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We Went to Visit - lovely garden at The Paddock at Whittington Moor

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00:00Hello Wendy. Hello. Lovely to meet you and can you tell us about your garden here today please?

00:05Well we started it about 23 years ago and it just took over our life. We had horses for 30 odd years

00:11and then we had nothing to do so we started with the garden. It was just a paddock then and so

00:16this is what we've done in 20 years and I think we've been open for the national garden scheme

00:22for about 15 or 16 years. I'm not quite sure. What is the standout feature of the garden would you say?

00:29I think the pond. I think the pond with the coir carping. I think that's what it is yeah.

00:34And what about this beautiful bridge? Oh right yeah well my husband and my daughter Dlynn they

00:40built it one Sunday afternoon when they were we hadn't got anything to do. How often have you

00:47do you open the garden for the national garden scheme and how long have you been doing it for? I think

00:51maybe 15 or 16 years I'm not quite sure but we open in April for the bulbs for the tulips and then

01:01we open in the middle of July. We only open twice because it's quite a lot of work and I have to rely

01:07on my friends and my sister and that to help with the you know with organizing everything because we

01:11do get a lot of people. We had 100 people come in April. Goodness me. Yeah. How much have you raised

01:17over the years for the charity? We usually make about two thousand pound uh make about a thousand

01:24pound each time we open so I don't know quite a bit. Do you find that people come back year after

01:29year to see what you've done? Yes they come back. We get such a lot that come back. They enjoy coming

01:35because they can relax and it's nice. Some people nod off sometimes in the garden.

01:39How's the year been for you from a growing point of view then? It's been difficult because we've had

01:48no rain. Everything's grown so quickly and it's sort of overtook and the weeds of course they grow

01:54better than the flowers so it's been a bit a bit hectic really. You had to put extra hours into

02:01looking after it because of the lack of rain and watering and things. Yeah I seem to be forever

02:06watering all the time. What's what's best for a garden? Is it too much sun or too much water?

02:12A little of each isn't it? A little of each. Yeah. Yeah. Things have really grown this year. They've

02:17really like we're all right with the geraniums because they like the sun. I mean they grow in

02:21Spain where there's not no rain. In fact I think I'll get more. I always keep the geraniums because

02:27now we haven't got any children I use the upstairs in winter to put the geraniums in. So I use that

02:33to the geraniums upstairs.