When Dr Anne was a young child the garden was the domain of father. There was a hen run with half a dozen chickens. The rest was cultivated much like a farm with a rotation of crops: potatoes, onions, carrots turnips, kale, cabbage of all types, caulieflowers etc. There were strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants and gooseberries. There were two old apple and a pear trees. There were straight rows of dahlias and crysantemums. Mother had barrels, pots and borders of annual flowers such as alysum and lobelia, petunias and busy lizzies.
Mother took over the garden in 1982. The garden was landscaped and developed over 27 years winning 'Best Garden in Portsoy' three times.
Now the garden is the domain of Dr Anne. Watch out for her reflections as she develops it to a new dimension. With this in mind Dr Anne spent many an hour in the Botanical Gardens in NZ and OZ. She loved the Christchurch Botanical Garden. On her return home she joined the Royal Horticultural Society http://www.rhs.org.uk/
Watch this space.
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