Threave Garden: lawn, borders, and Threave House
Looking towards Threave House, in Threave Garden (Dumfries and Galloway, in southwestern Scotland), on an afternoon of mixed sunshine and cloud at the beginning of June 2022. Along the lawn, rhododendrons and azaleas are still in bloom.
Threave Garden & Estate have been in the care of the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) since 1957. Established in 1960, the Trust’s noted School of Heritage Gardening provides intensive education and training in horticulture. It is located in Threave House, a red sandstone Victorian mansion that was designed in 1871 in the “Scottish Baronial” style (by architects John Dick Peddie and Charles Kinnear) and built for William Gordon and his family.
The talented students’ work is revealed in the widely varying garden sections or “rooms”; examples include the woodland garden, walled garden, arboretum, pond garden, and rockery, as well as the more recent Garden of Contemplation. Both over the seasons and through the years, Threave Garden continually changes, a development attested to by fellow visitors in 2022 as well as by our own experience – we had first visited Threave Garden in 1994 and were struck this time by the newer features.
The Threave Garden & Estate land is located in Kirkcudbrightshire (a county until 1975, now a lieutenancy area), near the town of Castle Douglas.
(Information from Threave Garden & Estate (the official NTS guidebook, ©2021) and the National Trust for Scotland website, last consulted 26 July 2022.)
[Threave Garden 35 lawn House sun 2022-06-01 f; DSCF0682]
Threave Garden: lawn, borders, and Threave House
Looking towards Threave House, in Threave Garden (Dumfries and Galloway, in southwestern Scotland), on an afternoon of mixed sunshine and cloud at the beginning of June 2022. Along the lawn, rhododendrons and azaleas are still in bloom.
Threave Garden & Estate have been in the care of the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) since 1957. Established in 1960, the Trust’s noted School of Heritage Gardening provides intensive education and training in horticulture. It is located in Threave House, a red sandstone Victorian mansion that was designed in 1871 in the “Scottish Baronial” style (by architects John Dick Peddie and Charles Kinnear) and built for William Gordon and his family.
The talented students’ work is revealed in the widely varying garden sections or “rooms”; examples include the woodland garden, walled garden, arboretum, pond garden, and rockery, as well as the more recent Garden of Contemplation. Both over the seasons and through the years, Threave Garden continually changes, a development attested to by fellow visitors in 2022 as well as by our own experience – we had first visited Threave Garden in 1994 and were struck this time by the newer features.
The Threave Garden & Estate land is located in Kirkcudbrightshire (a county until 1975, now a lieutenancy area), near the town of Castle Douglas.
(Information from Threave Garden & Estate (the official NTS guidebook, ©2021) and the National Trust for Scotland website, last consulted 26 July 2022.)
[Threave Garden 35 lawn House sun 2022-06-01 f; DSCF0682]