The story behind Kailyard Herbs
How it began
In my small garden in Glasgow, a productive and overgrown rosemary made me wonder how I could share it. A gardening career switch made me more experimental in my kitchen garden, and this expanded into remedy making. A love of learning about herbs, their histories, and their uses, opened a new world of food, medicine and plant lore.
A new garden in Cowal became our playground, learning how to grow, edit and design a garden from a blank canvas. And how to propagate herbs for sharing.
Through my gardening business, Papaver Gardening, I’m learning about what works and what doesn’t in our rainy and mild Argyll climate.
It’s not just about gardening. As a writer, it’s the stories behind the plants we use that also intrigue me and have informed my creative practice.
Combined, these interests, passions and experiences created Kailyard Herbs
Lynne, Kailyard Herbs
Behind the garden gate
From tending to public and private kitchen and herb gardens in the Pentland Hills, Glasgow city, across Dunoon and Cowal, Kailyard Herb’s gardener, Lynne, is cultivating expertise in growing in our Scottish climate. And loves to share these skills and knowledge.
Lynne has an HNC in Horticulture, an RBGE certificate in Herbology, ongoing CPD training in propagation skills, garden history, planting design and more. A professional writer who also dabbles in fiction, Lynne has almost completed her MLitt in Highlands & Islands Literature with the University of the Highlands and Islands. Lynne also runs Papaver Gardening, a garden maintenance and planting design business.
As a proud member of the POP shop in Dunoon, and tending to their Dunoon Goes POP Drinks Gardens at the POP shop and Top Shop, I work on community-minded garden projects as well as with private clients. As part of a small team at The Hidden Gardens in Glasgow, Lynne supported a Heritage Lottery-funded project to create a new Medicinal Courtyard (a modern physic garden) within their space.
A herb garden is not just for you. It’s also for the bees, frogs, birds, moths and other creatures you share your garden with. And before you know it, you’ll also be sharing herbs with your neighbours, friends and wider community.
