My grandmother lives in the almshouses at Tewkesbury Abbey. She gardens in a tiny plot in the Graveyard. She grows sweet violets, her favourite flower for the scent and attempts to befriend the local teenagers to stop them from trampling over her flower bed.

My Grandad collects seeds as much as stories. He visits the stately homes of the southwest of England armed with a knife and seed envelopes. Thistles two meters tall from Vita Sackville West's white garden at Sissinghurst, grannies bonnets from hidcote and a dogrose from Hampton Court.

My Other Grandmother has ditched her lawn in favour of plastic grass in which she plants large bunches of very colourful plastic dahlias and other faded plastic delights.

Play and Storytelling in the gardens of Beesterszwag in the company of: Christopher Lloyd; Lewis Caroll; Boris Vian; Derek Jarman and Gertrude Jekyll

Kirsty Roberts