Hannah with a green fingern is planning an ambitious restoration of the 100-year-old walled garden

A talented gardener takes on her biggest challenge when she begins to restore a historic 100-year-old walled garden in a nursing home in North Wales.

Hannah Barrow from Caerwys in Flintshire has just been appointed by the Pendine Park Care Organization, based in Wrexham, the gardening consultant, and her first project is to restore the walled garden in her Bryn Seitze Newydd Care House near Caernarfon.

She will work closely with the Pendine chief Gardener Andrew Jones and his team of five in the recognized gardens in the organization's houses, including Highfield, Pen y Bryn, Bodlondeb, Gwern Alyn and Hilbury in Wrexham.

Hannah, 37, has the family tree – her mother Jan Lomas, now retired, was the chief gardener in Mostyn Hall, Llandudno, and on the Grosvenor Estate, in Chester, and encouraged them to go to the Northop College of Horticulture when they Discovered Hannah's green fingers.

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Hannah worked on the Grosvenor Estate until she decided to branch alone, and she is fresh from giving a herb garden in the recently opened well -being at St. James's Church, Holywell, a project The Prince and Princess, to give the finishing touch Wales was visited before the princess's cancer diagnosis.

The invitation to join the Team of Pendine location of a former Bryn Seont Hospital.

Empty canvas

Hannah, who won a national diploma in horticulture, landscape and design in Northop, said: “Mario's call was out of the blue, but it was so exciting and the first task is the old, walled garden.

“It has been neglected for so many years, but that is not necessarily a bad thing because it means that I have a complete empty canvas and could put together some ideas.

“The area has to be deleted and then hopefully start the right work in March, mark and use hard landscaping, water and foundations for the greenhouses, since everything basically has to be done.

“I can't wait to get started. I love to make my hands dirty and I think that makes me a little different.

“We become a water feature in the middle for residents, a wild flower area, deep shade and sunny borders, vegetable, herb and flower beds, a water feature in the middle, seating outdoors and common rooms for the residents, a wild flower area, a deep shade and sunny borders be.

“I just love to create beautiful rooms, enjoy people, are outside and in nature – I couldn't be inside all the time.”

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Mario Kreft said: “Andrew heads a great team of gardeners in Pendine Park and they have created the most beautiful, well -kept gardens, and that's the key to us.

“We believe that if you have uncomfortable or predominance, the opportunity to spend time outside in a beautiful garden or just see the flowers and trees and hear the birds through the window is so important.

“I only think that Hannah can help our excellent people, and since this is our 40th year at Pendine, I wanted to get some resources to bring what we have here.

“With well -being, it's not just about interiors, but also about their surroundings outdoors – it is literally about smelling the roses.”

Hannah's father John Lomas is now the church in Wales Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, and her parents live in southern Wales, while her childhood was spent in various deputies when her father moved from the community to the community every few years.

talent

She started with her mother in Colwyn Bay and then continued when the family moved to Holywell and she said: “The houses in which we lived were often big with big gardens, so I was able to get out and help my mother.

“I always wanted to work outside. I was never very academic – I always looked out the window at school and I knew that I wanted to be there at a young age.

“I would be outside in the garden with my mother and then we moved to Holywell and then they gave me my own garden stain to develop, and mom noticed that I had a talent.

“I developed a herb and a vegetable garden there and grown annual flowers, and then I realized that I had to go to Northop.

“I loved it there and it is a shame that horticulture college is no longer there – it is a big loss for the area and whale.”

Hannah is married to Thomas and the couple has two children, Esme (18) and James (13), and she sees a lot of herself in James, who likes to work with his mother in the garden.

She decided to get alone in Lockdown and headed a shop and consulting company for the garden design and combines this with her work as a florist – for more about Hannah, click here.