Clare and Mac Ransom are pleased to welcome visitors to their “development” garden in their new house at the end of Nun Street.
118 Nun Street (also known as 3 Mount Gardens), St Davids
Clare (the gardener) and Mac (the encourager and tea-maker) Ransom
A spacious back garden of trees, sun and shade with a pond. Wheelchair accessible. Dogs on leads please.
We have owned our garden for more than two years, but for most of that time it has been a building site. Following major works, we have some areas which are a complete blank canvas, and others that are mature, with established trees including copper beech and elm.
We had to build a retaining wall to allow for extending the house and this was an opportunity to make the garden wheelchair accessible. Last summer I established a wildlife pond in place of an old concrete shed base that was dug out. It is already teeming with life and bats feed there in summer at dusk.
0ur aim is to have functional, practical space but also to create wild areas and space for food growing. I am learning about nature gardening as I go along, getting to know the garden, the soil and the climate here in St Davids. Much of that learning has come through involvement with Erw Dewi Community Garden.
I enjoy acquiring locally grown plants, especially perennials and pollinators, making use of what is already here, looking for ways to encourage biodiversity and including native species for hedging and wildflowers areas. We already have a lovely range of bird- life visiting, despite at least five neighbourhood cats that pass through each day.
Suggestions of plants to grow and ideas for future developments are very welcome!
Dogs on leads only please. Do not walk too close to the pond and fall in – it upsets the tadpoles!