Scotland's Gardens Scheme - Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney & Shetland

27/08/2025

27/08/2025

✨ Quick reminder for Friday ✨
GLENKINDIE CASTLE, Glenkindie, Alford
Open 10am - 2pm
🎟️Admission £10.00, children free (includes refreshments)
💛Nominated charity: 60%.

🏰GlenKindie Castle is a 16th-century castle remodelled in the 1900s.
🌹The walled gardens are laid out in the Victorian Arts & Crafts style with herbaceous borders, a magnificent rhododendron shrubbery, specimen trees and rose beds.
🌳There is a fine collection of 19th-century yew topiary depicting teddy bears, chess pieces and characters from Alice in Wonderland.
🕊️Visitors can also enjoy a stroll around the pond to view the 17th-century dovecot.
📍On the A97 Alford/Strathdon road, 12 miles west of Alford. Entrance to GlenKindie Castle is through the main gates.
🅿️free parking available near the gardens. What3words location: ///vision.trainer.shredder

09/09/2024

Join us in 2025!

30/08/2024

✨ POP UP OPEN GARDEN ✨
GLENKINDIE HOUSE, Glenkindie, Alford AB33 8SU
Friday 30 August, 10am - 2pm
🫖🍰Admission £10.00 including refreshments, children free.
Nominated charity: The Silver Circle 60%.
Further details in comments 👇

22/07/2024

Open this weekend 👇

02/07/2024

Amat Lodge open 6&7 July 😊👇

22/06/2024

13/06/2024

During 2023, our charity donated £12,000 to support horticulturists in Scotland.

🌼 Our new Scotland’s Gardens Scheme Cattanach Bursary gave £8,200 for bursaries to support people working and training in horticulture in Scotland. 14 bursaries were awarded to individuals in 2023.

🌼 We donated £3,500 to National Trust for Scotland for their Lead Gardeners meeting, supporting professional development of garden staff.

🌼 We gave £300 to support the Grow Careers event for student horticulturists.

With many thanks to our wonderful garden openers who make it possible for us to provide this fantastic support to horticulturists in Scotland. 🌿

Read more about our 2023 impact here:
scotlandsgardens.org/our-impact/

24/05/2024

Following our 2023 season, we made donations of £22,000 from funds raised through our garden openings to each of our core charities Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland Maggie's Centres and Perennial - Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society 🌱

Read more about our 2023 impact here:
scotlandsgardens.org/our-impact/