Cookies

We use necessary cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set optional analytics cookies to help us improve it. We won't set optional cookies unless you enable them or accept our recommended settings. Using this tool will set a cookie on your device to remember your preferences.

Options
Necessary cookies enable core functionality on our website. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.
We use marketing cookies to personalise your visit to our website and show you tailored advertising based on your likes and interests.
We use analytics cookies to monitor visitor behaviour patterns and improve our website performance.

Your preferences have been set. If you wish to change your preferences, you may do so on our cookies page.

Search My Trust
Join now
Join
Close

Looking for places? Use our place search to find them by name, town or postcode.

See all stories
2 Mar 2018

Beauty and the beast

Pitmedden Garden during a snow blizzard
Pitmedden Garden during a snow blizzard
The snow may have been coming down thick and fast but National Trust for Scotland places are looking as pretty as ever. It’s like a winter wonderland rather than a beast from the east.

1. The Pineapple

A view of The Pineapple covered in snow

2. Hugh Miller's Birthplace

The thatched roof of Hugh Miller's Birthplace with a dusting of snow

3. Castle Fraser

A snow-covered Castle Fraser viewed from inside the courtyard

4. Pitmedden Garden

The snow-covered hedges of Pitmedden Garden under a blue sky

5. Hill of Tarvit Mansion

Featured Place: Hill of Tarvit Mansion
A view of Hill of Tarvit Mansion from the snow covered grounds

Stay in touch

Be the first to hear about our latest news, get inspiration for great days out and learn about the work we do for the love of Scotland.

Sign up now

Read next

A woman crouches down next to tools and buckets in bogland.

Love Scotland podcast – 2025 season

Jackie tracks the life of Charles Edward Stuart – known to many by the nickname of Bonnie Prince Charlie – after the events of the Battle of Culloden. 

Trust pays tribute to Ken Calman

All at the Trust were saddened to hear of the death of former Chair, Professor Sir Kenneth Calman.

Shelves filled with books inside Culzean's second-hand book shop.

Second-hand bookshops across Scotland

While you explore our places, be sure to take a moment to pop in and browse the shelves of our second-hand bookshops.

A concrete, modernist building is built over several floors and appears almost as if on stilts. A large tree branch is in the foreground. The building is surrounded by security fencing.

Coalition to save Peter Womersley’s Bernat Klein Studio

The National Trust for Scotland is part of a coalition of heritage and design organisations working to save the Bernat Klein Studio in the Scottish Borders from ruin.

Read more stories on

Back to top