WHEN Bruce and Maureen Heath spotted their present home nine years ago, it was the garden rather than the house that they fell in love with.
“We spotted the house when we were out walking our dog,” said Mrs heath.
“The garden was big and had huge potential and that’s what we wanted.”
Together they have worked hard to realise that potential. Mr Heath, an accountant, seems to be the expert when it comes to building the garden structures and is very much at home in the vegetable garden.
“I won my first prize for growing vegetables with white turnips when I was six,” he said. And yes, he still grows them today. “We still enter Leeds show and always enter things for the Huddersfield show. It’s usually vegetables for me and handicrafts for my wife.
Mr Heath says they are not quite self-sufficient when it comes to vegetables but they can’t be far off with soft fruit and nuts also to be harvested. “We crop something every month of the year.”
Their technical expertise in managing a garden is outstanding as is the attention to detail in the way plants are maintained.
Wallflowers, forget-me-nots and foxgloves are already being grown on ready for next season, the cherry tree has been pruned to perfection and with a crop of potatoes already delivered, salad leaf has already gone in to follow.
There are chickens which are handy for pest control and a well stocked flower garden which is a plantsman’s dream.
