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Shepherd House tel: 0131 665 2570 Area: Scotland |
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| Visitor Information | www.shepherdhousegarden.co.uk -- email: annfraser {at} talktalk.net |
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Shepherd House |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||
Sunday 21st February 12noon - 3pm - Specialist Plant Stall,Soup and roll (Scottish Snowdrop Festival) |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes Please contact by phone or email |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Please contact by phone or email |
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House
Open for Viewing: No |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes (SGS days) |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: April - June |
To
see: Large collection of tulips and other bulbs. Early perennials. Roses. Rill parterre and potager. |
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| Admission Prices | |||
| Adult £3.50; Children (accompanied) free. Honesty Box Tuesday and Thursdays |
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| Onsite Facilities | |||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: No Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: No |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: No Picnics: No |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: Yes Special Events: No |
| Other
Facilities: Plants are for sale on Sundays only. Teas also available on Sundays only. |
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| Garden Features | |||
| Rill, Alpine Wall, Potager, bulb meadow, parterre, ponds, fountains and botanical paintings. | English Heritage Garden Grade: | ||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Charles & Ann Fraser |
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| The garden at Shepherd House was one of only two in Scotland featured in the late Rosemary Verey's book "Secret Gardens" and lives up to its reputation with many individual gardens nestling inside each other like Chinese boxes. It reveals itself slowly starting with the Millennium Garden nearest the house planted with lavender, irises, oriental poppies and salvias. The main feature of the garden, however is the elegant stone rill flowing for 40 yards under rose covered arches planted with nepetia and alliums. The rill connects the central formal pond with a raised pond at the back of the garden containing four fountains which overflow to feed the rill. Other features of the garden include a bulb meadow, a woodland garden, a knot garden, a shrub rose border and a rose-covered arbour. |
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| History of Garden | |||
| Shepherd House dates from 1690 and the garden is surrounded by high stone walls. Inveresk was a Roman camp so the ground has obviously been cultivated for hundreds of years. However, when the present owners moved to the property in 1957, the garden was a wilderness. After consulting ancient maps, they first restored the central path and began the task of clearing the remainder. They began re-designing the rest of the garden and slowly the garden has evolved. Remarkably, they have never employed a garden designer nor operated to a central plan. | |||
| Nearby Scotland Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Self-catering cottage can be booked at www.scottish-country-cottages.co.uk |
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Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: 18th century village of Inveresk near to Musselburgh and 7 miles east of Edinburgh. |
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