Philip Wood and David Wilson explore the garden of Wilfie and Margaret McDowell in Ballynahinch, County Down.
The garden is half an acre and "set amongst rolling countryside" with the plants being a very personal selection of newer introductions along with "half forgotten, or somewhat neglected past failures". All in all, the variations make this "a marvellous example of a modern cottage garden - It exudes a love of plants and like all gardens, it is unique".
Wilfie explains, as he guides Philip around the paths that when he started there was nothing here, in fact there was even a pony that grazed on the ground! He began the journey of creating a well loved garden by first putting a path in, so he had somewhere to put his plants. The rest of the plants which can now be found on the plot, are either there due to them being personal favourites or are happy accidents that have occurred through them self-seeding.