Definately a work in progress 1 out of 5
Very little to see except Apple trees , vegetables, 3 rows of flowers and a lot of weeds. Not like the web site pictures. Really disappointed not worth the 12 pounds entrance fee for the two of us.
2 weeks ago.
Hi .... , (I've block out miss Dulls Ville name to protect her stupid and sad opinions of this amazing garden)
We’re very sorry to hear that you didn’t enjoy your visit to our walled garden, we take a lot of pride in our work and never like to leave our visitors disappointed. We’re a little confused that you only noticed three of the 20 cut flower beds, we grow more 60 varieties of cut flowers many of which are in full bloom at the moment, including over 50 metres of colourful and scented sweet peas. We also have two 80 metre long flower borders running down the middle of the garden that has hundreds of salvia, poppies, lupins, cornflower, and larkspur all flowering their socks off.
Apples aren’t the only fruit trees in the garden (we have about 300 trained apple trees including 30 Scottish varieties) we also have about 100 mature espalier plums, gages, figs, pears, peaches, cherries and some of the oldest apricot trees in Scotland.
Because we are by nature a productive kitchen garden we do indeed grow a lot of vegetables of all varieties but if that’s not your thing it may have been worth taking a look at the 3000 lavender plants around the pond in the centre of the garden, they’ve been in full bloom for about 3 weeks and are fragrant and beautiful at the moment. Failing that out 150 year-old greenhouse may be of some interest, or the two huge herb beds covering about 800 square metres, or the wildflower meadow.
Whilst we’d love to open that garden for free in order to keep the project running we do have to charge entry but we don’t make any profit from ticket fees, all the proceeds go back into the garden and pay the wages of our 5 hard working gardeners, as you can imagine restoring a 7 acre 200 year-old garden is a very expensive business!
As you say we are a work in progress and there are still some areas of the garden yet to be developed. This winter we aiming to complete the 1 acre soft fruit area and plant up another 100 step-over trained apple trees. So please bear with us, the garden will be completed soon!
Most of our visitors seem very happy to pay the £6 entry fee (children can visit for free) but we do open our gates for free to celebrate the birthday of the restoration project every year, it’s this weekend on Saturday the 7th. We’d be very happy to show you round the garden explain the project further if you’d like.
Slam dunked response ...
Always turn a negative trip adviser review into a add, well done Zara and her team
We’re very sorry to hear that you didn’t enjoy your visit to our walled garden, we take a lot of pride in our work and never like to leave our visitors disappointed. We’re a little confused that you only noticed three of the 20 cut flower beds, we grow more 60 varieties of cut flowers many of which are in full bloom at the moment, including over 50 metres of colourful and scented sweet peas. We also have two 80 metre long flower borders running down the middle of the garden that has hundreds of salvia, poppies, lupins, cornflower, and larkspur all flowering their socks off.
Apples aren’t the only fruit trees in the garden (we have about 300 trained apple trees including 30 Scottish varieties) we also have about 100 mature espalier plums, gages, figs, pears, peaches, cherries and some of the oldest apricot trees in Scotland.
Because we are by nature a productive kitchen garden we do indeed grow a lot of vegetables of all varieties but if that’s not your thing it may have been worth taking a look at the 3000 lavender plants around the pond in the centre of the garden, they’ve been in full bloom for about 3 weeks and are fragrant and beautiful at the moment. Failing that out 150 year-old greenhouse may be of some interest, or the two huge herb beds covering about 800 square metres, or the wildflower meadow.
Whilst we’d love to open that garden for free in order to keep the project running we do have to charge entry but we don’t make any profit from ticket fees, all the proceeds go back into the garden and pay the wages of our 5 hard working gardeners, as you can imagine restoring a 7 acre 200 year-old garden is a very expensive business!
As you say we are a work in progress and there are still some areas of the garden yet to be developed. This winter we aiming to complete the 1 acre soft fruit area and plant up another 100 step-over trained apple trees. So please bear with us, the garden will be completed soon!
Most of our visitors seem very happy to pay the £6 entry fee (children can visit for free) but we do open our gates for free to celebrate the birthday of the restoration project every year, it’s this weekend on Saturday the 7th. We’d be very happy to show you round the garden explain the project further if you’d like.
Slam dunked response ...
Always turn a negative trip adviser review into a add, well done Zara and her team
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