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WINTER: 10th February to 26th February Tuesday and Thursday 2-4pm
SPRING AND SUMMER: 14th April to 9th July Tuesday and Thursday 2-4pm
Best Times of Year to Visit: April - Early July
Open in aid of SGS and other charities
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 21st and 22nd February 11am to 4pm
In conjunction with 'Scottish Snowdrop Festival'.
Charity opening in aid of 'Scotland's Gardens' and 'Lamp of Lothian'
Artist's Prints and Cards for sale ENTRANCE £4.00
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 25th AND 26th April 11am to 4.0pm
Charity opening in aid of 'Scotland's Gardens' and 'lamp of Lothian' . .
Artist's Prints and cards for sale. No teas.
ENTRANCE £4.00
Please contact by phone or email
Please contact by phone or email
(SGS days)
Feb April - early July
Collection of 50 different species of Snowdrop Large collection of tulips and other bulbs. Early perennials. Roses. Rill parterre and potager.
£4.00 by Honesty Box Groups Welcome by Arrangement
New for 2014 Architect designed Shell House now fully complete.
Self-catering cottage can be booked at www.scottish-country-cottages.co.uk
18th century village of Inveresk near to Musselburgh and 7 miles east of Edinburgh.
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.
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.
NEW FOR 2014 - Architect designed Shell House