The Scent of PERFECTION
FROM THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF ERICA McGarrigle’s garden, there can be no doubting her love of roses, whether they’re scaling trees and walls or mixing demurely with the starlets of high summer. But whereas many are beguiled by beauty or romance, Erica was initially guided by a simple pragmatism. “As a mother of four boys, I had limited time to garden, but I learned that by planting early bulbs and some repeat-flowering roses, I had colour from spring until autumn,” she explains.
It was the start of a love affair with gardening that continues apace today at Corner House Farm, a Grade II listed farmhouse, which, for 300 years, has overlooked a sleepy Lincolnshire village green. It is now 15 years since Erica and her husband, Colin, moved to Little Humby, and set about creating this enchanting garden. Throughout the two-acre site and paddock, Erica has created beds and borders interwoven
