About us

Since 1980 we have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy, a small country living from our Cotswold hillside cottage. Our speciality is growing Pinks although we also grow many other perennials. 

The farmland above us was once the site of an open cast quarry where limestone was extracted for building and road making. Our cottage, built in 1840 from the locally quarried limestone, once housed a quarryman and his family and it appears that the horses used for pulling the carts of stone were also housed nearby.  The many large horseshoes we have found when creating flower beds indicate that these were shire horses.

  As there were no flowerbeds or gardens already here we were able to start from scratch although we did find a wealth of Cotswold stone as we dug out flower beds from the spoil of the now extinct stone quarry as well as walls that had collapsed and been buried under grass and nettles! All very challenging and, at times, exhausting!!

Not only do we enjoy beautiful views but we are lucky to have an abundance of wild flora and fauna so we consider ourselves fortunate to live, work and raise a family in such an idyllic environment.