https://www.blackislegardendesign.com/home daily 1.0 2025-12-01 https://www.blackislegardendesign.com/about daily 0.75 2025-12-09 https://www.blackislegardendesign.com/gallery daily 0.75 2025-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/f8e6c933-aedc-4362-b241-258b861cafc5/ChelwoodAutumn.jpg Gallery A winding path with cobbles, flagstones and terracotta edging, flanked by colourful borders, at a garden at Chelwood House, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/4d160382-814f-41d5-9240-860e4825bc54/ChelwoodPlan-845x684.jpg Gallery A hand-drawn plan of the garden design for Chelwood House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/b498992f-b9d6-42bc-82d5-5fca510ee371/ChelwoodWet.jpg Gallery A close-up of a border at Chelwood House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/a5bbc06f-3c1d-45eb-a1df-d3bd9d82493c/Black-Isle-Garden-Design-Scotch-Thistle.jpg Gallery A bumble bee on a Scotch Thistle flower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/f84396a0-54cc-4261-b70b-422e4cc028c9/KilcoyCastleFull-845x684.jpg Gallery A view of the Kilcoy Castle from the Marian Garden, showing borders, paths, walls, trees, a lawn and hedging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/7d7a061b-b6c7-47b5-859d-40dd152aa78a/KilcoyDigger.jpg Gallery A groundworker using a dumper to fill new beds with topsoil and compost in the Marian Garden at Kilcoy Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/15beb09b-8c4f-401a-9c3f-5fd6119bd5c7/KilcoyBambooTowers-1500x1125.jpg Gallery Freshly planted beds in the star of the Marian Garden, Kilcoy Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/2ec90977-1c01-4c50-baf7-ed05e97e0312/KilcoyFocus.jpg Gallery A view towards the arch leading to the star in the Marian Garden, Kilcoy Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/0f1ba557-3036-46ed-aca6-f0da68b0dfac/KilcoyPort-705x684.jpg Gallery Paths and drystone walls in the Marian Garden, Kilcoy Castle. New beds, yet to be planted up, are edged with Everedge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/d13bfd09-6f61-4ae2-bf0a-2854bef8cf9c/KilcoyRowPots-788x430.jpg Gallery Steps leading down to the path around the Marian Garden, Kilcoy Castle. Terracotta pots filled with herbs. Mixed naturalistic planting with pleached hornbeam and formal hedging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/a4ba81bb-c57e-451a-881d-f67c23605748/KilcoyStar-788x430.jpg Gallery The star beds in the centre of the Marian Garden at Kilcoy Castle, planted with santolina hedging and surrounded by stone slab paving and fine gravel paths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/a3bf1f7c-e951-4145-9db1-742ca17faec9/KilcoyStarGreen-1030x687.jpg Gallery A wider-angled view of the star in the Marian Garden, Kilcoy Castle, showing some lawns and freshly planted beds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/de91c3fc-78e7-4f46-a386-1aecfff862b9/KilcoyStarWood.jpg Gallery Fillig the beds with topsoil and compost at the Marian Garden, Kilcoy Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/1c5566a5-d7a6-4bb2-8f3a-9742b01cd151/KilkoyBambooTowers2.jpg Gallery Pleached hornbeam with bamboo supports in the Marian Garden, Kilcoy Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/2b5d3246-4f6d-4b78-a94a-f14dd9e992a4/image.jpg Gallery A close up of orange-red dogwood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/93536542-6c37-406c-bc88-a2b9226c5c40/Curve-of-wall-1030x687.jpg Gallery A garden redesigned for bees and other invertabrates located behind a Victorian mid-terrace house in the centre of Fortrose, Black Isle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/9b63249b-3c0c-4307-acf1-c98ed64307a1/Thyme-Path-Close-Up.jpg Gallery A close up of a paved path to be planted with creeping thyme, leading to a garden shed in a small garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/236a55c9-a6b3-4a3e-9bdb-86ddf3d620cc/Wall-and-Hut-2014.jpg Gallery A patio and a drystone wall with a shed in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/b9b973f4-e18d-46b1-b855-3fecf0b7b795/Just-planted-1030x618.jpg Gallery Looking towards a shed in a garden redesigned for bees and other invertabrates and located behind a Victorian mid-terrace house in the centre of Fortrose, Black Isle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/30f97502-0bb3-48ca-8cad-26cd66e3fd0f/One-year-on-1030x687.jpg Gallery Escallonia and Lavender hedges, and an espalier apple tree, one year after planting around a drystone wall.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/d1593166-81f4-4d4f-b0f8-8a596aef519a/Pyracantha-Orange-Glow-768x576.jpg Gallery Orange berries on a Pyracantha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/7e9e16b8-1284-4487-b0a2-c0e3ef7a895f/Black-Isle-Garden-Design-weeds-for-pollinators.jpg Gallery Cow parsley flowers with pollinator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/e7ed84be-7d89-439b-975a-300e8b13c77d/R-August-15-Long-border-from-trefoil-1500x1125.jpg Gallery Winding path between beds full of naturalistic planting in purples and pinks, with handsome mature trees in the background at the garden at Rowchester. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/e51285f8-3f6e-4421-bae7-bade36c4f468/R-1030x773.jpg Gallery Formal parterre beds arranged before a view to open farmland and mature trees, Rowchester. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/d09fbf52-d957-41fc-bdbf-8bc841e1d91d/R-August-15-Claire-walking-towards-trefoil-845x684.jpg Gallery A woman in a long dress walking down a path towards the camera, flanked by tall flower borders edged with hedging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/3fe2517b-b67f-410c-b315-918ce92179e4/Hoverfly-on-Agastache-Blue-Fortune-845x684.jpg Gallery A close-up of a hoverfly pollinating a purple Agastache flower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911e1a055c6993602d0f8be/d57cdcf3-2307-4f8b-bf47-62f3f8dccffa/Bergenia-Bressingham-White-768x576.jpg Gallery Bergenia 'Bressingham White'. https://www.blackislegardendesign.com/book-a-consultation daily 0.75 2026-03-23