Before and after shots for a repair in Shandon. This retaining wall had collapsed a short time ago. Narrow stones placed poorly on sloping bedrock at the base and two or three budlia growing on top made it fall. I cut more bedrock out, with an axe of all things, and laid the base stones across the wall to give more stability. It is part of the boundary wall of the kitchen garden for one of the big old houses cut into the hillside at Shandon. Eight gardeners once tended the stuff destined for the table of the big house on the other side of the burn. There are few vegetables at the moment but the vegetation is so luxuriant that at least one entire glass house lay concealed and I only ever saw one corner of the garden. Although it is not large, I still have no idea of its extent.
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