Amazing Views From A Three-Tiered Garden In Scotland 😊

Hi everyone it's Jeanette here from Enthusiastic Gardener. I am at a secret location which is actually my school and school's closed at the moment but I'm in today and I just thought let's go out by the beautiful pond because as you know I won't be here for very much longer so I need to appreciate the lovely surroundings that I've had the privilege of working in for the past 13 and a half years. Today I have a very special video for you because we're having a garden tour and the garden tour is by none other than my beautiful sister-in-law Anne-Marie and Anne-Marie and I have known each other for absolutely years. She is Richard's younger sister. Richard has an older brother called Neil and we want Neil to give us a garden tour if you're watching Neil. Neil has just got heavily into gardening and just had his garden design so hopefully he can show us that sometime or at least some pictures. So he's the old brother then Richard has a twin brother called Robert so then there's Richard and Robert and then they the three of them have a younger sister called Anne-Marie and I met Anne-Marie when she was 11 and I was 14 so we've known each other an awful long time, really really long time. We've been very good friends all that time although I have not seen her for a long time because she does not live anywhere near me anymore. She used to be in the army first of all she went in the army and she did loads of exciting things and traveled around. She lived in Germany in Dusseldorf for a couple of years then she was stationed in Ashford in Kent so she lived there and in a beautiful village called Appledore. She had a chocolate box house and she did exciting things for the army and she taught the army cadets on their training and they would do things like they do adventure things and they do abseiling down water towers and they do shooting and she trained them and did all that. Then she decided she would move all the way up to the other end of the whole country which is to Shetland and Shetland Isles if you don't know is the very very northerly island way past Scotland in fact it's so far north that the nearest city is not even in Scotland it's in Bergen Norway which is about 200 miles away and Edinburgh and Glasgow are around 300 miles away so that's how far away she was and her nearest shots were 26 miles away so it's just absolutely so far. We did go and visit though so I'm pleased to say I have been to Shetland. So then she met her husband Alan and they now live in Perthshire on mainland Scotland and they have a beautiful daughter Izzy who is of course my niece and Izzy is absolutely horse and pony mad as is Annemarie they go riding and Izzy is also a member of the Pegasus Faulting Club and that's basically gymnastics on horseback she is absolutely fantastic and they travel the country and they enter competitions and they win and she is amazing but they decided they wanted to move Alan wanted to live in a house that he could walk in the garden all the way around the house so now they live in a tiny little village called Logerate and there are only 95 people in her village and the neighbouring villages which are called Strath Tay and Ballinluig. I'm probably saying completely wrong and it sits on the southern highlands and it has the rivers Tay and the river Tummel running right through it. They wanted to rescue ponies so that's another reason why they moved to this beautiful new house and they now have two ponies and they rent the paddock just by their house and they have a a beautiful pony called Lottie and another little miniature Shetland pony called Mischief. They only moved there in December so they've only had this spring and this summer to do anything. I'll tell you if that was my garden the sky's the limit what you could do in this garden it's absolutely beautiful and the view is breathtaking so let's go over to Annemarie now and have a look at her beautiful garden. So this is a wee tour of our garden. We've been here since December and it was very overgrown when we got here. This is the lower level at the back of the house and we have two more levels which I'll show you later. Now we're just coming around to the front of the house. Do you a long view from here it's an awful lot in the garden that's been planted up but it's just grown so there's so much in it and here we are at the front of the house. I'm just going to spin around so you can see the view from the front of the house and this is our view, pretty special. Okay this is one of our spots first thing and we're admiring the view and now we go around the corner here we've got hazelnut, two hazelnut bushes. I have remembered to take my washing in this time Jeanette and then we go up the steps and my husband has just put down ant powder everywhere which has spoilt the view unfortunately on the floor. So this gets the sun in the morning and it's a bit shadier in the evening and we've just been working on this border here because this is very overgrown but we've got red currants, over the back we've got black currants if you can see there's gooseberries and very poorly raspberries as well which isn't coming along too well. Now I'm not going to go down the other side from here but you can actually get down that side but that's our rubbish end and you won't want to see that. So we'll just head back down to the front go around the other side again. We are heading back around the front to look at the view because it is good. This bed we did was extremely overgrown so we've put some new ones in there and taken some old ones out and we've also got raspberries right at them, not raspberries sorry, we got gooseberries right at the back which are really ripe and sweet and red. You can see them there. So let's head up to the top getting a sense of the height now. This is the first level and this is my morning coffee spot so you get an even better view. And now we can go up the top level see if we can get a bird of prey in. I think we'll just finish up here with a quick look at the lovely lavender. Isn't that just fabulous? I could not believe the gorgeous view and Anne-Marie has always liked the country life and that sort of thing. So she's happy and Izzy's happy she can deal with her ponies and Alan's happy he can walk all the way around the garden. So everyone is happy and I hope that we can go and visit Richard and I soon. That would be lovely. So anyway I hope you enjoyed that video. I think it's a gorgeous gorgeous garden and thank you for watching. I'm Jeanette, I am The Enthusiastic Gardener. Take care and I will see you again soon. Thanks for watching. Bye.