Secrets of SUCCESS
True gardening finesse comes when you’ve really got to know your garden: when you’ve been tending it for so long that you know your patch inside out. Mary Gladstone has been working on the garden at Craichlaw since 1992, when, newly married to her husband Andrew, she moved into the Dumfries & Galloway house and estate he’d inherited seven years before they met.
Nigh-on three decades later, she’s transformed the garden around the house from what was more or less a blank canvas into a richly planted, well-designed space, and got to know it intimately in the process. From the peculiarities of the climate in this corner of south-west Scotland, to the plants that do well and how their care has to
