Glenngarann has become a collection of Gardens varying in themes. The Celtic Garden is reminiscent of Scotland, Whales and Ireland's ancient Celtic/Medieval medicinal gardens. Imitating the sacred places of the Celtic people's healing gardens and Franciscan Friary herb gardens to the Celtic people's cottage gardens; it is a proverbial bouquet fragrant flowers, medicinal and culinary herbs and fes
tooned tuteurs of billowy cabbage roses spiling out onto the pathways. Sacred trees and shrubs to the Celtic legends line the garden like the yew, apple and boxwood. Fragrance and nostalgia are paramount in this healing garden.s a proverbial bouquet of flowers, herbs and festooned tuteurs nestled together with billowy cabbage roses and clipped boxwood. The Sweetheart Garden is charmed in a sunny disposition and is graced with heart warming roses tucked behind a boxwood hedge. This romantic and traditional setting holds a rose covered arbor and treasures such as the playful fountain and a classical urn. Parts of Glenngarann gently slopes into the a deep glen and is the perfect location of Hillside Garden, a strolling garden with tree top vistas of the mysterious Glenn and sun warmed terraces full of surprises. The whimsical Wishing Well Garden is nestled into a woodsy fern Grotto. This is a cool and shady place to rest and get refreshed and to sort through your wish list and drop a coin into the magical Wishing Well . The Glenn is a naturalized Woodland with a collection of rhododendrons and azaleas with meandering pathways leading you along a small creek deep within the woodlands. The Gardener's Cottage with its' surrounding storybook setting is the fabled home of the garden's keeper and is always set for tea. We are currently creating Cottingley Meadow a Faerie Garden which will be an intimate gathering place for events on a grassy meadow. Surrounding this enchanted meadow will be a Secret Garden and the home for our woodland friends the Garden Gnomes and Forest Faeries. In the future the Castle Ruin and Rockwood Abbey Garden will be completed and ready to display it's medieval gardens of old English climbing roses and ivy. We are always dreaming, planning and planting new areas as we expand the gardens. Some of the areas are not quite ready for the public and remain closed. This page will be updated when new areas and gardens are open. Glenngarann was founded in 2007 with high ambition of establishing a humble theme garden on a neglected suburban parcel of land. When Kathy and I purchased this wooded half acre there wasn't a hint of a garden or clipped boxwood anywhere, just brier brambles and unkept woodlands. We have managed to clean up, dream up, plant and establish Glenngarann. The gardens are completely off the grid with no electricity and no city or well water. Water is brought to Glenngarann and rain water is collected and stored providing enough for the gardens to flourish. Special attention is given to plant selection, water conservation methods, and the soil is conditioned with compost for a healthy garden. The garden beds, pathways and even the cottage and garden structures were all built without electricity with the few exceptions that parts of projects were precut and brought to Glenngarann to be assembled. As the garden plans expand so does the ingenuity...the cycle never stops...dreaming, planning, building.
