Walled Garden Blog Archives

Here at the Park we have a pheasant & duck shoot and today is the last day of the season. BD and his son have gone out for the last time to be with all those who make it possible for them to [...]

Marmalade has a long and interesting history. There is an apocryphal tale that it was invented for Mary Queen of Scots. When she sailed to Scotland to claim her throne she was terrible sea-sick [...]

Although I love the Walled Garden and I view it as my personal Paradise, what pays for its upkeep is our main agri-business, which is a pedigree Holstein dairy herd! Dunleath Estates Ltd. is a [...]

So it’s mid-winter and we’re hard at it in the Walled Garden. All the fruit trees have been pruned and we’re now picking up the debris and the permeable membrane which has kept [...]

It is cold, windy and an hour ago we had a wintry downpour. Just what you would expect from a mid-winter’s day. In the Walled Garden however, the restoration of the glass houses is coming [...]

Happy New Year! On the 2nd January the sun was shining this was not the case on the 1st. I can already tell that the days are getting longer. I took Jess for a walk at 10 to four and we were back [...]