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She explains: “From the ship stuck in the Suez Canal, to Brexit, Covid and over-demand, the dynamics are huge in terms of the supply chain.
A sensitive renovation of a town garden
“And many commercial growers lost plants through the cold spring, or because workers were furloughed.”
Kirsty started her business 20 years ago after training as a garden designer via a long-distance course with the Royal Horticultural Society from her home in Aberdeenshire.
She recalls: “It was an excellent course, but the horticultural aspects were geared to southern gardens, so I had to adjust that to be applicable to the conditions here.
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Molly Forbes with James Guthrie’s To Pastures New, which inspired a portrait of her by Alicia Bruce (Picture: Copyright Alicia Bruce www.aliciabruce.co.uk)
Molly Forbes would not have expected her obituary to appear in a national newspaper. A retired caterer, a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she enjoyed living quietly on her son’s land in Aberdeenshire – until their way of life came under threat from one of the most powerful men in the world.
Molly and her neighbours found themselves cast as the unlikely opponents of Donald Trump when he tried to have them evicted from their land at Menie, north of Aberdeen, to make room for his luxury golf resort. During the development, Trump had a wall built around their property so that visitors to the resort would not have to see them, and Molly and her family lived for five years without a reliable water supply.