Morna Knottenbelt will talk us through how she started from scratch to build this fabulous garden.

This talk will include a short history of the Walled Garden followed by the development of various borders including the White Garden. The main topic is Late Summer Borders which will cover a wide range of flowering plants suitable for growing in the UK.

A discussion on how to create late flowering in your garden with the help of labelled photographs of a range of plants, should be of interest to all gardeners.  Yellow daises such as Helianthus and Rudbeckia, Asters, Lobelias, Salvias, Echinaceas and many other plants will be covered in detail.  Tips on dead heading to prolong continued flowering and how to have beautiful colour right up to the first frost and beyond.

Morna has had a keen interest in plants from an early age in Perth. She and Derek have lived in Warwickshire, Zimbabwe and the Wirral. In all these places she enjoyed visiting gardens, taking notes and learning their Latin names. In 2012, when Morna retired as a veterinary surgeon, they moved back to Scotland and took over the Walled Garden at Carbeth near Killearn.

The garden was a blank canvas and needed new ideas to create borders, planting a wide range of plants including herbaceous borders, trees and shrubs. From her visits to many of the best gardens in England, Wales and Scotland, she had lots of plants on her wish list and lots of ideas!

It is an on-going commitment to maintain and improve the garden every year which is open under Scotland’s Gardens Scheme from mid-June to mid-October by arrangement.