Kevock

I mentioned I had been with our U3A garden group to visit Kevock Garden last week, so I must put in a few pics from there. Laid out over 40 years ago by physicist and horticulturalist Sir John Randall, the garden is situated on a steep bank overlooking the North Esk river. Once a year it is opened to the public under the Scotland's Gardens scheme, but otherwise groups may visit by appointment only. The house itself at the top of the slope was designed by Morris and Steedman and built in 1959. It still looks remarkably contemporary today.

Kevock is probably better known for its nursery gardens, but on Friday we were privileged to be allowed to see the garden itself at Kevock Road, near Loanhead.

It was a warm and sunny afternoon, thankfully, as we explored the little paths, glades and clearings, finishing off the visit with question time over a cup of tea and a biscuit with Dave, from Forres, the chief propagator of the nursery gardens, and a look at the plant stall where some of the group bought plants to take home.

I'm not going to give you a lecture about the various plants we saw, you'll be glad to know. Just enjoy some photos. If you want to enlarge them, just click on the photo. Most of them will enlarge though there may be one or two that won't. No idea why that is, or what I can do about it!!




















One last pic and that's me for today! It has taken most of the day to get this uploaded! Hope you enjoyed the flowers! Talk again soon!

PS. I think the photos I position centrally are the ones that don't enlarge! I'll just have to put pics in on the left or right sides of the page from now on!