Scotland’s Gardens Scheme Open Garden: Gilston House
Gilston House has a large garden with mixed borders and mature trees in a beautiful park, walled garden, pond and far reaching views.
About Scotland’s Gardens Scheme Open Garden: Gilston House
Large garden with mixed borders and mature trees in a beautiful park with wild flower meadow and woodland surrounding an early 19th-century house. Older, established, well-loved shrubs sit with abundant new planting of trees and perennials. Pink birches stand with sorbus pink pagoda above our attempt at matrix planting of grasses, foxgloves and verbascums. Acid-loving plants thrive here too with meconopsis on repeat throughout our deep borders which can be admired from a seat close by. Lots of startlingly bright azaleas. Enjoy your tea on the main terrace by our house alongside the central rectangle of catmint, wild swan anemones and sedums with their beautiful dusty dark purple leaves. Beyond the borders around the house, two different directions; a walled garden where Hebridean sheep graze, a Victorian pond cleared and reconfigured (inspired by Charles Jenks) but really work in progress! A short walk through the woods will take you to our pond (used for curling) and with an 1899 boathouse recently restored; the edges around planted with bulbs and wet-loving plants. Far reaching views everywhere.
Directions: 15 mins by car from St Andrews on A915 (buses from Leven and St Andrews request stop) one hour north of Edinburgh.
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