Monteviot House and Gardens
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Overview
Monteviot Gardens has a number of distinct interconnecting areas of innovative designs and ideas. The River Garden, designed by Percy Cane, has sweeping lawns leading down to the Teviot and differing herbaceous borders providing overall colour; the Winter Garden features plants that display vivid colours in winter and displays of fritillarias in spring; the walled Rose Garden, with river views, provides intoxicating scents in the summer months; the Herb Garden, with lavender borders and Victorian box hedges, grows herbs used in the house kitchens – in early June, the Albertine roses are in full bloom. The Arboretum, originally an early Victorian Pinetum, includes broadleaves as well, and in spring there are carpets of snowdrops, daffodils and bluebells. The Laburnam Tunnel was created for the Millennium celebrations but the latest addition, and opened in 2016, is the Garden of Persistent Imagination with its stone structures and specialist plant choices.
Features
- Opening Times
- Opening Times: Gardens open Apr-Oct, 12-5; House open 1-29 Jul, 1-5
- Facilities
- Parking onsite
- Parking nearby
About the area
Southern Scotland is often referred to as the Lowlands, to distinguish it from the mountainous grandeur of the North-West Highlands. But don’t be fooled by the description.
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