The Peter Rabbit Garden is now open. This brand new addition to the World of Beatrix Potter allows you to step outside the attraction and into a wonderful evocation of the kitchen and cottage gardens of the Peter Rabbit stories, complete with gooseberry bushes, fruit trees and of course rows of lettuce and carrots.The garden is organic, only uses plants known to Beatrix Potter and is as environmentally friendly as possible.
The Peter Rabbit Garden has been designed by Richard Lucas. In 2005 he and Kim Wilde won a RHS Gold Medal for their ‘Cumbrian Fellside Garden’ at Chelsea Flower Show.
Did you know that Peter Rabbit is eating a radish, not a
carrot, in the famous Beatrix Potter illustration? We are
working with Garden Organic and their Heritage Seed
Library to save the Long Scarlet Radish, which our
researchers believe is the radish in the illustration.
At the attraction you can…