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3 Southfield Crescent

3 Southfield Crescent

Stirling FK8 2JQ
Mary Menzies McCaig
Sunday 28 April, 1pm - 5pm (2024)
259
maryming@yahoo.com
Re-opening this year, this charming town garden has a variegated privet hedge in the front and behind this there are numerous pots and planters of spring bulbs to see in the beds and borders. The garden has a frog pond and many interesting specimen trees such as acers, magnolia black tulip, Cytisus (pineapple tree), Hoheria (snowdrop tree) and monkey puzzle planted throughout the garden. The sheltered semi-walled garden has raised beds along with a summer house and chicken run.

Directions: Southfield Crescent is close to Stirling's King's Park. From King's Park Road roundabouts, opposite the park gates turn into Drummond Place and Southfield Crescent is 200 yards along on the left, facing the grassy area ahead.

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: CRY 60%
Oakmore

Oakmore

Blairhoyle, Port of Menteith, Stirling FK8 3LF
Rachel Nunn
Sunday 5 May & Sunday 14 July, 11am - 5pm (2024)
1c69
T:07872 068080
In 2014 this garden was a 3½ acre field with a small wood and lots of rushes. Under the hands of a gardening fanatic and her willing husband, you will see a maturing garden with raised herbaceous borders, young orchards, a developing shrubbery, a rose garden, a bog garden and a variety of species trees. This is a garden for real plant enthusiasts and to enjoy it to the full, good footwear is recommended, particularly if it has been raining.

Directions: Blairhoyle is on the Thornhill to Port of Monteith road.

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Radical Weavers 60%
18 Buchany

18 Buchany

Doune FK16 6HG
John and Sarah Burrows
Sunday 12 May & Sunday 21 July, 1pm - 5pm (2024)
2c59
wackwack1@btinternet.com
This is a cottage garden with perennial and fruit tree borders, along with raised beds for vegetables. Extensive use is made of pots and tubs planted with spring bulbs, herbaceous plants, annuals as well as shrubs and vegetables making them more accessible. The owners are well known for showing prize winning vegetables and flowers at flower shows in Stirlingshire. Visit in May and you can see the start of this process and then come back to the second open day in July to see the results of the TLC this garden has had.

Directions: As there is no parking available at the garden, visitors must go to Moray Estate Office FK16 6HG which is situated on the A84, 1.5 miles west of Doune through Buchany towards Callander. Turn into the Estate Office grounds where visitors can take the shuttle bus to the garden.

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: British Heart Foundation 60%
Bridge of Allan Gardens

Bridge of Allan Gardens

Bridge of Allan FK9 4AT
The Gardeners of Bridge of Allan
Sunday 19 May, 1pm - 5pm (2024)
2c6
Bridge of Allan gardens will again feature a selection of larger and smaller gardens. They will highlight various species of rhododendrons and azaleas and many varieties of spring blossoms, plants and flowers. Some have water features showing an interesting variety of plants. One of the gardens features a variety of sculpture, with quirky quotations placed around the garden, while another is divided into ‘rooms’, each having a different theme. The Gardens of Bridge of Allan were featured on Beechgrove last year.

Directions: Gardens will be signposted in the village on the day.

Admission: £6.00, children free
Charities: Artlink Central Ltd 30% & St Saviours Episcopal Church: Bridge Of Allan 30%
Kilbryde Castle

Kilbryde Castle

Dunblane FK15 9NF
Sir James and Lady Campbell
Sunday 26 May, 11am - 5pm (2024)
3c67
T:01786 824897 carolaandjames@googlemail.com
Kilbryde Castle gardens cover some 12 acres and are situated above the Ardoch Burn and below the castle. The gardens are split into three parts: informal, woodland and wild. Natural planting (azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias and magnolias) is found in the woodland garden. There are glorious snowdrops, spring bulbs, and autumn colour provided by clematis and acers.

Directions: Three miles from Dunblane and Doune, off the A820 between Dunblane and Doune. On Scotland’s Gardens Scheme open days the garden is signposted from the A820. 

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Leighton Library Trust 60%
Coldoch

Coldoch

Blairdrummond, Stirling FK9 4XD
David & Kim Stewart and Tim Black
Sunday 2 June, 2pm - 5pm (2024)
67
T:01786 841217
The garden at Coldoch is sheltered by belts of mature woodland on three sides and looks south over the Carse of Stirling. The parterre courtyard garden and border have replaced the old farm buildings and lead on to a kitchen garden created by using the three old walls of an earlier rose garden. The less formal areas include a stream, a pond, paddocks and woodland. The drives are lined with old oaks and sycamores mixed with new trees from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and some fine, mature cherry trees. 

Directions: Signed from the A84. Take the A873 for Aberfoyle, after just under one mile turn left on to Coldoch Road, B8031 and continue for approximately half a mile. Wrought iron gates on the left mark the entrance. 

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Forth Valley Welcome 60%
Thorntree

Thorntree

Arnprior FK8 3EY
Mark and Carol Seymour
Sunday 9 June, 2pm - 5pm (2024)
2c6
T:01786 870710 carolseymour666@gmail.com
In 2024, Thorntree looks forward to welcoming visitors to their garden opening on Sunday 9 June as well as by arrangement on other dates. Carol will happily walk round the garden with you or you can wander on your own. The garden continues to evolve and cotoneasters by the saltire beds have been cut back which means the four flower beds are no longer hidden behind a hedge! Also, the view past the summerhouse can be seen and the Annabelle hydrangea has popped up now that there are fewer branches above it. It is an inspiring garden to visit at any time of the year. From the garden you can see panoramic views from Ben Lomond to Doune, watching the Forth meander down the bottom of the valley.

Directions: On the A811, to Arnprior, then take the Fintry Road; Thorntree is second on the right. 

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Forth Driving Group RDA SCIO 60%
Tiny Farm

Tiny Farm

St Modan's High School, Royal Stuart Way, Stirling FK7 7WS
Alison Poole
Sunday 23 June, 11am - 5pm (2024)
2c69
poolea05s@glow.sch.uk
Tiny farm was created to support learners within the Autism Provision at St Modan's High School. The space is a mixture of raised beds, planted grass and small woodland areas. Learning for sustainability is embedded within the Tiny Farm. Planting is decided by the learners and includes a range of flowers and vegetables. 2023 was a bumper year for the strawberry crops and we will be selling some of our delicious homemade strawberry jam! The Tiny Farm enables our curriculum to come to life, allowing interdisciplinary learning to flourish as learners nurture the plants, harvest them, donate to the community and make products such as jam and soap to sell. The Tiny Farm is opening to showcase what is being undertaken.

Directions: From the A91, take exit off Muirton Roundabout to Holiday Express Inn. At Springkerse roundabout take exit to the Peak. Keep right, and turn right at approach to Forthbank Stadium carpark and follow the road to the car park for St Modan's High School.

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Strathcarron Hospice 60%
Mollan

Mollan

Thornhill, Stirling FK8 3QJ
Iain and Ruth Howieson
Sunday 28 July, 12pm - 4pm (2024)
2c859
Mollan is a large 3 acre garden in rural Stirlingshire set in softly rolling farmland. The garden is designed as a series of smaller interlocking gardens, each with a distinct character, packed with rich, colourful planting, meandering paths, a formal lawn, a wild flower meadow, two ponds and a productive kitchen garden.

Directions: Leaving Thornhill on the A873 towards Aberfoyle, Mollan is on the left hand side a mile outside the village. There are stone pillars and a knee height sign saying Mollan House at the entrance which leads to a tree lined drive.

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Thornhill Primary School 60%
Braehead Community Garden

Braehead Community Garden

Broom Road, Braehead FK7 7GU
Nikki Thomas, Development Officer
Sunday 4 August, 11am - 4pm (2024)
2c59
garden@braehead.org
Braehead Community Garden is an 11,000 square meter outdoor space, offering an array of activities and facilities including 126 micro allotments for hire, a communal toolshed, an apiary producing local honey, a large polytunnel for social events and free-range eggs from our resident chickens. We have a multitude of nectar beds and wild spaces, ensuring we are giving back to our environment and supporting and encouraging local wildlife. Our extensive rain water harvesting system keeps the garden running whilst reducing our carbon footprint. Produce is available for the local community at affordable prices. Come and enjoy home baking and take home fresh produce from the gardens.

Directions: From north on the A9 towards Bannockburn, take the first exit on Linden Avenue leading to Broom Road, turn right and the gardens are on the left. From south, on the A91 turn left on Pike Road leading to Broom Road.

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Braehead, Broomridge & District Community Development Trust 60%
Bannockburn House Gardens

Bannockburn House Gardens

Stirling FK7 8EY
Bannockburn House Trust
Sunday 25 August, 10am - 4pm (2024)
2c69
admin@bannockburnhouse.scot
Bannockburn House, an A-listed mansion built in 1675 by Sir Hugh Paterson, now sits in 26 acres of woodland and gardens. Bonnie Prince Charlie visited in 1746 where he met Clementina Walkinshaw who would become his mistress. Local boy, John McLaren, creator of The Golden Gate Park in San Francisco began his gardening career here in 1860. The house and gardens suffered from 50 years of neglect before coming into community ownership in 2017 with restoration ongoing. Features include an enclosed kitchen garden supplying fruit and vegetables to two local food banks; herb gardens, an orchard, fruit cages, pollinator garden, wisteria border, labyrinth, polytunnels and raised beds. A short woodland walk passes 'The Five Sisters' - our fabulous giant redwood trees; the Fountain Walk passes our veteran lime trees, a cast-iron fountain (built by Steven in 1888 ), and our award-winning Apiary.

Directions: The house entrance is 0.2 miles from the Bannockburn Interchange (M9/Junction 9 roundabout) off the A91. Please car share where possible as parking is limited.

Admission: £7.00, children free
Charities: Bannockburn House Trust 60%
The Japanese Garden at Cowden

The Japanese Garden at Cowden

Dollar, Clackmannanshire FK14 7PL
Cowden Castle SCIO
Open year round. Please check the garden's website for opening days and times. (2024)
6d
sales@cowdengarden.com
Created in 1908, The Japanese Garden at Cowden is listed as an important example of its type in Western Europe. Nestled beneath the Ochil Hills the seven-acre garden wraps around a large pond. Enjoy the meandering walk by the water, taking in the changing scenes created by sculpted landforms, carefully placed stones, clipped shrubs and original stone lanterns. Picnic area, woodland, shop and cafe.

Directions: The entrance to the garden is from the Upper Hillfoots Road, about half a mile west from the junction with the A91. 

Admission: details can be found on the garden's website
Charities: Donation to SGS Beneficiaries
Kilbryde Castle

Kilbryde Castle

Dunblane FK15 9NF
Sir James and Lady Campbell
By arrangement between 1 February - 30 September (2024)
b67
T:01786 824897 carolaandjames@googlemail.com
Kilbryde Castle gardens cover some 12 acres and are situated above the Ardoch Burn and below the castle. The gardens are split into three parts: informal, woodland and wild. Natural planting (azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias and magnolias) is found in the woodland garden. There are glorious snowdrops, spring bulbs, and autumn colour provided by clematis and acers.

Directions: Three miles from Dunblane and Doune, off the A820 between Dunblane and Doune. On Scotland’s Gardens Scheme open days the garden is signposted from the A820. 

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Leighton Library Trust 60%
Gargunnock House Garden

Gargunnock House Garden

Gargunnnock FK8 3AZ
The Gargunnock Trustees
By arrangement between 1 February - 30 September (2024)
b6d7
T:Garden contact: William Campbell 01786 842538 william.campbellwj@btinternet.com
Large mature garden five miles from Stirling, with a walled garden, well-established house garden, woodland walks with species and hybrid rhododendrons, massed plantings of azaleas and wonderful specimen trees. Snowdrops in February/March are followed by over 40 varieties of daffodils and the glorious displays of azaleas and rhododendrons in May. The three-acre walled garden contains perennial borders, cut-flower beds, greenhouses, fruit orchard and newly planted arboretum of specimen trees. The Walled Garden is now used by the charity Green Routes to give gardening education to adults with learning difficulties.

Directions: Five miles west of Stirling on the A811. Car parking is at the entrance by the lodge.

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Rhododendron Species Conservation Group 60%
Duntreath Castle

Duntreath Castle

Blanefield G63 9AJ
Sir Archibald and Lady Edmonstone
By arrangement between 1 February - 30 September (2024)
b5d7
T:01360 770215 juliet@edmonstone.com
Extensive gardens with mature and new plantings. Ornamental landscaped lake and bog garden. Sweeping lawns below formal fountain and rose parterre with an herbaceous border leading up to an attractive waterfall garden. Swathes of yellow daffodils and other colourful spring bulbs together with rhododendrons and many other ornamental shrubs surround the formal lawns. There is also a woodland walk. The garden has horticultural interest throughout the year and enjoys superb autumn colours.

Directions: A81 north of Glasgow between Blanefield and Killearn. 

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: All proceeds to SGS Beneficiaries
Milseybank

Milseybank

Bridge of Allan FK9 4NB
Murray and Sheila Airth
By arrangement between 1 May - 31 May (2024)
45a7
T:07799036367 smairth@hotmail.com
Wonderful and interesting sloping garden with outstanding views, terraced for ease of access. Woodland with bluebells, rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias, and many other unusual plants, including a big variety of meconopsis. This is a true plantsman's garden with quiet corners to sit, admire and reflect. A garden to inspire you and give you ideas to take home.
National Plant Collection: Meconopsis

Directions: Situated on the A9, one mile from junction 11, M9 and ¼ of a mile from Bridge of Allan. Milseybank is at the top of the lane at Lecropt Nursery, 250 yards from the Bridge of Allan train station.

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Strathcarron Hospice 60%
Thorntree

Thorntree

Arnprior FK8 3EY
Mark and Carol Seymour
By arrangement between 1 May - 1 September (2024)
c6
T:01786 870710 carolseymour666@gmail.com
In 2024, Thorntree looks forward to welcoming visitors to their garden opening on Sunday 9 June as well as by arrangement on other dates. Carol will happily walk round the garden with you or you can wander on your own. The garden continues to evolve and cotoneasters by the saltire beds have been cut back which means the four flower beds are no longer hidden behind a hedge! Also, the view past the summerhouse can be seen and the Annabelle hydrangea has popped up now that there are fewer branches above it. It is an inspiring garden to visit at any time of the year. From the garden you can see panoramic views from Ben Lomond to Doune, watching the Forth meander down the bottom of the valley.

Directions: On the A811, to Arnprior, then take the Fintry Road; Thorntree is second on the right. 

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Forth Driving Group RDA SCIO 60%
Arndean

Arndean

by Dollar FK14 7NH
Johnny and Katie Stewart
By arrangement between 6 May - 7 June (2024)
57
T:07940530499 johnny@arndean.co.uk
Opening for more than 40 years, this is a beautiful mature garden extending to 15 acres including the woodland walk. There is a formal herbaceous part, a small vegetable garden and an orchard. In addition, there are flowering shrubs, abundant and striking rhododendrons and azaleas as well as many fine specimen trees. There is a tree house for children. 

Directions: Arndean is well signposted off the A977. 

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Marie Curie 60%
St Blane's House

St Blane's House

High Street, Dunblane FK15 0ER
Guy and Maud Crawford
By arrangement between 6 May - 28 June (2024)
6
maud.crawford@btinternet.com
This is a well-established two-acre garden with a wide variety of trees, rhododendrons, azaleas and other shrubs and herbaceous perennials. There is a short walk through a wooded area.

Directions: St Blanes House is almost directly opposite Dunblane Library.

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: Strathcarron Hospice 60%
Gardener's Cottage Walled Garden

Gardener's Cottage Walled Garden

Ballochruin Road, Killearn G63 9QB
Morna Knottenbelt
By arrangement between 15 June - 15 October (2024)
T:01360 551682 mornaknottenbelt@hotmail.com
The walled garden, acquired in 2013 by the present owners, has been planted with extensive herbaceous borders, box hedging, roses and many unusual plants. There is a White Garden, a long shrub border with primulas and gentians and a former fernery with a collection of salvias and peach and pear trees. June is a good time to visit when the roses are in bloom and borders with lupins, peonies and other perennials are in flower. By late summer, the borders have argyranthemums as well as dahlias, Michaelmas daisies, rudbeckias and blue aconitums. The Celtic Cross Garden was planted in May 2021 with a range of new plants including echinaceas, cardoons, lobelias, anthemis and lavender for mid to late summer colour. There are fine views of the Campsie Hills and the garden is surrounded by the conifers of the Designed Landscape of Carbeth. 

Directions: Follow Sat Nav to G63 0LF, which is Carbeth Home Farm. We are the next entrance below the farm. Turn left on to the gravel road and follow yellow SGS signs. 

Admission: £5.00, children free
Charities: The British Horse Society: Scotland 60%