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GREAT GARDENS TO VISIT THIS MONTH
Caprington Castle, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire Open for daffodils and spring fl owers, visitors can see swathes of daffodils along with primroses and wood anemones in attractive grounds. There is a large walled garden with fruit trees, soft fruit, vegetables and borders. Open 7 April 1.30-5pm
A wild week
National Gardening Week 2013 runs from Monday 15-Sunday 21 April. The Royal Horticultural Society and partners will be focusing on the themes of horticultural careers and wildfl owers. Lots of gardening events are planned as well as a wildfl ower seed giveaway. Visit
www.nationalgardeningweek.org.uk for further information.
Brodie Castle, Forres, Moray and Nairn The Brodie Castle Daffodil Tea Event, including guided walks. The grounds are carpeted with the daffodils for which the castle is rightly famous. Bred by Ian Brodie, these daffodils are internationally signifi cant, some are found nowhere else in the world but the castle grounds. There is also a shrubbery garden with rhododendrons and a good tree collection. Open 13 and 14 April 10.30am-4.30pm
Brackla Wood, Culbokie, Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty
A mature one-acre plot consisting of woodland, wildlife features, ponds, mixed borders, a kitchen garden, a rockery and a mini-orchard. Spring bulbs and hellebores, rhododendron, wisteria and roses followed by crocosmia, clematis and deciduous trees provide continuous colour and interest throughout the season. There is a chance of seeing red squirrels and the garden has new beds for 2013. Open 15-19 April, 2-4pm
Picture the perfect garden
This year’s International Garden Photographer of the Year exhibition is on display at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 22 March until 26 May, after which it will open at Benmore Botanic Garden in Argyll on 1 June. The RBGE exhibition will feature selections from the competition categories that focus on biodiversity and the wider environment – ‘Images of a Green Planet’. Go to
www.igpoty.com for more information about International Garden Photographer of the Year.
THE MORAY SUNLOUNGER SUITE is manufactured with the Scottish climate in mind. The cushions are made to stay outside, in all weathers, all year round and are dry within 5 minutes of the rain stopping. The ‘All Weather Weave’
is impervious to rain, frost, snow and is UV stable. Available from Garden Furniture Scotland, 300 Strathtay Road, Perth. Tel 01738 248019.
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WWW.SCOTTISHFIELD.CO.UK
Crarae Garden, Inveraray, Argyll A spectacular 50-acre garden in a dramatic setting. Crarae has a wonderful collection of woody plants centred on the Crarae Burn, which is spanned by several bridges and tumbles through a rocky gorge in a series of cascades. A wide variety of shrubs and trees chosen for spring fl owering and autumn colour grow in the shelter of towering conifers. The lush, naturalistic planting and rushing water gives the garden the feel of a valley in the Himalayas. Open 21 April 10am-5pm
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