Greens garden

Greens garden This is a story of an island garden in the north of Scotland. Now it is full of life and colours all year round.

Created from nothing by a couple of amateurs, using mostly found and reclaimed materials including driftwood.

We planted a baby fern on the shoulder of this stunning driftwood chunk. The wood is already soft and there was a wee ga...
01/09/2026

We planted a baby fern on the shoulder of this stunning driftwood chunk. The wood is already soft and there was a wee gap there, just asking for something to be growing out of it! In the shade of all the shrubs behind it, we thought a fern would be the best fitting plant. 🙂

Happy Monday to you all! This post will hopefully add to your gardening knowledge. And if it makes you smile, even bette...
31/08/2026

Happy Monday to you all!

This post will hopefully add to your gardening knowledge. And if it makes you smile, even better. 🙂

🤫 We have kept a small secret all summer. Come for a wee tour through the garden and a talk about mulching and other th...
29/08/2026

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We have kept a small secret all summer.

Come for a wee tour through the garden and a talk about mulching and other things. The link is in comments.

Thank you, Hannah and Will, for putting it all together. It was a great day in your company! 😉




Earlier this summer we presented here our Moraea spathulata, a rather special African plant. We introduced it into Green...
25/08/2026

Earlier this summer we presented here our Moraea spathulata, a rather special African plant. We introduced it into Greens garden last spring, it overwintered in a well drained bed without problems. Its flower resembles an iris and it is beautiful.

When we bought it though, we had no idea how it would flower, the attraction was somewhere else - in the foliage! Seemingly just dark green long leaves, nothing much different from many other plants. Except, have you ever seen a plant with leaves dressed in lace 'stockings'?

We couldn't believe it either when we saw it at the nursery. And we knew from that moment it would make a great addition to all the weird and wonderful plants we tend to gather in our garden. 🙂

Stay tuned for more exciting plants.



🌸 Wildlife alert! Recent night walks through the garden have revealed that we seem to have established a healthy populat...
24/08/2026

🌸 Wildlife alert!

Recent night walks through the garden have revealed that we seem to have established a healthy population of leopard slugs. We have read about their mating ritual during which they hang on a string of slime from a branch and spin around. In our garden we found them hanging from a retaining wall outside the window.

Just last year we were contemplating a purchase of leopard slugs for our garden to help reduce the population of all the other slugs. We didn't buy them in the end and the better a surprise it was when we spotted our first leopard slug in the spring. They have since become a common sighting in our garden in the night.


🌸🌸🌸 Thank you to all of you amazing people who came to our open garden event today. It was great speaking to you, sharin...
23/08/2026

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Thank you to all of you amazing people who came to our open garden event today.

It was great speaking to you, sharing ideas and stories from the gardening world and just having a great time.

We are grateful for all the support you have shown today to this small, privately owned but always open garden.

Gina and Prem

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The pond has lost its 'new-build' appearance and it has set nicely into its surroundings. The frog we saw a few weeks ag...
16/08/2026

The pond has lost its 'new-build' appearance and it has set nicely into its surroundings. The frog we saw a few weeks ago hasn't been spotted since and we just hope that rather than being a one off visitor it has gone to tell its friends and they will come in larger numbers to colonise the damp area around the pond before long. There is plenty of wildlife in the pond itself and around, plenty hiding places under stones and permanently damp logs. We are convinced it is just a matter of time before our garden becomes a permanent home for frogs.

🌸 WE ARE HAVING AN OPEN DAY! 😃 Come join us for an open day next Sunday. Take a walk through the garden with a free cupp...
15/08/2026

🌸 WE ARE HAVING AN OPEN DAY! 😃

Come join us for an open day next Sunday. Take a walk through the garden with a free cuppa and a home bake, see what's growing, what's in bloom, what we are working on. We can talk plants and have a good blether, exchange tips and experiences.

We will also have plants and shrubs for sale at £5 each, ready to plant in your garden and establish before the winter.

You are all welcome.

Prem and Gina


We have started a new composter! 🤩 It was still half full, but we had run out of space in the current one so we had no c...
09/08/2026

We have started a new composter! 🤩

It was still half full, but we had run out of space in the current one so we had no choice. What was left in this one has been temporarily moved into builders bags. It was good to see that our compost was full of red, juicy worms. 🙂

We left a heap of the old compost at the bottom of the composter, about three shovels worth. Sort of a starter pack of life. Worms and all kinds of bacteria and other microorganisms can start working on whatever we feed into it.

The first fill of the composter was already a fairly potent mix. A layer of straw on top of the 'starter pack', then willow trimmings, a big bucket of 'soup' made with kitchen and garden scraps which had been stewing under a lid for a couple of months. Then a wheelbarrow of catmint stems from last week's tidy up of the rose beds and a layer of fresh fuchsia and honeysuckle trimmings. We then topped all this with a decent layer of freshly cut grass clippings. We used a fork to work them in deeper into all the lower layers.

We hope this mix heats up naturally and once it does, we plan to seal the top with a layer of cardboard to keep the heat in for longer and to speed up the composting process of the first fill. From experience we should be able to feed this composter for about a year before it gets to full capacity. 🙂

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