NGS (national Garden Scheme) garden in Bishops Wood, open this weekend.

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Meet Rachel Glover at her lovely garden: Spring Cottage, in Bishops Wood, on the Shropshire border. She is opening this weekend for the NGS. She has changed career and is herself now a fully fledged garden designer.

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00:00So we're here in Bishopswood and Spring Cottage and what a beautiful spring garden it is.

00:06Hello madam.

00:07Hello, nice to meet you.

00:09What's your name?

00:10My name's Rachel Glover.

00:11Rachel, and we're here to give you a plug because you're sharing your wonderful garden

00:15with the masses aren't you?

00:16I am.

00:17I am for the National Garden Scheme, a really worthy charity and people love to come to

00:24the garden, spend time in it, look at the plants and of course have my lovely delicious

00:28cake.

00:29Wow, fantastic.

00:30You've got quite a lot of unusual plants haven't you, you were saying, unusual specimens, so

00:36it's quite interesting on that level as well isn't it?

00:38Yes, I do like to have different rare varieties.

00:48But I manage to dig it all out, put all the pathways in, all the borders myself, we built

00:55the pergolas, so yeah, in three years we've now cultivated a lovely garden.

01:00It's become not just a passion but a living for you as well hasn't it, you design gardens

01:04as well.

01:05It is, Potentilla Garden Design, yes.

01:08I left management and retail after 30 years during Covid and went back to training at

01:16Rod Baston College for two and a half years where I got my Horticultural Level 3 Diploma

01:21and now I work in industry and I love being outside for well-being, it gives you, it's

01:29just a happy place to be in and makes you a happy person.

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