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00:00To be able to do something that you really enjoy, and to benefit others as well, is a really great thing.
00:08This is the sixth year we've opened with the National Garden Scheme.
00:13It's Cedar Cottage Garden, a cottage garden gone a little bit wild.
00:19People are inspired by the garden, and they're interested in it, and they're interested in you, and they're interested in people.
00:28And together it just works really well.
00:32Coming into our garden, we wanted to create a garden that was quite secretive, and a little bit overgrown.
00:40But also that had different areas for different times of the day, so that there's a bit of a breakfast spot,
00:46there's just somewhere to sit while you're working, and then even in the winter there's somewhere to sit.
00:53I think sometimes life's so busy that you just don't get those opportunities,
00:59and so to make time to go and look at gardens, or just to be somewhere that's a natural environment, is very helpful for mind and body.
01:11The work that I do, and the life that I have, can be quite stressful and worrying.
01:18And when I look out of my bedroom window every morning, feeling that the day might be a bit difficult,
01:27and I see the garden, I think, well, it's not all bad. It'll be okay.
01:34The funny thing about gardens, they seem to make people behave nicely and be nice.
01:41This was an old farmhouse. My father-in-law thought it was perhaps built in the 1600s.
01:49The trees are always the magic thing for me.
01:54It just lets one know that we're not very important, really.
02:00It's the living things that go on, whatever we seem to do.
02:05I think it's a wonderful thing, really.