Andy Murray and wife Kim have opened up about their love for gardening – although the retired tennis ace has admitted he is hopeless at it.
The couple invited gardening supremo Monty Don to their luxury hotel Cromlix, in Dunblane, Perthshire, for a look and explained the work around the property has been inspired by Kim’s own love for flowers and plant.
But Sir Andy confessed: ‘I’m definitely not green fingered and actually I don’t even know what that means either.
‘I’m assuming it is a gardening term that I should know.’
The father-of-four left his wife in stitches with the comments but she later told Mr Don on BBC Gardners’ World she aims to get him into gardening having just planted 6,000 tulips around their own estate.
Andy Murray and wife Kim show BBC crew around gardens of Cromlix House hotel on Gardeners World
Kim shows off some of the flowers in the grounds of Cromlix
She added: ‘He was not into art but I got him into art.
‘And he noticed my tulips this year.
‘Andy has more time in his hands now and he has a very curious mind so I think one day he’ll get into it.’
Mrs Murray said she was first invited to the Royal Chelsea Flower Show in 2013 when a hosta was named after her husband. She said: ‘I was very excited to visit and I received a hosta named Andy Murray and I brought it home and I took great pride in planting it out and it got absolutely decimated by slugs really rapidly.’
However, since then she has manged to oversee a kitchen garden at Cromlix which produces cut flowers for the house and ingredients for the kitchen and the bar.
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Anyone for gardening? Just don’t ask former Wimbledon champion Andy Murray!