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.

Edzell Castle: Historic home of the Lindsay Family with gardens dating back to 1604 featuring fine summer colour, tower house and summer house in the grounds. The red sandstone castle walls, set amid pleasant green parkland, make an attractive setting.

12 Union Street: Walled garden with roses and ancient apple trees.

North Lodge: North Lodge was designed by James Salmon in the Arts & Crafts style and built as a summer home in 1906. The current garden is predominantly a semi-evergreen woodland garden, full of mature trees and shrubs, a good backdrop for climbers and herbaceous perennials. With numerous flowering azaleas, rhododendrons and spring bulbs, the garden also has a Japanese element to it. Pots of acers and bamboo thrive within the protected walled environment, ferns share a shady area, and a still pond reflects both the sky and plants around it. Our current focus is on increasing the wildlife elements; the pond is loved by birds and a bed of plants specifically chosen for pollinators has proved very successful.

Westwater House: Formerly home to the Dalhousie Estates factor, dating from the mid-19th century, the gardens had been neglected for many years when the current owners acquired the property in 1987. Since then, the walled garden has been reconfigured, ponds created, hedges planted, lawns relaid and dykes built. In spring the policies are carpeted with snowdrops, aconites, scilla, bluebells and daffodils, followed by flowering azaleas, rhododendrons and magnolia in a woodland setting. Fruit trees blossom in the orchard. As summer progresses waterlilies flourish in the ponds, abundant old-fashioned roses bloom and the herbaceous beds in the walled garden put on a show.

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