Scotland's Gardens Scheme

17/06/2026

🪴🆕💚🌼 NEW OPEN GARDEN 🐞🌺🌿🆕

Tucked behind a house at the centre of the village of St Margaret's Hope, you will find the Orkney Apothecary Garden… each plant a familiar companion and herbal ally.

💚With a circular path at its heart, just wide enough for slow footsteps and a basket on your arm, beds of calendula, yarrow, plantain, rose, mint, and lemon balm grow amongst nettles, clover and other wildflowers.
💚 In this wild sanctuary, we are encouraged to take things slow, and repair.
💚 Demonstration of herbal tea making with tasters.

📒Saturday 20 June, 1pm - 5pm
🎟️Admission by donation.
💛Nominated charity: Mesothelioma UK 60%.

🚫Not suitable for dogs or other animals or for young children due to medicinal plants.
📍 The X1 bus stops directly outside Robertsons Cafe, opposite Doulls shop. From here, head down Church Road towards the sea, to the crossroads. The house is on the corner of Back Road and Church Road. Entry to the garden is via a green wooden gate on Back Road.

✴️Booking advised - see link in comments

16/06/2026

🌸 💥 💛 POP UP GARDEN OPENING 🌼 💥 💚

Keep Scotland Beautiful's Pocket Garden Competition 2026

10 DROPS GARDEN, Thornhill DG3 4BJ

📒Thursday 18 June, 2pm - 3pm
🎟️Admission by donation.
💛Nominated charity: Penpont Primary School: 100% to outdoor equipment fund 60%.

🌿Visitors are invited to come and see the pupils' work and help them to raise funds for their school's outdoor learning equipment.
🌿Our pocket garden is designed to collect water and give it to the plants that need it most. Its main themes are: water, wildlife and planting for biodiversity. We hope you will love it!
🌿Penpont Primary are taking part in the pocket garden this year having been involved last year in growing bulbs for the Downs Syndrome Scotland garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, which won the People’s Choice Award.

📍Use the side entrance of the school, through the green gate.

16/06/2026

💥 We have a wonderful POP-UP OPENING for you this weekend 💥

📒EASTER LAGGAN, Dulnain Bridge, Grantown-on-Spey on Saturday 20 June, 12pm - 5pm

🌿Come and explore the beautiful five acre gardens, a tranquil retreat with breathtaking views of the Cairngorm Mountains.
🌿Wander through mature woodland alive with birdsong, red squirrels and a diverse array of wildlife.
🌿The gardens offer something for every visitor to enjoy, from formal lawns with colourful herbaceous borders, an alpine rockery garden to more wild areas with native flowers.
🌿A Scottish inspired Japanese garden complete with a natural pond and a gentle burn that cascades through the landscape providing the soothing sound of flowing water.

🎟️Admission £5.00, children free.
💛Nominated charity: Parkinson's UK 60%.
🎨 Crafts for sale
🪴Plants for sale
🐕‍🦺Dogs on leads welcome

📍 From Grantown on Spey head south on the A95. Take the turning signed to Dulnain Bridge. Turn immediately right on to the old road, then immediately left up the track. The house and garden are at the top of the track. Parking available in the grounds. From Aviemore take the A95 towards Grantown on Spey. Go past the first turning signed to Dulnain Bridge and take the second signed turning. Then turn immediately right on to the old road and immediately left up the track. The house and garden are at the top of the track. Parking available in the grounds.

16/06/2026

Come and enjoy a meander around the garden at CONGALTON HOUSE, North Berwick on Friday & Saturday, 19 & 20 June, 11am - 5pm when you can experience attractions such as the rose beds and peonies which are at their best in June, a sunken garden and a rockery. The woodland garden, which was planted about 15 years ago, is now beginning to mature.

🎟️Admission £6.00, children free.
💛Nominated charity: Camphill Blair Drummond 60%.
🫖teas
🐕‍🦺Dogs on leads welcome

📍 On the B1347 between Haddington and North Berwick.

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15/06/2026

With extensive views southwards towards the Lammermuirs, the 3 acre site at BLACKDYKES GARDEN, North Berwick has a formal heart of garden rooms, surrounded by informal abundance which is a joy to experience.

📒Come along and enjoy on Friday & Saturday, 19 & 20 June, 11am - 5pm
🎟️Admission £6.00, children free.
💛Nominated charity: Leuchie 60%.

📍 EH39 5PQ Leave North Berwick on the A198 towards Dunbar. Half a mile after Tesco, turn right at Rhodes Holdings. After one mile you will arrive at Blackdykes.

📷©️Delia Ridley-Thomas & Sir Hew Dalrymple

15/06/2026

15/06/2026

💡 Such a clever repurposing of an unwanted area…

The owners of BARLOCKHART LODGE, Glenluce have reclaimed a riding manege as part of their garden, transforming it with meandering paths around borders planted with perennials and grasses to reflect the local undulating landscape.

📒Open Thursday 18 June, Tuesday 14 July & Thursday 6 August, 11am - 3pm
🎟️Admission £5.00, children free.
💛Nominated charity: Port William Inshore Rescue Service 60%.
🫖🍰Homemade teas
🪴Plants for sale
📒Also By arrangement 1 June - 31 August

📍 Take the A75 to Glenluce. On the hill which links the two Glenluce turnoffs, take the single-track unmarked lane, signposted for Whithorn Way. Property is roughly one mile along the lane, on the left.

🅿️There is plenty of off-road parking. Please do not park on the lane

14/06/2026

🌺🙍‍♀️🌿💛 👁️ 👁️ LAST CHANCE TO SEE 👁️ 👁️ 💛🌿🙍‍♂️🌺

The Stockbridge Gardens trail will be open on June 21st for the VERY LAST TIME

It will no longer be available after this year - don’t miss it!

Sunday 21st from noon to 4:30pm.

Come and see…
🌺 Helen’s extraordinary floral paradise she calls Survival of the Fittest;
🌸 Philip’s expert collection of cacti with their dramatic and rarely seen flowers;
🌵 the Farrar’s Cactus House art works;
🌿 Pixie’s peaceful idyll Behind the Green Door;
🐦‍⬛ Catriona’s wild life sanctuary on her tiny and nearly vertical drying green;
🌼 Julie’s dense organic courtyard with Plants for All Seasons;
🪴 Mandy’s award-winning Pots of Pots garden
🌹 the Hidden Garden shared by the neighbours of historic Duncan’s Land.

🎟️Admission £9.00, children free.
💛Nominated charity: Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF 30% & Shelter Scotland 30%.
🗺️ Tickets and route maps available at Logie Green Gardens and Circus Place. Plants for sale at Logie Green Gardens.

📍 Garden trail runs between Logie Green Gardens EH7 4HE and Circus Place EH3 6TP

🚌 Buses 23 and 27 to Dundas Street, Canonmills, no. 8 to Rodney Street, Canonmills, no. 36 to Hamilton Place and Broughton Road, no. 29 to Royal Circus.

14/06/2026

THE OLD MANSE, Sandhead, Stranraer is a plant lovers paradise, and you can enjoy this half acre garden By Arrangement from 1 June - 30 September.

🌿The garden is surrounded by stone walls and features a natural burn, two bridges, a Japanese inspired slope border, a formal parterre, a rose garden, yew hedge, rockery and a shady woodland area.
🌿The Old Manse is close to Logan Botanic Gardens and enjoys the same temperate climate making a range of unusual and interesting planting possible.

🎟️Admission £5.00, children free.
💛Nominated charity: Board Of Trustees Of The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 60%.

📍 DG9 9JT From Stranraer take the A716 south following signs for Drummore; past Sandhead, look for a brown tourist sign for Kirkmadrine Stones and Clachanmore and turn immediately right. The Old Manse is on the corner on the right (known locally as Doctors’ Corner’).
🚌A bus service is available from Stranraer and stops at Doctors’ Corner.