The Designer Gardens

Yesterday Kath (Scotkat) and I went to visit Glendoick. The plan was to have lunch, then look around the GC, then the Gardens. We managed to stick to the plan, and I only bought a Eucalyptus Gunnii to plant in the pot that was recently vacated by my once lovely (and very very expensive) but now very dead standard Holly (still very upset with myself about the holly – shouldn’t have bought it, it hardly ever works out for me when I spend a lot of money on a plant!).

I took a few pics in the gardens, I expect Kath will do a blog as she took loads more than me. This was Kath’s first ever visit. Unfortunately we had left it a bit late to see the Rhodys. There Read more…

During the summer months, we like to keep a fresh bouquet of flowers in our reception area. I cut this bouquet from one of our two cutting gardens and just plunked it into a vase. No flower-arranging skills required!

I planted the beds in early May, using the wooden planting grid from our Square Foot Garden Kit to measure out the rows. These poly-coated steel planting grids would work equally well.

The appeal of a cutting garden is abundance: having lots of flowers so you don’t miss the ones you cut, and having enough colors, shapes and sizes to compose unique and interesting arrangements from early summer right to frost.

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