Tuesday 7th October 2008
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Magical addition to Culross gardens
Staff at the National Trust for Scotland’s Culross Palace celebrated an addition to the grounds at the Palace last week, with the official opening of the Mary Luke garden.
The beautiful terraced garden provides stunning views to the Firth of Forth and is named in memory of the woman who inherited Culross Palace at the end of the 19th Century.

The garden was created by a committed team of Trust experts and volunteers, many of whom tries their hands at new trades to help obtain the fantastic results that are now on show to visitors venturing to Culross. Gardeners turned carpenters, building the ornate fences and wooden features of the garden, while surveyors tried their hand at stonemasonry, engraving emblems into stone.

Horticultural highlights include a fragrant selection of period roses, low growing aromatic and flowering herbs like creeping thyme, pennyroyal and chamomile. Beautiful blooms come in the form of the double flowering buttercup and cowslips.

Culross head gardener Mark Jeffery would like to thank everyone involved with the project.

The garden is open daily from 10am until 6pm.
 
Mary Luke Garden