Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: FrazerHenderson on July 18, 2011, 01:40:21 PM
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Threave Gardens
Location: 1 mile from Castle Douglas, Dumfriesshire
Opening times: see www.nts.org.uk
Admission: Free to National Trust for Scotland, National Trust and RHS members. Also accept BBC 2 for 1 voucher. Otherwise check on website.
Owners: NTS
Facilities: Good licensed restaurant, shop and plant sales. Art exhibitions.
Gardens: Extend to 64 acres and include: one acre walled garden with glasshouses with a wide range of temperate and tropical plants; mixed borders; pond and waterfall; orchards; woodland garden (with good selection of primulas rhododendrons, meconopses, hostas); formal island bedding; rose garden; children’s play area; wild flower meadows; daffodil bank; peat garden and a large rock garden.
House: Scots baronial and open to visitors at selected times.
Information: reasonable information centre advising of history of the estate in old stable block (containing swallow nests); guide book not offering genuine value for the plantsman; free garden maps.
NTS School of Practical Gardening provides a one year certificated programme (open to all but numbers restricted).
Contact details: www.nts.org.uk
Telephone: 08444932245
Henderson Rating: 3.8/5
Well worth a visit, especially in spring for daffodils and rhododendrons.
Some random pictures
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Some more random photographs...
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Some more random photographs...
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Some more random photographs...
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Thanks, Frazer,
I wondered where you saw the "Einstein's Bench"! I like those slate vases as well.
We may have to investigate this one on our next visit to Scotland ;D
cheers
fermi
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Lovely pics Frazer. Thanks...