In 1977, Jinlye resembled "Wuthering Heights" - a bleak stone house on top of a wild open moor; no hedges, no trees but worse of all no garden or wildlife.
Despite horrendous gales, intense cold winters and lack of water in hot dry summers, there is, 22 years on, a mature and interesting garden which in itself has become a haven for lots of wildlife.
Now over an acre in size and open through out the year for the National Garden Scheme, the garden is full of many rare plants with rockeries, scree beds and an alpine house.