May is a busy month with lots of visitors- not busy by English standards but for us! We had a lovely party from the south of Sweden last...

After 6 weeks of clearing up after Storm Eowyn we are just about ready to welcome our first visitors on Friday. We needed 3 bonfires to...

We have cleared most of the fallen trees and timber with only a couple of awkward ones to be tackled by Liam the tree surgeon. It’s been...

It was quite a blow last Friday- Mike and I found it very stressful being in the house all day with the wind howling and the trees in all...

We’ve been working hard, clearing up the amazing mess of branches, trunks and foliage after the storm on 24 January. We were lucky really...

The days are shortening fast and good daylight is at a premium. When did we last see the sun for more than 5 minutes? Still, there’s...

We had a great weekend with the West of Scotland Drystone Wallers who worked here two days - it was dry and bright and not really midgy!...

It’s been a warm and pleasant week with lots of sunshine- such a change from August. The contractors have completed their work on our...

I can’t remember a wetter August- it often is a fairly wet month but this year is exceptional. We have had almost 11 inches/ 300 m so...

We have to start early when planning a plant sale- really they are every 2 or 3 years when we run out of space in the rhododendron...

At long last the vegetable patch is starting to produce something- the soil took so long to warm up this year that courgettes and beans...

As the colour of spring and early summer fades, certain individual plants stand out against the shades of green. One of these is R...

Although the weather is changeable and the main rhododendron flowering season is over, there is a lovely scent in the air. This comes...

Behind the house, on the south facing wall of the barn is a huge plant of Actinidia kolokmicta, currently full of tiny white flowers and...

Every time I walk through the garden I see something else in flower that wasn’t apparent yesterday- and now the azaleas are blooming the...

In the front section of our conservatory, attached to the house, several tender rhododendrons have been flowering for the past fortnight....

Now the early magnolias are over, helped by the fierce winds, we are just beginning the second act in the garden. Rhododendron falconeri...

We've decided to hold a guided garden walk this coming Saturday 30 March at 2pm because the magnolias are magnificent at the moment. Also...

We have been working hard to get everything ready for opening on Thursday- 21 March- as always. The huge Gibson crosses are already in...

This week we are emptying the pond- never seen so many leaves, branches, twigs and gravel washed into it in previous years. It's a huge...