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The King's Knot Garden below Stirling Castle. Gardens, as designated spaces for planting, first came to Scotland with Christianity and monasticism from the sixth century. The monastery of Iona had such a garden for medicinal herbs and other plants and tended by an Irish gardener from the time of Columba (521–597). [1]
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction.Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies four sites across Scotland—Edinburgh, Dawyck, Logan and Benmore—each with its own specialist collection.
The gardens at Drummond Castle are listed on the Inventory, as "the best example of formal terraced gardens in Scotland", and are assessed as "outstanding" for four of six values [1] The Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland is a listing of gardens and designed landscapes of national artistic and/or historical significance ...
Achamore Gardens on Gigha; An Cala on Seil; Ardkinglas Estate, Cairndow; Ardnaiseig; Arduaine; Bargullan; Colonsay House gardens; Crarae, run by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) Eckford Gardens; Geilston Garden (formerly in Dunbartonshire) Strachur; Torosay Castle and garden; Younger Botanic Garden Benmore, a Regional Garden of the RBGE ...
Benmore Botanic Garden (formerly known as the Younger Botanic Garden) is a large botanical garden situated in Strath Eachaig at the foot of Beinn Mhòr, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. The gardens are on the west side of the A815 road from Dunoon, between the Holy Loch and Loch Eck, and include footbridges across ...
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 ...
St Andrews Botanic Garden. The St Andrews Botanic Garden is an 18-acre botanical garden in the university town of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. It is located on the banks of the wooded Kinness Burn in the Canongate area, on the southern edge of the town. The gardens are supported by the University of St Andrews and Fife Council, and
The Gardens has a wide variety of temperate and tropical flora, [1] a herb garden, a chronological bed with plants arranged according to their introduction to Scotland, the UK's national collection of tree ferns, [2] and a world rose garden officially opened in 2003 by Princess Tomohito of Mikasa. [3]