The Walled Garden as you walk through the pergola. https://www.biltmore.com/blog/preparing ... -for-fall/
four-acre garden designed by famed father of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted envisioned the Walled Garden as a functional kitchen garden of fruits and vegetables. “Vanderbilt kind of nixed that idea,” admits Murray. Biltmore’s owner, George Vanderbilt, wanted a pretty showpiece instead. “A garden of ornament rather than utility,” said Vanderbilt. Not surprisingly, the man cutting the paycheck won.