The English Garden

A Prairie in ABSTRACT

“Even today we’ll still come across something unexpected buried in the soil!”

When David and Kim Warden first encountered the walled garden at Tweedhill, they felt the opportunity to create a garden there was too good to pass up on. However, the overgrown wilderness they took on in March 2015 required a significant amount of vision, stamina and determination to transform it into the plant haven it is now. “I was 63 when we moved here, and it’s been quite a challenge to clear the approximately one-acre site of scrubby vegetation, fell overgrown conifers and fill 11 skips with all the rubbish and rubble that had been left on site from when the previous owners built the house here,” David acknowledges.

Working out where to begin can be tricky when faced with such

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