March 2012

The Garden at Huntlyknowe...

One of the big challenges we faced at Huntlyknowe was the maintenance of the large garden.  

The house at one stage was owned by a family that ran a tree & plant nursery.  They set out the garden with many native and non native plants and trees sparing no expense in terms of materials, labour and quality of planting.  

The original garden was laid out in the 1950s & 60s and was now overgrown and in need of lots of TLC.

Fast forward to the present time and the garden was already proving to be very time consuming to maintain.  We'd spend hours in the evenings and weekends just trying to 'keep on top' of it.

Then we had an idea....

Maybe we could subdivide the garden into two plots.  This would make things more manageable us and we could sell half the garden to someone who could even build a new house on it?

Time to talk to an architect !