1st Volunteer Day at Kellie Castle Garden Fife, Scotland

Today is my first day as a volunteer at the Kellie Castle Garden. I was captivated by gardens after visiting Sissinghurst recently and thought I could learn something right in my own back yard at Kellie.

This is how it looks, Tuesday, June 13, 2017.

The long row of nepta - also known as catmints - beside the grassy walk is in full bloom and about to welcome in the delphiniums behind it. You can just see them coming in on the lower left hand of the photo. The flow of blooming colour soothes the soul.

So much changes each day in this lovely walled garden, part of the National Trust of Scotland.

 Apples beginning....just beginning. Remember we are so far north.

 The way the fern unroll and come alive each spring is breathtaking.

 Foxglove.

 This is my first job.

Pruning the roses along the border just outside the wall.

Where there are no buds, new growth be gone. I was rather timid at first, cutting off such long stems. But Andy told me to be ruthless as it's not that easy to make a mistake.







This is the view to the East.

This is the view to the West and the stables and Castle beyond.

From the walled doorway looking south to the Firth of Forth beyond. Edinburgh is just across the water.




Kellie Castle Garden. Place of Magic.










http://www.nts.org.uk/Visit/Kellie-Castle