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Geilston Garden
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Geilston Garden offers you peace and tranquillity in a beautiful setting. Take a leisurely stroll along the Geilston Burn through the woodland. Watch how the gunnera (or ‘giant rhubarb’) grows. Open the door into the walled garden to be confronted by the mammoth tree of the giant Wellingtonia, one of Geilston’s most memorable specimens. Within these walls that date back to 1797 you enter another world of planting. This is the garden’s most private area, and the gardening skills of Geilston’s previous owner, Miss Elizabeth Hendry, are still indelibly stamped upon it – the heather garden, the Japanese azaleas that burst forth with a rainbow of colour during May, and the statuesque herbaceous plants are all part of the rich heirloom so kindly left by her to the Trust.
The kitchen garden is almost a separate garden within the estate lying to the west side of the car park. This garden springs to life in April and May, and later in the season you can come back and buy some of our lovely and truly fresh fruit and vegetables. There is no better place than Geilston to enjoy a picnic, amidst the paradise created by earlier generations.
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