The rather flattering article about the Logie House Garden in the November 2021 edition of The English Garden (the picture above, taken by Ray Cox for the article and used with his kind permission) prompted us to look for some photographs of how the garden was before we moved swapped houses with my mother-in-law in 1991. The ones we found are just as I remembered it: a glorious riot of colour in the summer months …. and a huge amount of work! Neil MacDonald was the gardener and he did the whole thing which is quite incredible. He grew 4,000 antirrhinums for the formal garden, along with a large number of red begonias, surrounded by the box and yew hedges. The vegetable garden was very productive, and there was always wonderful soft fruit in the summer. Our children used to love being allowed to pull up a carrot, wash it off and eat it straight away – nothing could taste better! My mother-in-law used to pick the quantities of raspberries into a mushroom basket tied round her waist (so she could use both hands to pick) … I think it was onto her old Girl Guide belt!