The Garden at Lilybank
I loved my garden from afar for at least 10 years before I could actually call it my own and now, 28 years on, I still love it. And I love the cottage that came with it too! My last garden was nice, but it fell away downhill from the house, and I thought it would be lovely to have a garden surrounding one’s house.
We have been through a lot, and we have grown old together and I feel more of a custodian now rather than a gardener. My addition of a summer house (and good neighbours!) during Covid when we could only congregate outside has made the garden at Lilybank complete.
I really enjoy growing hardy vegetables, especially things that slugs don’t like such as leeks, onions, peas, broad beans, runner beans and courgettes. I find it so rewarding to bring the vegetables on from seed and then pot them on in the greenhouse. Fruit such as raspberries and plums do very well, especially now my dear husband isn’t here to over-zealously prune the plums trees, although I do miss his help around the garden.
The garden is entirely pesticide-free and nature friendly to encourage a wide variety of birds including woodpeckers, collared doves, and goldfinches. As Monty Don maintains, every garden should have a pond to invite nature in, so my daughter recently added a pond, which is now flourishing with water marigolds.
Passers-by often remark that they love to look over the wall at my garden each season and see which plants are blooming. It is such a pleasure to have been invited by the Deeside Rotary to share it with you for a good cause and I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do.
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