The Nursery Garden 2
This showy New Zealand mountain daisy enjoys cool moist conditions,
but also needs good drainage. Their spiky silver rosettes look
as if they have been hammered from metal, and are a telling year-round
feature.
In front of the bothies is a small knot garden in green and gold
box. This reflects the splendid tall box hedge that must have
started life when Queen Victoria was still on the throne.
When we came here this hedge consisted of a row of sticks with
tufts of foliage on top. Much of it lay flat on the ground, flattened
by snow and wind. We wired it back together, fed it and started
clipping. It took more that ten years to restore it. But it was
worth it.
On the other side of the path, enclosed by a beech hedge, is
a small garden designed to be at its best in autumn. Early season
interest is provided by the climbing rose Blairi No 2, and various
oriental poppies, but essentially its period of glory starts in
late summer.
The Autumn Garden >
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