Many people, including the Inverewe gardener, have commented on the wonderful and colourful display at the front of Ian Macleod’s home in Mossford, Lochluichart. Some wondered if the dahlias were lifted each autumn and replanted the following year.
“Yes, certainly,” he said emphatically, when I enquired, “there’s such a lot of work in the lifting and putting out” and, he added “all the plants were staked and tied in against the wind.”
Nowadays, Ian is feeling he may not do as much next year, and is not sure what he will manage.
The purple ones, noticed particularly by the Inverewe gardener, were new this year, but we will miss them ALL if they don’t appear again.
Ian took over the garden from his Father who was head gardener for all the, then, North of Scotland Electricity Board stations. These are mostly just grassed over now.
Coaches stop to admire the Mossford garden “but” says Ian modestly “that was in my Father’s day.”
“Not so!” say others who know it still happens. The tradition has certainly grown through. So “Thank you!” to Ian, for over twenty years of beautifully displayed flowers.
Pam Morrison
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