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Harmony Garden
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The ornamental areas of the garden include fine and unusual bulbs in the spring, herbaceous and shrub plantings through the summer and autumn, and the walls are clad with fruit and climbing plants. There is to be considerable enhancement of these features over the coming years.
The kitchen garden is run without the use of chemicals, and is planned to provide more than just edible produce. As well as growing flowers for drying here, vegetables are chosen for their colourful foliage, there are purple, green and orange cauliflowers, red and white flowering and two-tone runner beans, golden and purple French beans, multicoloured Swiss chard, and golden beetroot. We have alpine strawberry hanging baskets, cascading six feet, a squash and gourd tunnel ten feet high with the fruits hanging above you. Tomatoes and cucumbers are grown outside in fruit cages, and we grow a selection of courgettes in interesting shapes and colours, not to mention marrows, which we strongly recommend stuffed with haggis.
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