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Monifieth Secret Gardens

Monifieth DD5 4RD
Neil Burford, Scott & Barbara Lindsay
T:07791851845 or 07874058963 n.k.burford@gmail.com or wl011b2275@btinternet.com
Current Openings:
Sunday 31 May, Saturday 27 June & Sunday 19 July, 11am - 4pm (2026)
Admission £8.00, children free.
Nominated charity: Re-Engage Ltd 30% & The Monifieth Befrienders 30%.
Description:
Ashludie Wildflower Garden 10 Margaret Lindsay Place, Monifieth DD5 4RD (Scott and Barbara Lindsay): Striking, small garden consisting predominantly of native wildflowers. Dedicated to attracting wildlife and helping to replace our lost meadows. A homemade bee hotel, a small pond and about 40 types of wildflower aim to attract bees, butterflies, birds and other creatures. Nectar and pollen-rich "classic" wildflowers include greater knapweed, viper's bugloss, Valerian and musk mallow. The small front garden has plants to provide pollen for our earlier emerging pollinators. Plant stall includes garden-collected seed.
St Bedes Garden 6 Ferry Road, Monifieth DD5 4NT (Neil Burford): St Bedes is a small, urban, plant-lover's garden on a steep slope and enclosed by stone walls. Its design reflects the distant monastic history of the site and it integrates an ecology of native and non-native drought-tolerant trees, grasses and perennials suited to the dry sandy soil of its coastal location. Over the last 17 years, the site has been extensively landscaped incorporating a series of terraces and rooms connected by a winding central path and stairs. Inspired by prairie-style planting and using a matrix ecology, the garden has year-round colour, texture and formal interest, with many unusual and rare bulbs, herbaceous perennials and trees. An Arbutus menziesii is a central focus of the main space.

Directions: Ashludie Wildflower Garden: various bus number 73s from Arbroath or Dundee to Monifieth Tesco. Walk up North Union Street and then Victoria Street to the garden - about 15 minutes. Or bus 72 to Dobbies - about 15 minutes walk to the garden. Please check the timetable for buses (various number 74s) to Ashludie Hospital and then a 2-minute walk to the garden. St Bedes: Coming from Dundee, the house is 50 yards before the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Albert Street, 500 yards west of Monifieth centre on the north side of Ferry Road. Buses 73, 73A from Dundee and Carnoustie stop near the house.

Other details: Both gardens are easily accessible from the centre of Monifieth where there is adequate public parking and a railway station. National Cycle Route 1 passes though Monifieth between Dundee and Arbroath. The gardens are a 15 min walk between each other. The price includes entry to both gardens and teas are available at both.

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