Concealed CHARM
Jun 15, 2022
5 minutes
WORDS JULIA WATSON
PHOTOGRAPHS
RAY COX
Blackdykes lies close to the east coast and is exposed to every wind that blows
Although it looks as though it could have been planted centuries ago, the garden at Blackdykes Farm is only 30 years old. “It was created from a wheat field,” says Janey Dalrymple, who in 1992 returned with her husband, Hew, to his home in East Lothian and set about transforming a mellow 19th-century farmhouse into a home for them and their four children.
Blackdykes lies close to Scotland’s east coast, near North Berwick, and it is exposed to every wind that blows, so the Dalrymples’ first priority was to put in a shelterbelt of trees such as oak, alder and beech to cocoon the garden from the weather. Only
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