Please help our Garden Owners by bringing CASH to our open days. If you can’t attend the opening but still want to support our charity, we welcome donations HERE.

Dougarie

Isle of Arran KA27 8EB
Mrs S C Gibbs
laviniawgibbs@gmail.com
Current Openings:
By arrangement 1 January - 31 December (2025)
Admission £5.00, children free.
Nominated charity: Pirnmill Village Association 60%.
Sunday 29 June, 2pm - 5pm (2025)
Admission £5.00, children free.
Nominated charity: Pirnmill Village Association 60%.
Tuesday 1 July, 2pm - 5pm (2025)
The opening date has been changed to Sunday 29 June
Admission £5.00, children free.
Nominated charity: Pirnmill Village Association 60%.
Description: Most interesting terraced garden in a castellated folly built in 1905 to celebrate the marriage of the 12th Duke of Hamilton’s only child to the Duke of Montrose. Good selection of tender and rare shrubs and herbaceous border. Small woodland area with trees including azara, abutilon, eucryphia, hoheria and nothofagus.

Directions: Five miles from Blackwaterfoot. Regular ferry sailing from Ardrossan and Claonaig (Argyll). Information from Caledonian MacBrayne, Gourock, T: 01475 650100. Parking is free.

Other details: Cream teas will be served in the 19th century boat house. Cash payments only. There is free parking.

The listing location on a map.