soil is dead soil