In some cases, hardy flowers for cutting were grown outside there, rather than in the flower garden. In large houses, the kitchen garden was typically placed diagonally to the rear and side of the house, not impeding the views from the front and rear facades, but still quick to access. Such large examples very often included greenhouses and furnace-heated hothouses for more tender delicacies, and also flowers for display in the house an orangery was the ultimate type. Historically, most small country gardens were probably mainly or entirely used as kitchen gardens, but in large country houses the kitchen garden was a segregated area, normally rectangular and enclosed by a wall or hedge, walls being useful for training fruit trees as well as offering shelter from wind. It is regarded as essential that the kitchen garden could be quickly accessed by the cook. It differs from an allotment in that a kitchen garden is on private land attached or very close to the dwelling. The kitchen garden is different not only in its history, but also its functional design.
The plants are grown for domestic use though some seasonal surpluses are given away or sold, a commercial operation growing a variety of vegetables is more commonly termed a market garden (or a farm). It is used for growing edible plants and often some medicinal plants, especially historically.
The traditional kitchen garden, vegetable garden, also known as a potager (from the French jardin potager) or in Scotland a kailyaird, is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden – the ornamental plants and lawn areas. Typical potager ( French intensive gardening) with its traditional scarecrow in the French countryside Walled 17th-century kitchen garden at Ham House near London, with orangery in the distance.
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