Gardens
Inveraray may open in winter as guests return
INVERARAY Castle may open in November and December for the first time if there’s enough demand after the Argyll landmark welcomed its first visitors of the year. The castle and its gardens reopened last month, with the first 200 guests receiving free tablet. The site intends to open from Thursdays to Mondays until the end…
Read MoreGardens, museums and attractions reopening
MORE and more museums, galleries, gardens and other tourist attractions are reopening throughout Scotland as the nation continues to bounce back from the coronavirus lockdown. National Museums Scotland this morning announced that five of its sites will reopen in the coming weeks. The National Museum of Flight near North Berwick will open on 5 August,…
Read MorePerth’s pop-up flower market opens today
A GROUP of growers from Perthshire and Fife will hold their first pop-up flower market at Giraffe Laidside in Perth today. Today’s market will be open to florists from 9.30am to 10.30am and then to members of the public from 11.30am to 12.30pm. Adelaide Menzies, a florist and flower farmer from Adelaide’s Secret Garden, will…
Read MoreNTS gardens springing back into action
THE National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is preparing to reopen around 30 of its gardens from 6 July. Culzean Country Park in Ayrshire, Brodie Castle’s garden and estate in Moray, and Crathes Castle’s garden and estate in Aberdeenshire are among the properties that will begin welcoming back guests. The trust’s countryside sites, including St Abb’s…
Read MoreVisitors return to Scotland’s four royal botanic gardens
DETAILS of the reopening of Scotland’s four royal botanic gardens will be unveiled on Wednesday, including how to pre-book tickets to enter the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. All four gardens – at Benmore in Argyll, Dawyck in the Borders, Edinburgh, and Logan in Galloway – will reopen on 1 July. Visitors will need to book…
Read MoreGlasgow artists turn tattie display into community food project
ARTISTS Angus Farquhar and Rudy Kanhye have turned what was intended as a display at the SWG3 complex in Glasgow into a community food project. As part of “An Empty Gunny Bag Cannot Stand”, 120 brightly-coloured hessian sacks have been distributed around the area, allowing households to grow potatoes on their doorsteps. The bilingual title…
Read MoreHive of activity as World Bee Day takes flight
Perthshire is all abuzz for World Bee Day, with Kinross-based Webster Honey placing more than 100 new hives at sites including Crieff, Dunning and the Strathallan Estate. As well as producing honey, the hives will be used in beekeeping workshops for schools and nurseries once they reopen, and to give businesses sponsorship opportunities. Meik Molitor,…
Read MoreWin a tour of the Castle of Mey gardens with Alan Titchmarsh
A chance to spend two nights at the Castle of Mey and be given a personal tour by Alan Titchmarsh of the garden created by Her Majesty the Queen Mother is one of the prize lots in Bonhams’ online blue auction in aid of the NHS Charities Covid-19 Urgent Appeal. Some of the UK’s leading…
Read MoreGarden of plenty
With the lockdown meaning that people are spending ever more time in their gardens, Ed Walling, the head gardener at the National Trust for Scotland property of Brodie Castle in Morayshire, has compiled two how-to videos. In the first Ed takes viewers behind the scenes around the historic Morayshire estate and gives viewers a guide…
Read MoreFairy Glen acquired by Woodland Trust Scotland
Woodland Trust Scotland has purchased a favourite summer picnic spot of Andrew Carnegie. The millionaire industrialist and philanthropist bought the Skibo Estate, and its Ledmore and Migdale woods in 1897 and would return with his family to spend summer holidays until the outbreak of the First World War. The Carnegies named their favourite woodland walk…
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