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As you reach the end of the Lakeside Walk you will come across the Rose Garden, a delightful spot which, during spring and summer, is ablaze with colour and is a lovely spot to take a rest. The entrance door to the Walled Garden is just ahead of you.
 To provide his cooks with the finest of fresh produce, Edwin Lascelles developed kitchen gardens of amazing luxuriance. In the Walled Garden itself, vegetables were grown, while in his 'stoves' or hot-houses were "Bananas in great plenty, egg plant (aubergine), fruit-bearing Passiflora (passion fruit) in high perfection, sugar cane, Alpine strawberries, kidney beans, grapes, cucumbers, oranges, figs and peaches". In the Kitchen Garden today, heritage varieties of vegetables are grown on a relatively small scale. The orchard in the south west corner of the garden contains a small collection of traditional and modern dessert and cooking apple varieties.
An unexpected crop to be seen in this garden is hops, which are usually only extensively grown in southern counties. Harewood's hops are hand picked in September and then sent to a local brewery to be made into beer.
 During the spring of 1999 an ambitious 'living artwork' was installed within the Walled Garden. Spiral Meadow, by Diane Howse in collaboration with Andy Halley and Thomas A Clark is a beautiful spiral of wildflowers and grasses through which the visitor can freely stroll.
To think or reflect is to step aside
from events, to give up the world
for a space of internal quiet, as if
you have entered a walled garden.
Thomas A Clark
Plaque on the East door of the Walled Garden
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