Sally Mays’ Own Garden

This is a large evolving family garden which incorporates mixed circulation areas for play, entertaining, planting combinations and experimentation, vegetable growing and recycling.
The garden has developed over a period of 8 years from a tired, run down Lock Keeper’s cottage garden to an exciting outdoor space which gives Sally the chance to experiment with planting combinations and unique spaces.
The garden is an ongoing project and the most recent introduction is the raised beds for vegetable and herb growing and a reinforced mesh pergola which acts as a walkway and a support for growing ornamental gourds and squashes.  There is also a quirky shed which is painted in bright stripes and a crazy scarecrow which is built from recycled materials such as wood and plant pots!
Recycling and reusing materials has become an important element in the ongoing maintenance of this large garden, particularly with the amount of compost and mulch that is generated from clippings, weeds and cardboard. This is put back onto the soil as mulch dressing to improve all the borders and the hedgerows along the boundary.

Select here to download the article on Sally and her garden, featured in July edition of 'Red' Magazine (pdf 165Kb) >>>