Our 4000 square meter garden is set in a rural environment and has great potential. It holds Christmas trees and orchids and everything in between. The garden is partially set in meadow land but is also rich with rocks which means that we have a varied environment for the plants and the garden is divided into different rooms or themes.

We moved here in December 2011 and for the first three years we struggled with a jumble of raspberries, blackberries, lupins, field vine, peppermint and cotoneasters. We eventually found the structure of the garden that was underneath this jumble and have since built up various perennial borders, planted exciting shrubs and trees, built a greenhouse and made a kitchen garden.
There is a peat bed with some unusual plants, rose beds, perennial border, sunshine flower bed, Japanese-inspired corner, summer meadow, a newly started woodland and much more. We have two small ponds with frogs, toads, salamanders and in one of them we also have fish. Various beautiful dragonflies also like the ponds and occasionally even water snakes visit. There is a rich bird life in the garden and both the birds and the insects have several places to live. We try to live in harmony with nature and in some parts of the garden the wild is allowed to creep in under orderly conditions. Both moose and roe deer usually visit and that’s why we’ve fenced off a part of the garden where we grow the plants that are otherwise at risk of being eaten.

The garden offers several different places to sit and enjoy both in the sun and in the shade.