Karen and Rex's home is not just 'the last house' at the end of a cul-de-sac in old New Town. No, the house sits confidently right across the road, as if to say 'here I am and no public access beyond this point'. If you are lucky enough to be invited to go further, enter the gate, and walk around the corner of the house to the hidden garden behind, you do indeed enter an oasis away from the public eye.
First you see above you and to the side of the path the most perfect greener-than-green flowering climbing hop bush ever, and then, when you stop admiring that and look down again, you realise that you have entered a garden that is quite unique.
