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Glenarn |
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Glenarn tel: 01436 820493 Area: Scotland |
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| Visitor Information | |||||||||||||
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| Glenarn Scotland All details updated* as of: 21/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
21st Mar - 21st Sept; Dawn to dusk. |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes Specialist |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes Special Open day under Scotland's Garden Scheme on first Sunday in May. |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: March - June April August |
To
see: Rhododendrons Tree magnolias Eucryphias |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| Adult £3; Child (over 5 years) £1.50; Over 60s £1.50; Season £20 (by arrangement) | |||||||||||||
| Onsite Facilities | |||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: No Disabled Access: No |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: Yes On Lead only: Yes Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: All Catering by prior arrangement and Guided Tours on request. Partial access for the disabled. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Glenarn is a West Coast garden with a world famous collection of Rhododendrons, Magnolias and other ericaceous plants. Set in a steep sided glen, the garden has a Himalayan character, but also has a pond, rock garden and vegetable patch as well as bee hives. Re-construction of potting shed, cold frame and shade house to be completed shortly. | English Heritage Garden Grade: | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
The Gibson family |
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| This sheltered woodland garden overlooks the Gareloch and is well-known for its collection of rhododendrons, many of them rare and difficult to grow in less well-protected locations. Its trees, shrubs and beautiful magnolias, with a carpet of snowdrops, daffodils, crocus and primulas below make for a delightful walk in Spring. Later on in May, the Magnolia wilsonii with its upside-down flowers and lily of the valley scent and magnolia globosa are not to be missed. Other magnolias, such as hypoleuca, flower in June. | |||||||||||||
| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| The House at Glenarn was built in the late 1830's and soon after the garden received plants from Joseph Hooker's 1849-50 expedition to Sikkim, notably the Rhododendron falconeri at the side of the house. The garden was extended by the Gibson family over the following 50 years after they acquired the property in 1927. The plant hunting expeditions of Kingdom Ward and Ludlow & Sherriff provided a great many plants as did other major gardens in Scotland. The Thornley family arrived at Glenarn in 1983 to find much to be done to restore the gardens to their former glory and then to extend their scope still further, work which is continuing. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Scotland Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Ardencaple Hotel, Rhu Rosslee Hotel, Rhu Commadore Hotel, Helensburgh |
Restaurants: Le Jardin, Helensburgh |
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| Inns & Pubs: Clachan Inn, Drymen (20m. W. of Stirling) |
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