0:00:04 > 0:00:07Britain has some of the finest gardens anywhere in the world.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11For me, it's about getting in amongst the wonderful plants that
0:00:11 > 0:00:12flourish in this country,
0:00:12 > 0:00:15and sharing the passion of the people who tend them.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20However, there's another way to enjoy a garden...
0:00:24 > 0:00:27..and that's to get up above it.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33I love ballooning because you get to see the world below
0:00:33 > 0:00:35in a whole new light.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39From up here, you get a real sense of how the garden sits
0:00:39 > 0:00:44in the landscape, how the terrain and the climate have shaped it.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49And I want you to share that experience with me.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16We are in Scotland, which makes up one third of the British Isles.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21Its scenery is hugely varied, from lowland rippling hills
0:01:21 > 0:01:24to vast rugged mountains.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29From large cities to uninhabited landscapes.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Today, we are exploring the Border country around the great city
0:01:33 > 0:01:38of Edinburgh and there's also some rather wonderful gardens down there.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51This is the Borders, a land that has been contested for centuries.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Steeped in history and home to the famous author,
0:01:54 > 0:01:58Sir Walter Scott, The Wizard of the North.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01A country of hills and water.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Oh, it's just like conducting. It's like music!
0:02:07 > 0:02:11A nation bursting with enthusiasm.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13The first time you got carrots was, like,
0:02:13 > 0:02:17"Oh, my God! We've got carrots! This is the most exciting thing ever."
0:02:18 > 0:02:22And a landscape where the unusual takes pride of place.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25- What is a weed?- Well, absolutely.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27It's just a wild flower waiting to be named.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35South of Edinburgh and north of Hadrian's Wall
0:02:35 > 0:02:37are the Border counties of Scotland.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40This is Rob Roy country.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Desolate landscapes, wild hillsides, and heather.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52And that's precisely what I can see down there.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Little has changed in this remote area of Scotland
0:02:54 > 0:02:57since Sir Walter Scott's day.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00And it's his home and garden that I'm visiting today.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12From up here, you can see how the house, built in the Baronial
0:03:12 > 0:03:1519th century style, sits in the landscape.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Surrounding the house are some marvellous walled gardens,
0:03:19 > 0:03:21and integral to the estate,
0:03:21 > 0:03:25the River Tweed meanders through the garden landscape,
0:03:25 > 0:03:29a truly magnificent sight, and I just can't wait to get down there.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37For me, Scotland has always been about romantic castles,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39ice-clear rivers and burns.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43A place where people take pride in their national heroes.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48And it's all because of 19th century classic author Sir Walter Scott
0:03:48 > 0:03:51and his idyllic castle and estate.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00Abbotsford, a home, garden, and landscape that reflects
0:04:00 > 0:04:06the integrity, the passion, and wisdom of a man that enjoyed life.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09If he was alive today, he would be proud
0:04:09 > 0:04:13of what has been achieved to keep all of this alive.
0:04:16 > 0:04:21Abbotsford, in the Scottish Borders, is the early 19th century home
0:04:21 > 0:04:25of Scotland's most prolific author, Sir Walter Scott.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28It was once a 1,400 acre estate,
0:04:28 > 0:04:32with a fairy-tale castle, turrets and all, at its heart.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35But today, it's owned by the Abbotsford Trust,
0:04:35 > 0:04:38a charity established to preserve Scott's home for eternity.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Pippa Coles manages the garden
0:04:44 > 0:04:47and she's bursting with information about its history.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51- Hi, Pippa. How are you?- Hello, Christine. I'm fine. How are you?
0:04:51 > 0:04:53I'm fine. What are you doing down here?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56I'm just turning up a few things that have flopped over.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00The victims of rain, wind, and old age, I think.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03What challenges do you actually face carrying out all
0:05:03 > 0:05:05the work that is necessary?
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Well, we have many, many challenges.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13One is the historic fabric which has to be our first port of call.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15So, one is the beautiful walls,
0:05:15 > 0:05:18the beautiful buildings that make up the garden, the turrets...
0:05:18 > 0:05:21These things are unique to Scott and unique to Abbotsford.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25Secondly, we have the challenge of running this kitchen/garden here
0:05:25 > 0:05:29as a kitchen/garden which is how Scott would have run it.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31What a magnificent setting.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35It is absolutely stunning, and of course, Scott knew it was stunning.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39It's not just the physical setting that interested Scott, but
0:05:39 > 0:05:43it's the archaeology of the site and the stories attached to the site.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46I mean, Scott was a storyteller through and through.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49That's what he sought to do at Abbotsford
0:05:49 > 0:05:52and across the estate at Abbotsford, is tell stories.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56Is there something particularly Scottish about these gardens?
0:05:56 > 0:06:01Well, Sir Walter Scott, in some ways, invented Scottishness.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05The architecture of the house, which is called Scottish Baronial,
0:06:05 > 0:06:07was later followed in Victorian times.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11Balmoral Castle was designed along the lines of Abbotsford.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12So in some ways,
0:06:12 > 0:06:15it's the beginning of a Victorian notion of Scottishness.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19Sir Walter Scott's fame
0:06:19 > 0:06:23and early fortune were built on his writing career.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26His famous titles delved back into Scottish history,
0:06:26 > 0:06:31romanticising the turbulent past and creating the notion of Scotland
0:06:31 > 0:06:34that Queen Victoria later turned into high fashion.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Scott was one of the last great contributors to the period now
0:06:39 > 0:06:41known as the Scottish Enlightenment,
0:06:41 > 0:06:46which had seen 18th century Scotland become a hotbed of genius.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50It was a country bursting with political and social thinkers,
0:06:50 > 0:06:55economists, architects, and artists, who still influence the world today.
0:06:56 > 0:07:01Scott's contribution was romantic Scotland, and the sale of his books
0:07:01 > 0:07:02funded his purchase of Abbotsford
0:07:02 > 0:07:05and all his gardening innovations here.
0:07:05 > 0:07:10Do these gardens really reflect what Walter Scott was about?
0:07:10 > 0:07:15I think every inch of Abbotsford is exactly what Scott is about.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19He bought Abbotsford in 1811 and in his library he's got
0:07:19 > 0:07:21a series of books all about gardens and landscapes.
0:07:21 > 0:07:26He was genning up on what he was going to do, very much
0:07:26 > 0:07:30using the best of the day, but then as always for Scott,
0:07:30 > 0:07:33jumping sideways, diving back into the past
0:07:33 > 0:07:36and trying to draw these historical associations.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41He worked incredibly hard to achieve what
0:07:41 > 0:07:44he wanted to achieve, and he saw it as a legacy.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47He saw it as something that was going to be passed on, as he did his books.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Scott lived at Abbotsford with his family for 15 years,
0:07:53 > 0:07:55before his wife died.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59In the same year, his fortune was wiped out by a financial crash.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Having borrowed against royalties for books yet to be written,
0:08:02 > 0:08:04he was made bankrupt.
0:08:06 > 0:08:11Scott's life potentially could have crumbled into an absolute
0:08:11 > 0:08:14disaster, but he picked himself up
0:08:14 > 0:08:17- and said that he was going to write himself out of the debt.- Blimey.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20He had an extraordinary series of daily tasks
0:08:20 > 0:08:24and his day began at 6.00 and finished at 10.00,
0:08:24 > 0:08:26and he allotted time for correspondence,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29time for breakfast, very big breakfast.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31Time for writing,
0:08:31 > 0:08:34and then in the afternoons, he very often came out into the gardens
0:08:34 > 0:08:39or went out into the estate and physically involved himself in both.
0:08:41 > 0:08:46He saw this as part of his own psychological well-being.
0:08:46 > 0:08:51He spoke in a very modern way about how you could temper your own
0:08:51 > 0:08:55fortunes through nature as a kind of benign nurse
0:08:55 > 0:08:58and physical activity, and good living.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06The fruits of Scott's active imagination are the yairds -
0:09:06 > 0:09:08individual walled kitchen
0:09:08 > 0:09:12and flower gardens situated unusually close to the grand house.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17He wanted to create picturesque scenes for the family and guests,
0:09:17 > 0:09:22designing enticing views from one walled garden to the next.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25The South Court immediately in front of the house was laid to lawn
0:09:25 > 0:09:27with shrubbery and flower beds.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Adjacent to it is the sunken Morris Garden,
0:09:32 > 0:09:34once known as the East Court.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38The statue is a character from Rob Roy - Morris the exciseman.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43And on the outside is the kitchen garden,
0:09:43 > 0:09:45reached by a few steps through a stone archway.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Since Scott's death in 1832,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Abbotsford has been home to his descendants.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06In the 1950s, Scott's eldest remaining
0:10:06 > 0:10:09great-great-great granddaughter, Patricia Maxwell-Scott,
0:10:09 > 0:10:10inherited the house.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14She lived at Abbotsford with her sister, Dame Jean, along with
0:10:14 > 0:10:18several loyal family servants to care for them and the estate.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24The last remaining member of their staff is Jeanette McWhinnie,
0:10:24 > 0:10:28who comes from a long line of Abbotsford retainers.
0:10:29 > 0:10:35I came to work at Abbotsford after having been volunteered by my mother.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38They were in desperate need for someone to help out
0:10:38 > 0:10:42in the tea room for two weeks, it was supposed to be.
0:10:42 > 0:10:48Eventually, it ended up I worked at Abbotsford the next 37 years.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52I've always liked flowers and I wouldn't say...
0:10:52 > 0:10:56I'm not an expert flower arranger by any manner of means,
0:10:56 > 0:10:57but I just like...
0:10:58 > 0:11:00..putting flowers in vases, basically.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05I'm sure there's more to it than that!
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Jeanette, you've worked here for a very long time,
0:11:12 > 0:11:16but over that period, what sort of work did you do?
0:11:16 > 0:11:20A little bit of everything. I came to work in the tea room originally.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23That lasted about five years, I think.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Then, I went to work in the gift shop.
0:11:26 > 0:11:31I did guided tours and went to work in the office, and...
0:11:31 > 0:11:37- 37 years later I was still here and retired in June.- 37 years.- Yes.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40So what made it so special for you?
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Just like a second home. I just love the place. I love the people.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47I loved everything about Abbotsford.
0:11:47 > 0:11:52Because I knew the ladies, prior to coming to work here, as well.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54- So did you speak to the people in the house?- Oh, yes.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58Mrs Patricia Maxwell-Scott and Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott
0:11:58 > 0:12:02were friends of my mother's anyways, so I had known them all my life.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Wow, and what sort of a relationship did you have with them?
0:12:06 > 0:12:11- Mother and daughter.- Really?- Aunt. Whatever you would like to call it.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Dame Jean was the gardener. She loved her garden.
0:12:14 > 0:12:19She'd often be found on her hands and knees in the garden, and visitors
0:12:19 > 0:12:25didn't realise that she was one of the ladies of the house, basically.
0:12:25 > 0:12:31Just really natural and I used to come out and chat with them, etc.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35Then, following Dame Jean's death, I sort of took over arranging
0:12:35 > 0:12:39the flowers in the house, just to continue the tradition that she had.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49Dame Jean had a personal flower trug for collecting blooms in the garden.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51It's been lost in recent years,
0:12:51 > 0:12:54but I think I know someone who would love one of her own!
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Beyond the walls of Abbotsford garden are the acres
0:13:02 > 0:13:06of countryside that Scott managed with his team of groundsmen.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08It was here that Scott experimented with the latest
0:13:08 > 0:13:10land management techniques.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Phil Munro is the current estate ranger.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Scott trialled various forestry techniques at Abbotsford,
0:13:20 > 0:13:23from planting and pruning to thinning woodlands and he published
0:13:23 > 0:13:26all of these in a journal he kept called Sylva Abbotsfordienses.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29He was very hands on with forestry.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32He was out there helping his estate factotum, Tom Pardy,
0:13:32 > 0:13:33and his labourers.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35He was said to be a very powerful wielder of the axe
0:13:35 > 0:13:38and he would compete with his men to see who could fell a tree
0:13:38 > 0:13:40with the fewest blows, and quite often won.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46Scott encouraged open access to his grounds.
0:13:46 > 0:13:47He was quite a happy for people to come
0:13:47 > 0:13:49and enjoy the land at Abbotsford.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52He also talked about the fact that people respected the grounds
0:13:52 > 0:13:54and the structures that were on it.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57There was never any damage done to anything on the estate
0:13:57 > 0:13:59for the free access that he provided.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05Today, Abbotsford is still open to the public, and Phil's role
0:14:05 > 0:14:08now includes more visitor work than the job did in Scott's time.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Historically, the work of a forester is much about protecting
0:14:14 > 0:14:16the woodlands from poachers
0:14:16 > 0:14:19and from thieves as much as it was harvesting the timber.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Today, it's a bit more about encouraging people to come
0:14:22 > 0:14:23and enjoy woodlands,
0:14:23 > 0:14:28and also to enhance and protect the biodiversity that's already here.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31We are looking to harvest some of these oak saplings.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35We have an area in a different woodlands where there are very
0:14:35 > 0:14:39little oak regeneration so we want to take these little saplings out,
0:14:39 > 0:14:42pop them out, and let them mature a bit to get them a bit stronger
0:14:42 > 0:14:45and then we will plant them out in the other woodland.
0:14:48 > 0:14:53The English oak is prized for its strength, durability, and longevity.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57From acorn to sapling can take anywhere between 6 to 18 months,
0:14:57 > 0:15:01with many specimens living for hundreds of years.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Native to most of Europe and the near East, oaks have supplied
0:15:04 > 0:15:08shipwrights and builders with the stuff of their trade for centuries.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13Nowadays, oaks are not only valuable for their wood.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16They're important harbours for insects, and a diverse
0:15:16 > 0:15:19range of wildlife depends on them for their habitat and food.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24They're a sustainable resource, but when they take so long to grow,
0:15:24 > 0:15:29it's reassuring to see them managed so carefully on Scott's estate.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32I think he'd be pleased to see some of his old friends
0:15:32 > 0:15:33still growing here.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37What Scott created here is really what makes this unique.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41The landscape that Scott built, basically we want to ensure
0:15:41 > 0:15:44that that is here for future generations to enjoy.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49Today, Scott's forest stretch right down to the water,
0:15:49 > 0:15:52where there's something I've always wanted to try my hand at.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58- Look, can I come and have a go, please?- Yes.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01I'll just go and give you a hand in the water.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03'Fly fishing on the River Tweed!'
0:16:03 > 0:16:06What an amazing setting.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08- Give me your hand, fair maiden. - Thank you.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10HE LAUGHS
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Well, hey, this is... I've never done this.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16- I've never, ever even had a rod in my hand.- Have you not?- No.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Nigel Fell is the estate's fishing ghillie.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24He's here to help hopeless novices like me, and experienced
0:16:24 > 0:16:27fishermen alike, to have a great day messing about in the river.
0:16:29 > 0:16:34- Do you want to have a go at the casting?- Oh, yes!- Right.- Absolutely.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37- Now, that fly... That's very colourful.- Yeah.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Does it make a difference?
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45- I mean, I've caught salmon on lots of different colour flies.- Right.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47It's a case of just on keep on fishing away
0:16:47 > 0:16:49and hopefully something happens, yeah?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51You see, I thought it would be about that big.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54No, these are salmon flies. Little tiny flies - that's for trout.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56- These are for salmon and sea trout.- Right.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00A bit later on in the season, we will even go bigger.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02If you want to have a cast we'll get the line out
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- and I'll show you what you're supposed to be doing.- Right.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09- So let's just try it.- Right. - There... There...
0:17:11 > 0:17:14- And hit it. See?- Oh, it's just like conducting!- That's right.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- It's like music.- Do you think you can manage yourself with this one?
0:17:17 > 0:17:19I'm going to have a bash if you don't mind.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Don't be too rushy about it, just everything very easy, yeah?
0:17:22 > 0:17:28Right, round, back round, and hit it. That's it, look at that!
0:17:28 > 0:17:31- You've been doing it for years. - Eh! No. Come on!
0:17:31 > 0:17:35SHE HUMS The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II
0:17:40 > 0:17:46- Hey... That's magic! - Yep. That's it, lovely.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48You don't get it better than that.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51- Well, it would be better if you caught a fish.- I was going to say...
0:17:51 > 0:17:55How does this vary from what Scott did?
0:17:55 > 0:17:59Did Scott come out and do this? I mean, the lines would have...
0:17:59 > 0:18:03Scott would have in the latter years of his life,
0:18:03 > 0:18:06he would have fished with what they call an old greenheart rod,
0:18:06 > 0:18:09but his favourite pastime was what they used to call
0:18:09 > 0:18:10'burning the water.'
0:18:10 > 0:18:14- Hm.- Some people used to wade down the edge with a big flaming
0:18:14 > 0:18:16torch on a stick.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Other ones used to have a boat with a big brazier
0:18:18 > 0:18:21in the back of it so it would light up the water
0:18:21 > 0:18:24and they would have a big fork called a listor,
0:18:24 > 0:18:26and when the fish came in toward the light,
0:18:26 > 0:18:28he would just stab at the fish.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31- Sort of like spear fishing.- That's exactly right, like spear fishing.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33- Goodness.- But then, he would pull it out.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35And that was one of Scott's favourite pastimes.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38It's nowhere near as elegant as this... Swish!
0:18:38 > 0:18:40No, this is modernisation, isn't it?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43The ghillie's craft goes back over 500 years,
0:18:43 > 0:18:47to when the produce from the estate went straight to the kitchen.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52In those early days when you caught a salmon, they killed it to eat.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56- Right, and what happens these days? - Well, there's more conservation now.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Most of the salmon that are caught
0:18:58 > 0:19:00are released back into the water so they can breed
0:19:00 > 0:19:03and hopefully we'll get more salmon coming back
0:19:03 > 0:19:05in a few years' time, yeah?
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Today, the ghillie's job is to manage the river,
0:19:09 > 0:19:11keeping it healthy and profitable.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16- This is how you earn your bread. - This is my full-time job, yeah.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19SHE LAUGHS
0:19:19 > 0:19:21What I'm supposed to do is go out in the morning in greet
0:19:21 > 0:19:23the fisherman that come in.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27The knowledge I've accumulated over the years I've been on this beat,
0:19:27 > 0:19:30I show them roughly where I think the fish are going to be.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34- But you are surrounded by this all day?- That's why I do it.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Cos I could never sit in an office and work.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38I've always been outside all my life.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41Do you know, it's almost as good as gardening.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43No, it's better than gardening.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58In the late 17th century, England had two universities.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Scotland had five and Edinburgh, with its medical school
0:20:01 > 0:20:05and university, had become the seat of the Scottish Enlightenment.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08It was a capital packed with great thinkers
0:20:08 > 0:20:11and some rather avant-garde gardeners.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14The second oldest physic garden in Britain,
0:20:14 > 0:20:17the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh,
0:20:17 > 0:20:20is also one of the world's most important collection of plants.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Ian Edwards is the head of exhibitions and events.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29The Royal Botanic Garden is one of the world's great botanic gardens.
0:20:29 > 0:20:34It's up there in the top three or four botanic gardens worldwide.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38Our main role is to study plants, so currently we are looking
0:20:38 > 0:20:41at plants in about 40 different countries around the world.
0:20:43 > 0:20:48The original garden, founded in 1670 in the grounds of Holyrood Abbey,
0:20:48 > 0:20:51was no bigger than a tennis court and was established to educate
0:20:51 > 0:20:55apothecaries against the dangers of quack medicines.
0:20:56 > 0:21:01Two Edinburgh doctors, Dr Sibbald and Dr Andrew Balfour,
0:21:01 > 0:21:03set up the first physic garden,
0:21:03 > 0:21:07and the idea was this plot would enable the apothecaries to come
0:21:07 > 0:21:10along, study the plants that they were using in their medicines,
0:21:10 > 0:21:14and make sure they got the right ones and didn't misidentify them.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18So, that idea of identifying plants for educational purposes
0:21:18 > 0:21:20was there right at the very beginning.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25Of course, the garden has evolved a lot since then.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29During the 19th century, it was very much part of the age
0:21:29 > 0:21:33of discovery when Britain was developing colonies overseas,
0:21:33 > 0:21:38and we supplied plants for many of the first botanic gardens
0:21:38 > 0:21:44and plantations and other growing areas all the way around the world.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46As the British Empire grew,
0:21:46 > 0:21:51unidentified species arrived in the UK from newly explored territories.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Botanic gardens like Edinburgh were hothouses of activity,
0:21:55 > 0:21:58as scientists described each new specimen, attaching to them
0:21:58 > 0:22:02a unique Latin names honouring the explorers who found them.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Eventually, the collection outgrew its original site.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11It's the very nature of gardens that they evolve all the time.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13So, one thing is that they grow bigger.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16The collections themselves expand.
0:22:16 > 0:22:21So this garden has moved many times in the last three centuries.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Six years after setting up in 1670 beside Holyrood Abbey,
0:22:26 > 0:22:30the Royal Botanic Gardens moved to what is now the famous
0:22:30 > 0:22:34train station named after Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40And then it moved again in the 19th century,
0:22:40 > 0:22:45growing to 70 acres of gardens in the centre of the Victorian city.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48And it has continued to grow ever since.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Now, altogether there are four Royal Botanic Gardens in Scotland.
0:22:52 > 0:22:57They're all working together to produce the plant collection
0:22:57 > 0:23:00that can be studied here by the scientists.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04And the work of the original plant collectors continues, too.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Principally, we are going out, we are collecting plants,
0:23:07 > 0:23:10we are bringing them back here either as dried specimens
0:23:10 > 0:23:13or for cultivation, and then we study them
0:23:13 > 0:23:15and compare them to plants we've collected in the past
0:23:15 > 0:23:18and, of course, continually looking for new species.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21I think most people are quite surprised how many new
0:23:21 > 0:23:24species there are still to be discovered.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28So, on average, probably every week we are discovering a new
0:23:28 > 0:23:30species of land from somewhere in the world.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33These plants, when we get them here,
0:23:33 > 0:23:36are made up into two main collections -
0:23:36 > 0:23:38the dried plant collection,
0:23:38 > 0:23:40the huge collection of plans which
0:23:40 > 0:23:43now extends over to 3 million specimens,
0:23:43 > 0:23:46and the collection you see around you here which is living plants.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50Here, we've got about 16,000 species.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54To put it in some kind of context, that's about 7% of all
0:23:54 > 0:23:57the plants in the whole world in cultivation here.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02The Royal Botanic Gardens were innovative in their day,
0:24:02 > 0:24:06and the novel idea of putting unused land to good use continues.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Across the city, in the Fountainbridge area, a new type of
0:24:13 > 0:24:18gardening has taken root - one that can up sticks at a moment's notice.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23The patch of land known as the Grove used to be a brewery,
0:24:23 > 0:24:25but the land was sold for redevelopment
0:24:25 > 0:24:27and the brewery demolished.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32Planning permission can take an age and the land stood empty
0:24:32 > 0:24:34while everyone waited.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37A group of gardening locals approached the developer with
0:24:37 > 0:24:41the idea that they use the land as a community garden in the meantime.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45The idea worked for both parties.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49This idea has now expanded to two gardens.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53One of the pioneering gardeners who's been in it from the start
0:24:53 > 0:24:55is Stan Reeves.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58The criteria for this garden is that it must be instantly mobile.
0:24:58 > 0:25:04So, we've got mobile fences, mobile planters, and mobile sheds.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07The mobile gardens are built from pallets that can be picked up
0:25:07 > 0:25:10by forklift and moved at any time.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14We started off with 26 people,
0:25:14 > 0:25:19but now we've got, I think, 80 gardeners in this garden
0:25:19 > 0:25:22and at least that number in the other garden,
0:25:22 > 0:25:26so we probably got in the region of about 170 gardeners.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Myself, I come here with my grandchildren.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34It's a great place for kids.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Kids come, even if you've only got a small plot.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40In fact, even better if you've got a small plot because the children,
0:25:40 > 0:25:44because it's at waist height, the children can get involved in it.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46The children can see everything that's going on
0:25:46 > 0:25:49so it's particularly good for families.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50We have a lot of families using this.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55I help by picking out the weeds.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00One of the founder members, who's keen to promote the Grove's
0:26:00 > 0:26:04organic principles to regenerate the soil, is Ruby.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08What we are trying to do is bring greenery into the heart
0:26:08 > 0:26:13of the city centre, and the very first up is growing your own soil.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17So we do that through wormeries and through composting.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19To do this as a community, it takes a while,
0:26:19 > 0:26:23but we are building up the awareness and the skills,
0:26:23 > 0:26:28and the love of soil which is central to any garden.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31In a part of Edinburgh where gardens are rare,
0:26:31 > 0:26:33the Grove welcomes everyone.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37And these small box gardens are perfect for beginners, like Annie.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40I wanted to learn more about gardening within a community,
0:26:40 > 0:26:43so I wasn't just doing it on my own.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46It's also just a beautiful place to come after work
0:26:46 > 0:26:50just for ten minutes. It just brings you back down to earth.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53I spend a lot of time here meeting other people as well,
0:26:53 > 0:26:57people that maybe I would not have met without the garden being here.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Places like the Grove bring together people who would otherwise
0:27:00 > 0:27:03just nod a 'good morning' to their neighbours on the stairs
0:27:03 > 0:27:07before going off to work or, like Umair, heading to school.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Well, I'm picking away all the salad leaves
0:27:09 > 0:27:14so we can use it later on for, like, lunch time, possibly for sandwiches.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17So hopefully they taste nice.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21I've planted, like, coriander and lettuce and everything,
0:27:21 > 0:27:23so I think it's quite a good thing.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27- We've got some radish, mustard here...- Indian radishes, mustard.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29And jute.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31We've got some lettuce leaves over there
0:27:31 > 0:27:33and some spinach leaves over there.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36It gives you pleasure using the soil and the sand.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38It's, like, a nice feeling as well.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42When you're cooking it in your food, it looks lovely.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45You're proud that you grew it.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58It's really exciting cos we're not gardeners or growers of things
0:27:58 > 0:28:01normally, so this is, like, our first experience doing it.
0:28:01 > 0:28:06The first time we got carrots was like, "Oh, my God! We've got carrots!
0:28:06 > 0:28:08"This is the most exciting thing ever."
0:28:08 > 0:28:10You go home and you make soup from it.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13It's, like, the process of doing it, seeing it from a tiny seed.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16We started growing the tiny seeds in our house and then brought them
0:28:16 > 0:28:19through to the garden itself and put them in.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22The experience of watching something grow is really exciting.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24I didn't think I would be that excited about it
0:28:24 > 0:28:27but I was like, "No, this is really exciting."
0:28:27 > 0:28:29With shipping containers as a tool shed
0:28:29 > 0:28:33and somewhere to make a brew, this has to be a brilliant solution.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36The locals have gained a garden, the developers have engaged with
0:28:36 > 0:28:39the community, and a relationship has been built
0:28:39 > 0:28:41based on mutual trust.
0:28:41 > 0:28:45It's, like, very organic in itself. The actual space is really organic.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48It's really nice to see how things move around
0:28:48 > 0:28:49and different boxes move.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52The thing about it is that you don't know what's going to happen
0:28:52 > 0:28:55cos you don't know when they're going to develop it,
0:28:55 > 0:28:58so you're just doing what you can. It's kind of living in the moment.
0:29:01 > 0:29:05It's a cracking idea which I hope catches on.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15Sir Walter Scott is honoured by the Scott Memorial
0:29:15 > 0:29:17in the centre of Edinburgh.
0:29:17 > 0:29:21The architecture of Scottish Enlightenment litters the capital.
0:29:21 > 0:29:24It's a movement of great thinkers, artists, and writers
0:29:24 > 0:29:27that have never really run out of steam.
0:29:34 > 0:29:3740 miles west of Abbotsford is a very beautiful garden,
0:29:37 > 0:29:39Little Sparta.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Created by another Scottish writer, Ian Hamilton Finlay.
0:29:42 > 0:29:48It's seven acres divided up into ten tiny areas of romance.
0:29:48 > 0:29:52It was created not as a garden, but a piece of art.
0:29:52 > 0:29:56The poet integral to a very beautiful little space.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09Little Sparta, in the Pentland Hills, was home to 20th century
0:30:09 > 0:30:14Scottish poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay and his wife Sue.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16They spent 25 years here together,
0:30:16 > 0:30:18building a garden that is a work of art.
0:30:20 > 0:30:21Today, the seven acre site is owned
0:30:21 > 0:30:25and managed by the Little Sparta Trust, established on Ian's
0:30:25 > 0:30:30death in 2006 to preserve his vision of art and the landscape.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35The Trust's head gardener and curator is George Gilliland,
0:30:35 > 0:30:38and he's got quite a job on his hands,
0:30:38 > 0:30:41managing what many of us might consider to be a weed.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45- Hi, George.- Hello, Christine. How are you doing?
0:30:45 > 0:30:48- What are you doing here? - This is a rosebay willowherb.
0:30:48 > 0:30:53It's every other gardeners' enemy, but we quite happily let grow here
0:30:53 > 0:30:58because it becomes part of the context of what this garden is.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01It's an artist's garden rather than strictly speaking
0:31:01 > 0:31:04- a horticulturalist's garden.- Right.
0:31:04 > 0:31:08So while we may control weeds in certain areas,
0:31:08 > 0:31:12we also use them to our advantage because they are part
0:31:12 > 0:31:18of the wildness that surrounds it, so we just let it in and embrace it.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20Ian Hamilton Finlay, he was the artist here,
0:31:20 > 0:31:23called this his 'obstreperous companion.'
0:31:23 > 0:31:26- But you see, what is a weed? - Well, absolutely.
0:31:26 > 0:31:28It's just a wild flower waiting to be named, you know?
0:31:28 > 0:31:31And also, a plant where it's not wanted.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34This is a wild flower that is very elegant,
0:31:34 > 0:31:38exquisitely architectural, and people say it's a weed.
0:31:38 > 0:31:43But here, uniting the landscape with a garden,
0:31:43 > 0:31:46with such beauty and colour.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50Having said that, rosebay willowherb will take over
0:31:50 > 0:31:52if you allow it to seed.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56So what was Finlay's vision for the garden?
0:31:56 > 0:32:02Really, it was to create an Arcadian idyll within his lifetime.
0:32:02 > 0:32:06He started off as a poet.
0:32:06 > 0:32:10His use of language you can see everywhere in the garden.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12It's a garden that you have to read,
0:32:12 > 0:32:15and I think that's one of the key ways to understanding it.
0:32:15 > 0:32:20Throughout the gardens, you will see references to the classical world,
0:32:20 > 0:32:25to Greece and Rome, to temples, columns, and things like this.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27Also, references to the classical poets.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30There are many, many layers of influence.
0:32:30 > 0:32:34The garden developed over a period of 40 years,
0:32:34 > 0:32:38so it gradually grew out and out and out.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42His ideas and expressions of how he wanted our works
0:32:42 > 0:32:44to sit in the landscape, for instance,
0:32:44 > 0:32:46became influenced by the shape of the
0:32:46 > 0:32:50landscape as well as what he wanted to express within the artwork itself.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58From a young age,
0:32:58 > 0:33:00Ian Hamilton Finlay leaned towards poetry and art.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03His early written works were broadcast on the BBC,
0:33:03 > 0:33:06and he published several anthologies of poetry
0:33:06 > 0:33:09before he hit on the concept of concrete poetry
0:33:09 > 0:33:12where the layout of the words was part of the poem.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15The next step was carving actual words into stone,
0:33:15 > 0:33:17so as making them concrete forever.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Poems as objects,
0:33:22 > 0:33:25and objects as poems are strewn through this garden making
0:33:25 > 0:33:28the entire seven acres an enormous work of art.
0:33:30 > 0:33:35The influences in Little Sparta are classical Greece, love, and the sea.
0:33:35 > 0:33:39This is a garden to be interpreted and enjoyed for its artwork,
0:33:39 > 0:33:41rather than the horticultural design.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51How do you see your role here?
0:33:51 > 0:33:53It's very much conservation -
0:33:53 > 0:33:57to keep the garden as Finlay intended it to be seen.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00He completed the vision of how he wanted to be,
0:34:00 > 0:34:05so it's my job now to maintain that, where other gardeners would baulk
0:34:05 > 0:34:09at certain of my practices, they are very purposeful.
0:34:09 > 0:34:15- I allow weeds to grow. - Wild flowers.- Ah, wild flowers.
0:34:15 > 0:34:19And to understand what those do in a particular space,
0:34:19 > 0:34:24how they relate to the artworks that sit behind them.
0:34:24 > 0:34:28- And indeed, a lot of the planting is to do with camouflage.- Right.
0:34:28 > 0:34:33The plants are used as camouflage behind artworks, hiding artworks,
0:34:33 > 0:34:35or referencing them.
0:34:35 > 0:34:38You'll see a group of silhouettes of battleships from
0:34:38 > 0:34:41the Second World war which were given flower names.
0:34:41 > 0:34:45Finlay re-camouflages those by making the names into anagrams.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47SHE LAUGHS
0:34:47 > 0:34:49- So, it's quite a subtle idea.- Yeah.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52But I think the garden is very rewarding intellectually,
0:34:52 > 0:34:54but it's also quite charming.
0:34:54 > 0:34:59I find that the more time I spend in it, the more rewarding it becomes.
0:35:03 > 0:35:07In 2004, two years before Ian Hamilton Finlay's death,
0:35:07 > 0:35:11Little Sparta was voted Scotland's most important work of art.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16This confirmed Finlay an artist, not a plantsman.
0:35:16 > 0:35:18And this is not a garden for visitors
0:35:18 > 0:35:22wanting to pinch a few seed heads for their own patch.
0:35:22 > 0:35:25If they do, they'll be inundated with weeds.
0:35:28 > 0:35:30Nick-named fireweed and bombweed
0:35:30 > 0:35:33for its tendency to germinate in scorched earth,
0:35:33 > 0:35:36rosebay willowherb was sometimes eaten as a vegetable in the past.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40But today, most people see it as an invasive weed.
0:35:41 > 0:35:44It's a tall plant with willow-like leaves,
0:35:44 > 0:35:47which bursts into pink flowers in mid-summer and autumn.
0:35:49 > 0:35:53If you plant it intentionally, regular dead-heading is a must,
0:35:53 > 0:35:54otherwise the seeds will
0:35:54 > 0:35:57float all over your garden, choking everything else.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04But here at Little Sparta, rosebay willowherb is a valued flower.
0:36:04 > 0:36:08Ian Hamilton Finlay was a man after my own heart.
0:36:08 > 0:36:12Wherever you be, let the weeds go free.
0:36:12 > 0:36:16I suppose whether you appreciate it depends on your perspective.
0:36:16 > 0:36:20Do you think gardeners that visit understand this garden?
0:36:20 > 0:36:22I hope so.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25This is a place that embraces the history of landscape
0:36:25 > 0:36:31and garden design, and uses that to express a particular ideal or
0:36:31 > 0:36:33a particular vision of the world.
0:36:33 > 0:36:37I think Finlay stood and stared an awful lot.
0:36:37 > 0:36:40He probably did, but I'm afraid I can't do that.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43- Shall we get on with it?- Absolutely.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52From up here, you really appreciate the solitude of Little Sparta,
0:36:52 > 0:36:55a garden as work of art,
0:36:55 > 0:36:59which marks the modern culmination of the Scottish Enlightenment.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05Garden owners each have a unique relationship with their patch.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08But they all have one thing in common -
0:37:08 > 0:37:10a deep-seated love for their plot.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14I've asked basket-maker Anna Liebemann Coldham to make
0:37:14 > 0:37:17a flower basket for someone I think is very special.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20A flower lady who loves the garden at Abbotsford
0:37:20 > 0:37:22as if it were her own.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27Anna's willow copse follows the principles of organic planting
0:37:27 > 0:37:30and zero-carbon craftsmanship.
0:37:30 > 0:37:33The ecological side for me was really, really important.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35The thing that inspired me about it was that
0:37:35 > 0:37:39I could go to the willow patch just with my secateurs to cut
0:37:39 > 0:37:41some willow, come back, make a basket,
0:37:41 > 0:37:45and that was like the entire product from start to finish with,
0:37:45 > 0:37:49like, no fossil fuels except for the secateurs.
0:37:49 > 0:37:52You know, the manufacture of them, and possibly some chocolate
0:37:52 > 0:37:55that I might get eaten whilst I was harvesting.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59Anna has been a basket weaver for the past six years
0:37:59 > 0:38:01and grows her own willow nearby.
0:38:03 > 0:38:07To work with something that you've grown, you tended, you've harvested
0:38:07 > 0:38:13it, and you've been involved in the whole process from plant to product.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15You kind of feel really proud of it.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21Willow comes in several colours - white when it has been stripped,
0:38:21 > 0:38:24golden if boiled before use.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27But Anna mostly works with willow with the bark still attached.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36Once she gets going, the process is quite quick.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40There's no pattern, just hand and eye forming a centuries-old design
0:38:40 > 0:38:42for a classic flower basket.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45It's a kind of blocking weave.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48Each stroke sort of locks down the previous stroke.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55There's apparently about 2,000 different varieties
0:38:55 > 0:38:56of basketry willow,
0:38:56 > 0:39:00and that's just basketry willows, not all willows.
0:39:02 > 0:39:03So that's quite a lot.
0:39:09 > 0:39:13When you start curving and the whole thing sets curving in,
0:39:13 > 0:39:16so I'm going to stand here
0:39:16 > 0:39:21and here to keep it flat as a weave,
0:39:21 > 0:39:24and pull this really in.
0:39:24 > 0:39:30Because the willow is wet now, you know, it's bendy.
0:39:30 > 0:39:35Once it dries, it'll stay in the shape you put it in.
0:39:35 > 0:39:37This is very, very hard work.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47It looks pretty scraggly at the moment.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50I've just got all these bits flying off everywhere.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01Ta-da!
0:40:03 > 0:40:04That's it finished.
0:40:09 > 0:40:10I think it's really beautiful.
0:40:12 > 0:40:15I reckon the folks at Abbotsford will too.
0:40:22 > 0:40:26Today, Scott's legacy at Abbotsford is a cornucopia of colour,
0:40:26 > 0:40:28probably something he'd recognise.
0:40:32 > 0:40:35Once companion to Scott's great-great-great granddaughters,
0:40:35 > 0:40:38Jeannette McWhinnie is devoted to Abbotsford.
0:40:38 > 0:40:41Her love for this garden oozes from every pore.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44So, I think it's time that Jeannette's dedication
0:40:44 > 0:40:47and floral artistry are recognised.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49I've gathered together the team to unveil
0:40:49 > 0:40:52a fitting tribute to Jeannette.
0:40:52 > 0:40:56You see, this is what I think of the Scots - eating, drinking,
0:40:56 > 0:41:00making merry. It's great. So, would you like a wee dram?
0:41:00 > 0:41:02- Yes, please.- And would you like some stovies?- Of course.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06Right, cos everybody... Look at them all! All empty glasses.
0:41:06 > 0:41:10Off empty dishes. We've got some catching up to do.
0:41:10 > 0:41:13- So you have some of that. - Thank you. Cheers.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18Mm! Oh, you see, look at that.
0:41:18 > 0:41:21Isn't this nice? It beats a barbie.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24Definitely beats a barbie.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28Well, I've had a lovely day and what's really impressive
0:41:28 > 0:41:33about this estate is that it actually speaks of Scott.
0:41:33 > 0:41:36You know, you walk through the gardens, you walk through
0:41:36 > 0:41:40the individual courtyards and there's a peace and serenity.
0:41:40 > 0:41:45But also, you feel the determination and the integrity of the man
0:41:45 > 0:41:48and the fact that he wanted to keep this estate alive, and he did.
0:41:48 > 0:41:52And it's now your responsibility to do that,
0:41:52 > 0:41:55and you're doing it so flipping well.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57Jeanette, earlier you were talking
0:41:57 > 0:42:00about your earlier years on the estate
0:42:00 > 0:42:04and how you enjoyed coming out into the walled garden.
0:42:04 > 0:42:08I thought it would be nice for future years that you could
0:42:08 > 0:42:12continue the tradition of walking rather elegantly
0:42:12 > 0:42:18through a walled garden collecting the bounty of the garden
0:42:18 > 0:42:20and the fragrance, and the colour,
0:42:20 > 0:42:26- but this time and for every day in a new...- Oh, wow!
0:42:26 > 0:42:30- Lovely.- Oh, thank you very much. So, cheers.- Thank you!
0:42:30 > 0:42:34I'm sure it'll be put to good use over the coming years
0:42:34 > 0:42:38and continue the tradition of fresh flowers from the garden.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41- All thanks to the marvellous gardeners.- Absolutely.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43- So, cheers to you all.- Thank you.
0:42:43 > 0:42:47And let's have more whisky, more stovies, and enjoy ourselves.
0:42:47 > 0:42:53- Thank you.- So, a toast, a toast... Walter Scott.- ALL: Walter Scott.
0:43:00 > 0:43:04Born of the incandescent imagination of one man, Abbotsford could
0:43:04 > 0:43:07so easily have been doomed to the mists of time.
0:43:07 > 0:43:12But it's people like Jeannette and Pippa who safeguard Scott's legacy.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15A gardening heritage that's continued
0:43:15 > 0:43:18in the modern and the multi-faceted.
0:43:20 > 0:43:24Gardens and gardeners like these make my world go round.