Sally was up visiting me at Glen House and became a short term wwoofer for one week. We started clearing the lost paths from the walled garden to the castle (pics to follow) and clearing bracken along the main drive to create more space for tree planting. We did a little research on bracken and …
Tarbert Community Garden
A visit to Tarbert Organic Community Gardens this week, Jim Paterson who helps coordinate the gardens explained what’s been happening with funding from the Big Lottery’s Funds For All funding money. The Tarbert and Skipness Community Trust has planted around 1500 trees as part of the Entire Kintyre Orchard project. Some of these trees have …
The Raes’ Return to Torrisdale
2013 will be a special year for the Rae family and Torrisdale Estate, this being their 30th year of visiting the estate for their annual three week holiday. Norman and Isabella Rae started coming to Torrisdale back in 1983 and have returned year after year with their two son’s Jamie and Norman. The Rae family …
Blue sky again..
After a month of mist, fog and rain, life in Torrisdale has been very much like living in a cloudforest. The trees and flowers are in full bloom and vegetation is swollen and so green. The thousands of ponticum flowers which gave the landscape a purple tinge have given way to the pink flashes of …