Threave Garden (NTS)
The National Trust for Scotland’s own school of horticulture is based here. The 1 acre (0.4 hectare) walled kitchen garden has an extensive area of soft fruit and vegetables.
The National Trust for Scotland’s own school of horticulture is based here. The 1 acre (0.4 hectare) walled kitchen garden has an extensive area of soft fruit and vegetables.
Kitchen garden built in 1820, with unusual sloping raised beds. It has undergone extensive renovation and is now back in full production. Split into five sections, each has a different them and character: fruit, vegetables, ornamental planting, pumpkin patch and community garden.
Privately owned, group visits catered for. Walled kitchen garden with complete range of potting sheds, glasshouses, cold frames etc.
The walled garden was built around 1838 and has been partly restored, with the top walled garden in cultivation. Victorian glasshouses with unique back-wall ventilation system, ‘Gothic’ potting shed. Trevarno is also home to the National Museum of Gardening which has the most comprehensive collection of garden tools and memorabilia in the country and is worth visiting for that alone.
Kitchen garden is part ornamental, part productive, with fruit and vegetables supplying the restaurant.
18th century walled garden, remodelled in the 20th century as a destination for garden visitors with increasing emphasis on landscaping and planting from the 1930’s onwards and under NT management from the mid 1950’s with the guidance of Graham Stuart Thomas. Formal terrace with borders. Show conservatory. Planting for year round interest. Composting demonstration area adjacent
The Walton Lea Project provides education and supported work experience for people with learning disabilities. Restored garden includes a fives court and auricular theatre dating from 1864. Heritage fruit and vegetables sold in the shop. Open Monday – Friday, 9.30am-3.30pm, no charge.
Fabulous Edwardian kitchen garden with thirteen fully stocked period glasshouses and plant houses, frames and pits. Fruit house, herbaceous borders, zig-zag fruit wall, Heritage fruit and vegetable collections, tool and mower collections.
The two acre walled garden with its glasshouses designed by Sir John Soane, has been fully restored. Produce now supplies the Old Rectory restaurant. Further restoration is planned for the potting shed, bothy, apple store, etc.
Acquired by National Trust in 1939. 2004 opened in its present form as working family Georgian house and garden. Walled kitchen garden. Planted with produce to supply the working Georgian kitchen. As far as is practicable most plants are pre 1770 and therefore historically accurate for a late Georgian garden. Managed organically, medicinal herbs are grown in the physic beds under the apple trees, the east and west walls are used to grow local varieties of espalier apples and pears.