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After remaining in the family for centuries, the Dunmore Estate was broken up in 1970 and sold in lots. One lot, called the "Pineapple Lot", included the folly and the large walled garden, along with some woodlands and a small lake. This lot was purchased by the Countess of Perth, who in 1974 gifted it to the National Trust for Scotland. [10]
The walled garden of Edzell Castle, Scotland, survives from the early seventeenth century.. A walled garden is a garden enclosed by high walls, especially when this is done for horticultural rather than security purposes, although originally all gardens may have been enclosed for protection from animal or human intruders.
Drumkilbo, including the walled garden, is a category B listed building. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The house itself is mid 19th century Georgian with a 13th-century stone spiral staircase at its core. Additions were made in 1920 to designs by Sir Robert Lorimer . [ 4 ]
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type." [1]
The property had a walled garden which survives as a ruin (2025) and a cemetery garden which remains in fair condition; the old Scottish unit of land measurement called a "fall" is recorded in the inscription. The last Campbell to live at the estate was W. G. Campbell and from the 1860s the property was run by trustees.
The garden is open to members and paying visitors and consist of a 3-acre (12,000 m 2) walled garden set in approximately nine acres of woodland. [ 8 ] [ 4 ] [ 9 ] The gardens feature four 100-year-old yew trees known as the Four Apostles and was home to Scotland's National Bonsai Collection, which left around 2000 and is now located at Binny ...
Cousland Village Hall. Cousland is a village in Midlothian, Scotland. It is located 4 ... It stands at the north-east corner of a walled garden area, 68 metres (223 ...
A 1.2-acre (0.49 ha) walled garden on the hill's western slopes. Originally belonging to Hillwood House, it has been in council ownership since 1927. It had become disused and overgrown, but has now been restored by volunteers from the Friends of Corstorphine Hill. In 2001 and 2004, it was featured on BBC Scotland's The Beechgrove Garden. [10] [11]