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The warm days of
summer provide dramatic flower displays in the herbaceous borders,scent
from the rose gardens fills the air, and the vegetable gardens
are a sight for sore eyes (or hungry stomachs!!). Here are some
of the sights to be seen in summer and where to go to see them.
Harvesting cut flowers
Culzean Castle, Drum Castle and Priorwood Garden.
Herbaceous borders
Crathes Castle, Castle Fraser, Culzean Castle, Falkland Palace,
Leith Hall, Pitmedden Garden, Threave Garden, Geilston, Haddo.
Mixed borders
Crathes Castle, Harmony Garden, Hill of Tarvit Mansionhouse, Kellie
Castle, Malleny Garden.
Model `period gardens`
Culross Palace (17th century), House of Dun (19th century), The Hill House (20th century).
Olearia - Daisy Bush
Inverewe Garden (National Collection).
Rose gardens
Drum Castle, Hill of Tarvit Mansionhouse, Malleny Garden.
Summer bedding
Greenbank Garden, Pitmedden Garden.
Vegetable gardens
Castle Fraser, Harmony Garden, Inverewe Garden, Kellie Castle
(purely organic), Leith Hall, Malleny Garden, Threave Garden.
Woodland gardens
Arduaine Garden, Brodick Castle, Inverewe
Garden, Threave Garden, Lochalsh Woodland Garden.
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