The English Garden

Flying COLOURS

Autumn is a colourful season in the walled garden of Logie House, but it has not always been that way. Panny Laing has transformed the five-acre garden she and her husband Alasdair inherited some 30 years ago, sweeping away formality, planting a mass of trees and shrubs and opening up a long-buried burn. The result is a scenic space that holds interest all year round but positively glows with colour as the days shorten.

Looking down over the River Findhorn in the north-east corner of Scotland, Logie House dates back to the early 18th century. It is at the heart of an estate that has been in Alasdair’s family since 1924, when it was bought by his great-great grandfather, Alexander Grant, a

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