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All the United Kingdom Scotland Saint Monans Wellie Garden of St Monans

Wellie Garden of St Monans

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

Saint Monans, Scotland

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The old wellies decorate the slipway at the St Monans harbour.   Rob Burke
The Wellie Garden at St Monans Harbour.   duncanchappell (Atlas Obscura User)
Each pair are donated to the cause.   Oor Woolie
The garden of old wellies, along the old slipway at the harbour.   Graham Hogg
200 pair and counting.   Oor Woolie
The small harbour and slipway in the village of St. Monans.   Map Data
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Stone boot sculpture with a background of planted wellies   lauraanneholloway / Atlas Obscura User
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St. Monans is a village on the east coast of Scotland in a hook of land known as the Kingdom of Fife, wedged between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth. For two centuries this small community built ships, including a fishing trawler called a Fifie, particularly adept at catching herring.

That business is mostly gone now, and the shipyard at St. Monans has been closed for years. But life at the tiny harbour is still draped in maritime history, which brings a certain number of tourists eager to share in the kind of rugged and salty beauty particular to the East Neuk of Fife. One draw that has grown over the past few years is the Wellie Boot Garden, planted in the old harbour slipway.

The Wellie Garden was started by Win Brown, a local teacher and amateur gardener who decided to put her grandchildren's outgrown Wellington boots to good use, and brighten up the slipway at the same time. Old boots came from her students, too, as well as others looking to clear out their closets. So popular was the idea that some 200 pairs, and counting, decorate the rusted slip rails every summer.

The cheeky little garden has helped St. Monans win some awards in the annual “Beautiful Fife” competition, bringing some welcome attention to a town trying to diversify its economy. If you like what you see, leave a donation (all are given to charity). And if you really like what you see, leave a donation and a pair of old Wellies. Those will be put to good use.

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St Monans is a small village between the A917 and the Firth of Forth, about an hour's drive southeast of Perth.

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Wellie Garden of St Monans
West End and West Shore
Saint Monans, Scotland, KY10
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