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Lady Cawdor talks about her garden 
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Wednesday, August 01 2007 12:32:05 by Editor
The normally publicity-shy Lady Cawdor has been talking about the popular public gardens at Cawdor castle, in an interview given to the Scotsman last week.
Perhaps the biggest change in the gardens in recent years have been the series of gardens at the castle's south side, grown to symbolise Paradise, Purgatory - which features many varieties of thistles! - and Earth, planted with irises, lavender and herbs.
Lady Cawdor said that her researching of the gardens had been "great fun.
"I only choose plants if I really like them," Lady Cawdor says. "I consider shape or flower, scent and texture of leaves and tend to stick to traditional plants."
The castle grounds contain a walled garden, dating from around 1600, and a flower garden dating from a century later. Many of the same plants originally grown there can be viewed by visitors today.
The castle itself dates from as far back as the 14th century in parts.
"There has been a long chain of people whose job it has been to care for the gardens at Cawdor and I am just part of that. It would be a mistake to come in and change things and modernise them", Lady Cawdor.
The gardens at Cawdor were opened to the public in the 1970s, and benefit from an unusually temperate climate for such a northerly latitude, meaning that a surprising variety of plants can be grown there.
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