Upcycled garden on Beechgrove

I met Lynn Cameron this afternoon when I popped over to Alva to take some photos for her forthcoming Open Gardens in August. 
That’s when I discovered she would be featured in next week's  BBC Scotland Beechgrove gardening programme.
 
She has taken upcycling to a whole new level, long before it became fashionable. Practically all of her garden is the result of stuff that’s been given to her– a folly constructed from stones from a demolished local house, bricks destined for the skip, junk which neighbours have thrown out like an iron bedstead, a door,  and even a church pew.
 
In her inventive hands she has transformed this destined for the skip and landfill into unique features in her garden which is divided into a series of outdoor rooms: cottage, Mediterranean, oriental and woodland.
 
And all this has been achieved after she bought her council flat thirty years ago and acquired four plots because nobody wanted them.
 
NB. Lyn will be on Beechgrove gardens BBCScotland Thursday 22 July.