It’s New, and it’s very, very old; both the 17th century designed Fingask landscape and the Fingask Long Barrow. Come and see it open on our open days and by email request. The Barrow is a 3 minute walk from the 17th century designed landscape lying in front of the castle, and forming a background of what is now Scotland’s only surrealist garden, where 19th century sculptured literary figures bump into topiary, marble balls, celtic heads and a medieval wishing well. You can approach Fingask, as Bonnie Prince Charlie and his father are said to have done, up the ‘King’s Walk’ to the front of the castle to admire the view of the Carse of Gowrie. A longer walk will take you down to the dell, where a Chinese bridge and medieval wishing well can be discovered, walk over the bridge, follow the path over another bridge, and then up the bridge to another car park. From the car park you can follow signs towards the Fingask lake, and just before the lake turn right up an estate road where the Barrow can be found. Fingask has huge sempervirens and giant redwoods, southern beech, the Champion Bhutan Pine and new grove of fossil trees: Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Wollemi Pine and Ginko.
Champion Trees: Pinus wallichiana (Bhutan Pine), Metasequoia glyptostroboides and the handsome remnants of what was the largest walnut in Scotland

Kirkton Manor House has a delightful, three-acre, informal country garden set in the beautiful Manor Valley. It enjoys spectacular open views and calling curlews from its riverside position. Bluebells flank the impressive entrance leading to a new shrub border. Stone steps continue through to terraced slopes filled with bulbs, roses and hellebores providing height, interest and fragrance. Grass paths meander along the burn where snowdrops, blue and white camassia, meconopsis, and ligularia thrive in this sunny meadow environment. Later, in June, sisyrinchiums, irises, orchids and many flowering shrubs and roses are abundant. The natural woodland includes many interesting trees.

Sited on the edge of Coupar Angus, the wider grounds of Princeland House garden are currently under active renovation and replanting by Mrs Carmichael. There is a wooded area around the drive and entrance with an extended area of beautiful and different snowdrops planted in drifts among mature trees. Strong winds may affect openings.Accommodation can be booked on princelandcottages.co.uk

The extensive gardens at Lochside House are mainly informal with mixed areas of grassland and wooded areas. The RSPB nature reserve bounds the property giving lovely views over Loch Semple. There are several large drifts of snowdrops around the meandering tracks as well as rhododendrons and many mature trees. The garden slopes in many areas, with wooden steps and some log style bridges which could be slippery when wet. Stout footwear and care is essential. The house was acquired in 2025 by the Rokpa Trust to be set up as a Buddhist retreat with exciting development plans. The Shrine Room will be open to visitors.

This smaller-sized garden packs a punch in late winter/early spring with a fine display of hellebores. A collection of over 100 of these beautiful plants has been built up over the last few years and nursery-grown hellebores are constantly being supplemented by plants grown from collected seed. The collection includes hellebores in a wide range of colours in both the single and double forms. Home-grown double whites are a particular favourite. The garden is bordered by trees on its long side which provide a backdrop to the garden and supply the partial shade which hellebores love. Other plantings, including acers, magnolia and rhododendrons, all add to the woodland feel.

Kailzie Gardens sits at the heart of the Tweed Valley just a mile east of Peebles occupying a beautiful position on the River Tweed. At its heart lies the stunning walled garden with plantings of many unusual shrubs, laburnum arches, an enchanting rose garden and spectacular herbaceous borders and one of the best examples of a Mackenzie and Moncur glasshouse still in existence, filled with fuchsias, pelargoniums and exotics. The garden also features prize winning show vegetables. The surrounding woodlands have one of the best laid arboretums in Scotland, with champion trees and specimens (including the oldest larch), providing acres of captivating woodland and burnside walks and spectacular vistas.
Champion Trees: Larch planted 1725

Ecclesgreig Castle, Victorian gothick on a 16th-century core, is undergoing restoration. The castle is thought to be an inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The snowdrop walk, with a variety of snowdrops, starts at the castle, meanders around the estate, along woodland paths and the pond, ending at the garden. In the Italian balustraded gardens, there is a 140-foot-long herbaceous border, classical statues and stunning shaped topiary with views across St Cyrus to the sea. Started from a derelict site, development continues. Also to be found in the grounds is the ancient well of St Cyrus.

Eighteenth-century garden gradually being returned to its former layout. Lawns with mature trees, shrubs, abundant snowdrops and a woodland walk along the valley, formed by 12th-century dams that were originally built to form fish ponds. The valley has been totally cleared in the last couple of years and the burn and snowdrops are now visible from both sides of the valley. Visitors are welcome to return when the daffodils are in flower.

The garden at Stobshiel House is effectively split into four main parts viz., the walled garden, the shrubbery, the pond and lawns and the woodland areas. Each area is laid out and planted to provide the visitor with all year round interest from swathes of aconites, snowdrops and narcissi in spring to a vast array of perennials, roses, clematis and annuals throughout summer and autumn. The extensive collection of shrubs and mature trees offer a fantastic backdrop during all seasons.

Woodland garden of beech trees, carpeted with snowdrops, aconites and crocuses in spring, set around a 1755 house. There is also a walled garden planted with fruit trees and vegetables. The property was owned for many years by Elizabeth and Patrick Allan-Fraser who remodelled Hospitalfield House in Arbroath.

An evolving three-acre garden. The house is surrounded by a series of mixed borders designed with different vibrant colour combinations for effect in all seasons. A ‘no dig’ 160-foot border in shades of white, blue, purple and pale yellow was created in 2019/2020. The most recent addition to the garden is another ‘no dig’ border in shades of peach, burgundy, yellow, chocolate and acid yellow. Visit in March for over 200 hellebores, May for late spring bulbs and flowers, June and July for roses and high summer colour and August for late summer colour. Visitors are welcome to bring their own refreshments and picnic in the garden. A season ticket for all these dates, and by arrangement (available at the garden or online) is £25 and admits the ticket holder plus guest.

Kirkton Manor House has a delightful, three-acre, informal country garden set in the beautiful Manor Valley. It enjoys spectacular open views and calling curlews from its riverside position. Bluebells flank the impressive entrance leading to a new shrub border. Stone steps continue through to terraced slopes filled with bulbs, roses and hellebores providing height, interest and fragrance. Grass paths meander along the burn where snowdrops, blue and white camassia, meconopsis, and ligularia thrive in this sunny meadow environment. Later, in June, sisyrinchiums, irises, orchids and many flowering shrubs and roses are abundant. The natural woodland includes many interesting trees.

Kinblethmont is an historic estate which, with its advantageous elevated position, has been settled since Pictish times. In the centre is the Victorian mansion house surrounded by beautiful policy woodlands where specimen trees and daffodils abound. Paths take you through the woods past the old pet cemetery and to the walled garden with children’s play area. A longer walk will take you up around the solar park with spectacular views over to the Angus hills and the North Sea.

Developed over the last 39 years, this one-acre, plantswoman's garden is home to an eclectic mix of truly hardy perennials, trees and shrubs. Planted for year-round colour and interest and to provide habitats for wildlife, there is something new to see each month. There is a woodland garden, rockery, bog garden, herbaceous borders and much more. Meconopsis grow well here and more are being planted out every year. In addition to the garden, there is a small orchard, wildlife ponds and mown paths through the wildflower meadows and, if you're lucky, you may spot red squirrels.
National Plant Collection: Scilla (Chionodoxa) and Meconopsis (George Sherriff Group & related M.gakyidinia)

Kirklands, built in 1832, has been the Hart family home for 48 years. The walled garden was reinstated from a paddock to include terracing and raised beds. In 2023 we introduced two bee hives. The woodland garden comes into life in February with snowdrops followed by bluebells, hellebores, trilliums, fritillaries, rhododendrons, meconopsis, candelabra primulas and irises. The rockery displays dwarf rhododendrons and azaleas. The herbaceous borders reach their peak in the late summer with bright yellow rudbeckia, verbena and echinacea. Down by the Saline Burn there are 30 species of many-coloured primula and 20 acres of naturally regenerating woodland with a pathway by the stream. To keep the grandchildren occupied, Peter built a tree house, climbing frame and rope swing, though we hope they will take an interest in gardening too!

This one and a quarter acre plantswoman’s garden has a variety of different plant habitats: woodland, dry sunny gravel beds, rock garden, crevice garden and mixed perennial and shrub borders. There is a large productive vegetable garden. The McHales like to grow most of their plants from seed obtained through various international seed exchanges. Expect to see a large number of unusual and exciting plants. The garden is full of colour with an abundance of spring flowers in March, and in late May and early June the meconopsis should be at their best. The gravel garden comes into its own in July and continues through until winter. Hardy cyclamen are a big favourite and a species is in flower in almost every month of the year. The garden has featured on the BBC Beechgrove Garden, in Garden Answers and Scottish Field.

Teasses features beautifully designed drifts of planting, with extensive views to the borrowed landscape beyond, as well as gorgeous spring and summer borders around the greenhouse, where one can sit and enjoy the views and refreshments. A wonderful and romantic setting.Snowdrop Opening: A magical candlelit snowdrop walk. Details are updated as follows: entrance is from 4pm with final admission at 6.30pm. There is a refreshment cafe which will be open until 8pm. The cost is £30 per car with refreshments charged additionally. Booking in advance is essential, car parking spaces are limited so book early to avoid disappointment, booking link details below.Hellebore Opening: Wonderful walks throughout this 60- acre romantic garden with over 150 hellebores planted in clusters throughout the restored Victorian walled garden, formal gardens and decorative woodlands. Early bulbs including thousands of early daffodils carpeting the woodland garden will be in flower too.

MUSIC OF REFLECTIONBel Canto - directed by David Buchanan-Cook - returns to Cleish Parish Church with a popular programme of reflective choral music to mark the approach to Easter. Accompanied by organist Matt Edwards, the main part of the concert will be a performance of Faure's Requiem - one of the most romantic and best-loved choral pieces to emerge from France in the latter years of the 19th Century. The concert will also include much loved and popular motets by Mozart (Ave Verum), Bruckner (Locus Iste); Franck (Panis Angelicus) and two other works by Faure - his setting of Tantum Ergo and the beautiful Cantique de Jean Racine. These will be interspersed with French organ works.

Gardens fit for a castle that was built to entertain royalty and show off the best of craftsmen. A family home still used for entertaining at the centre of an historic country estate just 30 minutes from Edinburgh. A glorious spring display of daffodils and cherry blossom surrounds the castle, interspersed with exceptional examples of fine specimen trees. Take a walk around Sir David’s Loch, the natural woodland area at The Dell and enjoy the beautiful borders of the castle terraces, accessed by gravelled sloping pathways and stone steps.

It’s New, and it’s very, very old; both the 17th century designed Fingask landscape and the Fingask Long Barrow. Come and see it open on our open days and by email request. The Barrow is a 3 minute walk from the 17th century designed landscape lying in front of the castle, and forming a background of what is now Scotland’s only surrealist garden, where 19th century sculptured literary figures bump into topiary, marble balls, celtic heads and a medieval wishing well. You can approach Fingask, as Bonnie Prince Charlie and his father are said to have done, up the ‘King’s Walk’ to the front of the castle to admire the view of the Carse of Gowrie. A longer walk will take you down to the dell, where a Chinese bridge and medieval wishing well can be discovered, walk over the bridge, follow the path over another bridge, and then up the bridge to another car park. From the car park you can follow signs towards the Fingask lake, and just before the lake turn right up an estate road where the Barrow can be found. Fingask has huge sempervirens and giant redwoods, southern beech, the Champion Bhutan Pine and new grove of fossil trees: Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Wollemi Pine and Ginko.
Champion Trees: Pinus wallichiana (Bhutan Pine), Metasequoia glyptostroboides and the handsome remnants of what was the largest walnut in Scotland

Humbie Dean is an informal two-acre ornamental, woodland and vegetable garden on a variety of levels, sandwiched between two burns at 600 feet, developed since 2009. The garden is densely planted for year-round interest, not just from flowers, but foliage, bark and berries. The woodland gorge part of the garden is accessible only by a series of steps.

Millfield is set on the edge of the beautiful and historic village of Falkland. Millfield is opening for hellebores with fine displays throughout the walled garden and along woodland paths. Also in flower early April will be hundreds of naturalized bulbs in the meadows, and other early season delights throughout the gardens and in the greenhouses including pulmonaria, erythronium, primula, hepatica and primula auricula.

Auchmacoy House is set in south-facing grounds with mature trees and rhododendrons. In the spring, the attractive policies feature spectacular displays of thousands of daffodils. Meadow walk, walled garden with ponds & orchard. We do not use chemicals and during the summer months, the garden grows naturally to encourage wild birds, insects and mammals.

Situated four miles south of Dundee, this one-acre Edwardian landscaped garden has panoramic views over the River Tay. Set on a hill, a series of paths meander around ponds and a small stream, rockeries featuring hellebores and low-level planting, a curved lawn and larger borders. Original woodland paths lead to a granite grotto with a waterfall pool. At the rear of the house the vegetable garden features raised beds made from granite sets. The garden is colourful throughout the summer, with many architectural plants accentuating the clever hard landscape design.

Blair Castle's private gardens will be open for visitors - allowing them to walk around the beautiful, landscaped gardens which include a collection of trees dating back to the 18th century. The gardens are continually evolving with a wonderful collection of rhododendrons, magnolias and azaleas. April is a wonderful time to see the gardens.

Impressive five-acre garden with a large collection of mature shrubs, including over 200 rhododendron species, many camellias, magnolias including campbellii, embothriums, leptospermums, olearias, myrtles, telopeas, perennials, over 200 hydrangeas and many other rare Southern Hemisphere plants. The garden has several interesting paths and is on a hillside running along the rocky shore of the Dee Estuary in Kirkcudbright Bay. 

Harlaw is set in a one-acre garden surrounding a typical Berwickshire farmhouse, in a truly rural setting with lovely Border views. The owner has spent many years building up a collection of over 65 varieties of named daffodils and narcissi, naturalised throughout the garden. It has a mature nuttery with several highly productive walnut and hazel trees as well as Gingko biloba, and an orchard with apple, pear and plum trees. In the summer there is a large cutting garden and vegetable patch. There are two greenhouses with a large cactus collection. The garden owner is a keen plantswoman, propagating most of her own stock.

Come and immerse yourself in the magic of Megginch on Sunday 12th April. Wander through the glorious daffodils and into the award-winning orchard. Then back to the conservatory for our famous, home-baked teas. We love having your dogs on leads but let your children run free! Please note that Megginch is a family home and so not open to the public apart from the SGS day on Sunday 12th April.
National Plant Collection: Scottish cider apples, Scottish Heritage apples and pears
Champion Trees: Acer palmatum

This is a long, sloping and terraced garden at over 800 feet in the Braes of Angus, developed to be a garden for all seasons. Half is dominated by bulbs, rhododendrons, azaleas, primulas, meconopsis and clematis. The other half is mainly later summer bulbs, herbaceous plants and roses. There is also a rockery/scree.

A constantly evolving artist’s garden that never stands still, with lots of surprises including a shell house built in 2014, rose parterres, a rill and fountains. At its heart are the plants filling every border, spilling over arches and lining paths, which are the inspiration for Ann’s paintings. The season starts with the snowdrop collection of over 70 cultivars, moves on through hellebores, tulips, irises and roses. One of the garden's features is a mirror steel diamond sculpture to commemorate the Frasers' diamond wedding anniversary.