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A bronze heron statue seems to stand patiently looking at the autumn colours growing on the pond bank

Welcome to The Pond

October 8, 2021 / fay / 11 Comments

Hello and welcome. You’ve arrived on an early post. Please check the home page for latest events and dates for visiting The Pond Garden in 2024. This has been quite a year!

Storytelling sessions in May and more creative activities to come. This year we’re very pleased to see a good display in the wildflower meadow – and self-sown wildflowers have added a lovely extra dash of colour in the borders round the house.

If you like a little wildness, please do come for a wander in our wild woodland garden. Visitors are very welcome by arrangement (just call/email through Scotland’s Gardens Scheme listing or use the Contacts form on this website)

Under a blue sky, yellow green irises reflecting in The Pond: picture Fay Young

Fine weather for flamingoes?

July 14, 2021 / fay / 1 Comment

It’s not always easy, summertime. Fish are not jumping. And the nettles are high. In the last month at Pond Cottage we’ve had high winds and low temperatures. Delicate flowers compete with weedy thugs and then heavy rain has a good go at flattening them all.

But when the sun shines the world changes. And even when it doesn’t there are long hours of daylight and beneath grey skies a defiant burst of bright colour covers the ground.

That’s what the music celebrates in the new video Tommy has made for Scotland’s Garden Scheme YouTube channel. It was recorded at the pond by Tommy Perman and Morgan Szymanski two years ago in the pre-pandemic midsummer of 2019.

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Welcome to The Pond

Fine weather for flamingoes?

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