Scotland’s Gardens Scheme was founded in 1931 to raise money for the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland, to help support the Queen’s Nurses, before the creation of the National Health Service.

The charity raises funds for hundreds of charities each year, powered by amazing teams of volunteers and garden owners around Scotland, through garden gate tickets, plants sales and teas.

Ashludie Wildflower Garden: A striking, small garden consisting predominantly of native wildflowers. Dedicated to attracting wildlife and helping to replace our lost meadows. A homemade bee hotel, a small pond and about 40 types of wildflower aim to attract bees, butterflies, birds and other creatures.

Nectar and pollen-rich “classic” wildflowers include greater knapweed, viper’s bugloss, Valerian and musk mallow. The small front garden has plants to provide pollen for our earlier emerging pollinators. Plant stall includes garden-collected seed.

St Bedes Garden: St Bedes is a small, urban, plant-lover’s garden on a steep slope and enclosed by stone walls. Its design reflects the distant monastic history of the site and it integrates an ecology of native and non-native drought-tolerant trees, grasses and perennials suited to the dry sandy soil of its coastal location.

Over the last 17 years, the site has been extensively landscaped incorporating a series of terraces and rooms connected by a winding central path and stairs. Inspired by prairie-style planting and using a matrix ecology, the garden has year-round colour, texture and formal interest, with many unusual and rare bulbs, herbaceous perennials and trees. An Arbutus menziesii is a central focus of the main space.

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