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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.
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.
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Palace, Study, and Town House: 21 Mar to 31 May, Thur–Mon 12–5; 1 Jun to 31 Aug, daily 12–5; 1 to 30 Sep, Thur–-Mon 12–5; 1 to 31 Oct, Thur–Mon 12–4.
Access to The Study and Town House is by guided tour only. Tours depart from palace reception every hour. First tour departs 1pm, last tour departs 4pm. (During October, last tour departs 3pm.) Tours last approx 1 hour.
Bessie Bar Tearoom: open same dates until 5.30pm (4.30 in October)
Garden: all year, daily 10–6 or sunset if earlier.
Please note that the Palace will be closed from Monday 22 - Thursday 25 September. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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