Scotland’s Garden Scheme
What a fantastic day we had on Sunday! The promised rain held off and we had a steady stream of people wandering around town looking lost and having fun. The trail was quite spread out this year but there were plenty of parking areas marked out and lots of people took advantage of that. A big ‘thank you’ to Pearsons for allowing us to use the staff car park all afternoon – that was a great help. We’ve added a selection of pictures from the 12 gardens visited – all very different and all truly lovely. In the end we made just over £1000 which is a fantastic amount. 40% of this figure goes to Scotland’s Gardens Scheme nominated charities and 60% goes to our two charities. This year we chose Duns Community Nursery and our local Riding for Disabled Association based near Auchincrow. Two wonderful organisations doing such great work so thank you all who attended and bought tickets, I know the two charities are very grateful. We were also very honoured to have our own TV celebrity from Beechgrove Garden, George Anderson, visit a good number of gardens, and I know he and his wife had a lovely afternoon – because I asked him!
Huge ‘thank you’ to all our volunteers and, of course, to the owners who opened their gardens to allow total strangers access to what is normally their own area of escape from the world.
