About Me Page
Hello and welcome to my website.
I am an amateur gardener, who loves nothing better than getting stuck into my garden. My business is run from home. Which is nestled into the Campsie Hills in Scotland. I live with my husband, 2 teenage daughters and my dogs Tessie and Poppy. In May 2009 my husband got me a Jack Russell puppy whom we have called Binky. We lost our dear old dog Poppy in January 2009 at the age of 14 who is missed by all of the family.
Here is a photo of Tessie
Here is a photo of Binky
We moved here in 2003. The garden had been badly neglected and completely overgrown by previous owners for 8 years or more.They never touched the garden whatsoever in the 8 years they lived here. Garden is situated in a corner plot and its roughly a quarter of an acre according to a friend.
Here is a photo that shows the views i have outside the garden.
The garden was full of self seeded trees mainly birch, too many conifers, some alive some dead and tonnes of perennial and annual weeds as well as some plants that have not had anything done to them. I found one apple tree which has recovered well after i gave it a pruning to removed dead and old wood. Now it is starting to fruit pretty well, with each passing year the harvest is increasing. I found a lot of dead plants and a few not worth saving as they where way beyond salvaging or just dead wood..
This is my first ever garden and i am enjoying the challenges that come my way. As time goes on i am slowly reclaiming the garden back with a lot of hard work and patience. I finally got the last confier dug out in the summer of 2008. Then for the remainder of the year could not get out into the garden since we had non stop rain until winter started.
I am selling all my extra plants and seeds that are surplus, to help me pay for all the work that shall need doing to the garden. As a lot needs replaced that has rotted or broken beyond repair due to the neglect. There is an awful lot that needs doing and each year i get a little further with progress. The garden is basically going thru a complete overhaul since very little could be saved or recycled. Almost like a blank canvas for me to put my own stamp on the garden as work slowly progresses with the clearing of the years of neglect and life beginning all over again.
The last few years has not been made any easier with wild rabbits doing lots of damage, they thought my garden was a restaurant where they could dine for free and that the unstable ground along my longest boundary was an ideal place to make their home. This has taken up a lot of my time dealing with them. Over this time i lost a lot of new plants, well over half of them succumbed to the rabbits.
Finally in Feb 2008.with the help of a friend we made the boundaries secure by installing chickenwire. Which is dug into the ground and the top half is attached to the fencing around the boundaries. Since then i have worked on closing the warrens down for good which has been slow and tedious as they sometimes reopened them. Now i am down to the last one. I also was able to erect my 12ft x 7ft greenhouse which is similar to a polytunnel after the chickenwire project was finished.
At long last my garden is free of rabbits, got the last warren to close off with chickenwire which i got done in Feb 2009. At least i can restart buying perennial plants now that they will not be killed.
After deliberating for a long time, i have decided to start the search for a Garden Helper/Handyperson, as i just don't have the time to devote to the clearing etc this year due to personal reasons. Hopefully i will find a helper in the next few weeks to help me blitz the garden before winter sets in for another year.
Due to start on some hard landscaping in the garden soon, first task is to lay a new concrete base which is for the new greenhouse that is going to be ordered shortly. This will be the first major landscaping project to get done so i am looking forward to the first project being completed. Got a team of workers all ready waiting for the go ahead to start work.
MY FAVOURITE PERENNIAL FLOWER
I have become a bit of a collector of these beautiful plants and take great joy from selecting new cultivars for my growing collection.
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I first feel in love with these dayliles when i was a child while visited my Great Grandpa Henry.
As a child i loved visiting my grandpa and always looked forward to these visits where i would help him in his garden.
I learnt so much from him on these suuny summer day visits of my youth.
He grew vegetables in his veg garden, and lots of different perennials flowers in many different areas of his big back garden and around the house in Perth Scotland.
He specialized in breeding Carnations or Pinks as they are also know.
My love of gardening was born thanks to him.
He had some of the older Daylilies in his garden, and that is where the spark happened for me with these beautiful plants all those years ago.
When i finally got my own first garden which is my present home, my love of these plants was reawakened when i discovered a daylily in the garden.
Found it when i began work on clearing the neglected garden of self seeded trees,annual and perennial weeds that we inherited from the previous owners.
I waited for it to flower which it did the following year and that is basically how my collection has grown since that lucky find.
They have such a varied colour range,shape and form of flowers and size of blooms to choose from that its hard to resist giving these plants a home.
I have spent the last few years purchasing daylilies and my collection was born.
Daylily Collection stands at 280 cultivars
For Fellow Hemmerocallis Lovers/addicts who would like to give the plants new homes, feel free to get in touch.
If you are looking for a particular cultivar and do not see it on the daylily page, get in touch as i may have it.
My collection is still very young and will take a few years to start clumping up. Only started collecting in 2004
This is a picture of the unknown daylily that i discovered while clearing the garden which reignited my love for the plants.
Now i have so many stunning varities of Hemerocallis and having fun taking pictures of the varieties that have flowered this summer 2009.
Having fun sorting out all the photo's. May have to start a Photo Album so i can share the pictures with other dayliliy collectors that visit my site.
HAPPY GARDENING TO EVERYONE
Here are some pictures of my little buddy the Robin, who visits me each time i am working in the garden. He loves to watch me digging over the soil so he can look for food.
