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Garden Name: Castle Kennedy & Lochinch Gardens
Last Modified: 01/02/2010
Garden ID: 0449

pic: 0449_LochinchCastle.jpg

Owner: Muriel Campbell
Address:
Stranraer
Wigtownshire
Dumfries & Galloway
Postcode: DG9 8BX
County: Scotland

tel: 01776 702024
fax: 01776 706 248
website: www.castlekennedygardens.co.uk
email: info {at} castlekennedygardens.co.uk

Features: 
Landscaped terraces and rhododendrons

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
1st April - 30th Sept; daily; 10 am - 5pm. 
Feb, Mar & Oct; Weekends. Rest of year by appintment

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
April, May, June.

To see: 


National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adults £4; Child £1; Over 60s £3.
Groups of 20+ 10% discount.

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: No
Teas: No
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: No
Dogs allowed: Yes
Only on Lead: No
Events: No

Other Facilities:
Some facilities for disabled.


Designer: 
Description of Garden:
The nineteenth century, but now ruined, castle is set in 75 acres of landscaped terraces and avenues and stands on a peninsula between two large natural lochs, the Black Loch and the White Loch. The gardens are famous not only for the collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and embothriums, but also for the Monkey Puzzle Avenue planted in about 1890 from the first imported seed. The garden is best understood as a Scots interpretation of Bridgeman's style.


History: 
The garden was laid out by the 2nd Earl of Stair, with work carried out by the Royal Scots Greys and the Inniskilling Fusiliers. Stair was a Field Marshall and the garden has 'military' grass terraces and a 2 acre circular lily pond.

Local Inns: 
Plantings, half a mile away.

Accomodation: 
Creebridge House Hotel, Minnigaff, Newton Stewart

Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: