Fingask Castle

Description: 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