Our Garden
Picture Slideshow of Our front garden in 2012
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Picture slideshow of our back garden
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Pictures of our round garden and woodland area.
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Autumn in our Garden
Hi Alaister: Have been a fan of your website since typing into google “Hypericum Magical Beauty” a couple of years ago. Since moving to my present home 2 years ago,we have been claiming our 20 year old overgrown garden We have gardened for many years but now are probably of your generation and want a garden we can sit in in summer do a little pottering and look at it in winter from the conservatory and still see beauty. You seem to have acheived this with your year round interest tho I know you must work very hard to keep it like this. So we are gradually putting in more evergreens along with our favourite herbacious plants and bulbs. We have appreciated info on what grows in NE. We presently live in Stonehaven and have good soil and a south west facing garden. We have retained some of the more mature shrubs and trees and turfed out the thugs so not quite a blank canvas. We will continue to monitor your blog and appreciate the photos very much. I love to see “whole gardens” as am interested in the design aspect too.
Would it be possible some time in the future to post a plan of your garden, (I assume it is in the Leggart area)as I am demented trying to figure out where the round garden is and the pond, greenhouse etc. Call me nosey!!
Anyhow, hope this finds you well. Looking at the photos of your wedding. It is scary I had a similar outfit and hairdo then. (Think my handbag was bigger tho) You had to fit in the supersized can of lacquer!!!) Myra will appreciate this!
Regards
Margaret K
PS Your blog was the entrance to a wonderful world of gardening blogs, I went from Larrys all the way round the world. I have around 40 on my favourites list but yours is at the top. Thank you.
Thank you Margaret, you are very observant, I think I will call you Miss Marples. I hope you were not affected by the flooding. I will have to give garden plan a bit of thought. Well anyway, when walking through the garden gate a narrow passage leads to the decked patio area. A few steps up from there brings you to the main garden area, continue walking up the path brings you to the round garden, walk up a little further and go through another gate takes you to the woodland area. Enjoy your gardening in 2013.
I now officially dislike my garden lol. Your garden is beautiful and shows the years of hard work that has gone into it.
When you started it did you have a plan in mind or on paper or did you just decide as you went along?
I love how enclosed your garden is, I guess this is what gives it the protection needed to grow so many lovely plants in what is considered quite a hard climate?
I struggle with my garden because it is completely exposed, on the one hand I want to plant tall hedging to enclose it but on the other hand we have spectacular views and don’t want to lose them.
Thank you for the tour of your beautiful gardens
Linda
Linda, I would not want to lose the view you talk of. However with a lot of work I am sure you will be surprised at the garden you can create even in an exposed site.
Love your beautiful garden and blog!
Can you give me advice about when to plant tomato plugs in a greenhouse (grow bags). I’m a novice gardener. Any ideas of variety and what might be good to plant with them?
Appreciate any tips!
Thank you
Thank you Alison, I am very much an ornamental gardener. Here is a link which should give good advice. http://www.plantmenow.co.uk/growing-tomatoes-greenhouse.aspx
What are the red flowers in your front garden please? they look stunning. I have clay soil and my front garden is very sunny all day when the sun shines? Are they suitable for clay soil?
Thankyou so much
Hello Hilary
The red flowers are Begonia Flamboyant. Tubers have to be started off in the greenhouse and then planted out when danger of frost has passed. I am sure the soil would be fine with garden compost added. Begonias are generally happiest in semi shade, Flamboyant can tolerate full sun.
Hello Alistair,
Got onto your site via a Google search for Abies koreana, an evergreen recommended by Alan Titchmarsh in his ‘how to garden’ series (Garden Design). What a lovely garden you have. Looking at your pictures was a joy and inspiration. At the moment I am looking for ideas for small evergreen trees and found the examples from your garden pictures helpful. Many thanks. Back to gardening in Dalgety Bay!
Hello Carole, The Abies does eventually get to be quite large.