Projects and experience
From Glasgow to Cowal, explore the projects and gardening experience that led to the creation of Kailyard Herbs.
Explore our experience and past projects
Dunoon Goes POP
Supporting the creation of a community-designed drinks garden filled with flavoursome herbs for the soft drinks project at the POP shop and the Top Shop.
The POP Shop, Dunoon
Ongoing tending to the window boxes at the POP shop in Dunoon. From herbal-tea themed designs to pollinator-friendly spring blooms, the planting is regularly refreshed.
The Hidden Gardens, Glasgow
Where our herb garden journey and the idea for this enterprise began. Supporting the head gardener, as a sessional gardener, Lynne led a series of community workshops for the creation of a medicinal courtyard at this sanctuary garden in Glasgow’s southside. This project was supported by Heritage Lottery Fund.
Kailyard Herbs, Dunoon
Turning our garden into a productive, wildlife-rich and beautiful kailyard - veg patch - that is full of herbs began in 2021. Drawing from Scotland’s herbal traditions, we’re growing a mix of plants with a long herbal history in Scotland, as well as other herbs that thrive in our west-coast conditions. We’re experimenting with growing herbs for making herbal teas.
Lynne has also been delivering food and herb-growing workshops through local community projects and her own herbal tea-blending workshops.
Papaver Gardening, Cowal
Tending to veg patches and herbs through gardens in and around Dunoon through our gardening maintenance business, Papaver Gardening. Hillside, coastal, farmland and town-based gardens, we’re learning about the differing microclimates, challenges and opportunities around this west-coast peninsula.
Southside, Glasgow
Bags of rosemary gifted to a local baker. Testing, propagating, planting, designing, studying, growing, cooking and eating herbs, making remedies to use at home. Before our move to Cowal, our first herb garden and the initial idea for Kailyard Herbs began in our small garden in Glasgow.
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