Fife Summer Trail - Day One, North East Fife Gardens - Friday 22 May
Our first day of the Fife Summer Trail features North East Fife, with its rural, scenic landscapes, rolling hills, fertile farmland and scenic views. A lovely start to our Fife explorations!
Straiton Farmhouse, South Straiton, St Andrews, KY16 0BN Barbara Pickard - 11am-1pm and 3pm-5pm
Teas available!
From Cupar enter Balmullo via A914 from Dairsie, pass the phone box and shop, leave the village and take the second exit left on a sharp right hand bend. From Dundee approach Balmullo on A914, go under the railway bridge and take the second right, signposted Lucklawhill. At the T junction, turn right and follow road straight on past the telephone box and down the hill to the farm visible in the distance. If using a sat nav please ignore if directions are given to Logie and down the quarry road as it is disused and unsafe. You should approach Straiton from St Michael’s or Dairsie and Balmullo.
Discover a beautiful valley and a big variety of herbaceous, shrubs, trilliums and tree peonies.
Harthill, Reediehill Deer Farm, Auchtermuchty, KY14 7HS. What3words: ///meaty.look.storage
Nichola and John Fletcher - 1pm–7pm
Harthill is 13 years old and offers three aspects: fruit and vegetable growing – a few in unconventional ways; a more traditional garden including meconopsis; and two wild areas with a small woodland and many young specimen trees, including dozens of species of sorbus. We will have plants for sale and tea and cake if wished.
South Flisk, Blebo Craigs, KY15 5UQ, Julia Young - 11am-5pm
A big garden with spectacular views and a huge flooded quarry full of fish and water lilies. May is the best month to visit the garden as there is a wealth of woodland plants like trilliums, camassias, astilboides as well as some beautiful tulips with a background of magnificent rhododendrons.
Gilston, by Largoward, Leven KY8 5QP, Cath and Edward Baxter -11am-7pm
Gilston House and Estate is just off the A915 St Andrews Road, between Largoward and Wester Newburn.
A wonderful garden offering azaleas and rhododendrons at their finest, with perennial borders and woodland and pond walks. Feel free to bring a picnic whilst tea and coffee will be provided.
