A Dundee Garden
Both Anna and John are keen gardeners and have developed the full potential of their home with a steep south facing garden in an area of low rainfall and plenty sunshine.
Design elements incorporate year round colour and interest using annuals, bedding plants, shrubs, roses, bulbs and a herbaceous border. 
Anna is very happy to share these pictures of her home and garden.
Autumn colour extends the interest into winter and the colour stemmed border maintains the attraction until the early spring bulbs emerge.
A fruit garden was also planned to supply fresh fruit over the summer and into winter with stored top fruit, including apples, pears, and plums in the freezer. Wherever possible walls and fences are planted with climbers, and there is a lot of tubs and hanging baskets
A glasshouse was built to supply grapes, tomatoes and all the bedding plants as well as vegetables and cut flowers for the new allotment garden.
As both Anna and John would need a place to relax after all the work of creating and maintaining the garden, they built three patios to follow the sun so they could relax all day long if ever they could find the time for it.
If only !!
The structure of the garden is set within a framework of trees and conifers suited to the small garden. Views of the garden can be seen from all the bedrooms, and views of the River Tay and Fife can be seen from the garden.
Both John and Anna are very happy to help (if we can), with any gardening query, so please feel free to contact us with your horticultural problems.
Gardening in Dundee all year round
The garden year begins in winter.
The garden season starts in winter with the Cornus, Kerria and Leycesteria coloured stemmed shrubs, as well as the highly coloured heather garden with an excellent specimen of a white stemmed birch tree, Betula jaquemontia.
In February the Snowdrops, Hellebores and Aconites burst into life to be followed with a succession of Crocus, Daffodils, Chionodoxa, Tulips, Anemonies, Bluebells and Hyacinths.
The spring garden show
The spring garden continues with Polyanthus, Myosotis, Pansies and wallflower in the tubs and beds at ground level. A bit bigger are the Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Jasmine, and Clematis. At this time the herbaceous border puts on a great display with iris, and pyrethrums.
Blossom continues in the trees with pear, apples, plums, cherries, peach, and lilac.
Summer roses Flowers and Soft Fruit
The rose garden steals the show in summer with bush hybrid tea and floribunda roses as well as an area devoted to highly scented New English shrub roses, and there are several climbing roses adorning walls and fences, including Dublin Bay shown here.
Geraniums and other bedding put on a great display in the beds, tubs and hanging baskets throughout the summer and into autumn.
Interest in mid summer turns to fruit with strawberries, raspberries, currants, blueberries, and Scottish blaeberries. Then the top fruit have their time with pears, apples, plums, and peaches and in profusion. Anna uses the home grown fruits to make her homemade jams.
John gets ideas for paintings some of which can be seen be at the John Stoa Art Gallery
The Garden in Autumn
Late summer is enjoyed with carnations, gladioli, Chrysanthemums, lilies then the Maples in their autumn colour together with the rowans and birch.
In late August outdoor grapes, Vitis vinifera Brant, are welcome while the greenhouse grapes, Black Hamburg, Muskat of Alexandria and the red seedless Flame mature and provide grapes till the end of October. This range of grapes allows harvesting over nearly two months.
Scottish outdoor grown and unprotected raspberries and strawberries
are also available till the end of October depending on the weather from the varieties Autumn Bliss raspberry and Flamenco perpetual strawberry. In a favourable year the early strawberry variety Mae also has another flush of fruit in autumn.
Autumn Fruits
Berries are prolific on the rowans, pyracanthas, cotoneaster, thornless blackberry Loch Ness and cape gooseberries. The latter of course are for the table.
Visitors to Dundee and Tayside whether on business, or holiday makers visiting Scotland for the first time are very welcome to wander around the garden and enjoy the flowers, trees and shrubs.
However, for those keen gardeners who live too far away, Anna has displayed her garden on the internet with pages filled with garden flowers, fruit, exotics and trees for the small garden plus horticultural notes. Please enjoy browsing her Scottish Home and Garden.
Dundee Botanical Gardens also have a lot of horticultural information which can be found on a link to the Dundee City page.
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