A DOUBLE award-winning Buckie garden is set to open to the public this weekend.

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Rolling out the welcome mat this Saturday and Sunday will be Malcolm and Lizzie Schofield who own a hillside garden on Cuthbert's Brae.

Together they have transformed what was once a wild hill overgrown with brambles into a colourful haven.

The garden is sited on a steep hill with a small flat terrace with gravel garden wrapping around the house. The path then takes you down the bank into a terraced cottage garden that is a magnet for bees butterflies and other wildlife. As you continue into the newer section of the garden you discover the greenhouse, rabbit enclosure and veg beds.

Their efforts were to land them both the Judges' and People's Awards in the 2020 Gardener's World Magazine Garden of the Year contest.

Praising the Schofield's garden, TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh said: "This garden is a really good lesson in what you can achieve in inhospitable conditions with limited knowledge and money."

The couple are opening their garden to the public through the Scotland's Gardens Scheme.

The garden will be open both days from 12.30pm to 5pm.

Admission costs £4, children free, with a percentage of the proceeds going to the Scottish Association for Mental Health.

For more information, including directions, visit https://scotlandsgardens.org

Founded in 1931 to raise money for the Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland, to help support the Queen's Nurses, before the creation of the National Health Service, Scotland's Gardens Scheme seeks to open up a fantastic selection of gardens across the country to raise money for hundreds of charities.

Sixty per cent of the gardens open day takings go to the host's nominated charity with the net of the remainder distributed to Scotland's gardens Scheme beneficiaries.

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