The English Garden

Second CHANCE

Even towards the tail end of the year, as autumn turns into winter, Craigfoodie’s garden pleases the eye. Perched on the side of a hill in Fife, the white-harled, 17th-century house looks out across a walled garden that is every bit as decorative underneath a dusting of frost as it is at the colourful height of summer.

Craigfoodie has been the home of James and Lindsay Murray since 2002, when they decided to leave nearby St Andrews, where they had lived and worked for many years – James as a solicitor and Lindsay as a teacher. “Our children had grown up and it was time for a move,” says Lindsay. By coincidence, Craigfoodie had been on the market when they had been house-hunting as a young couple in

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