U&R chose to spend the day in Glasgow, so we dropped them off at the train station in Dunblane and came back into Crieff for coffee at the Glass Onion. On our way to the Drummond Castle Gardens, we stopped in Muthill to walk around an ancient church ruin
After that, we made our way thru narrow country roads to the Drummond Castle Gardens.
The castle was build by the 1st Lord Drummond in 1490 on land bequeathed by James Vl and bestowed the title of Earl of Perth.
The castle is not available for touring but the magnificent gardens are well worth wandering through.
Drummond Castle Gardens is one of Europe’s and Scotland’s most important and impressive formal gardens. Located in Perthshire near Crieff, it dates back to the 17th Century. The gardens were redesigned and terraced in the 19th Century. The formal gardens that you see today were replanted in the 1950s but preserve many of the original features, the ancient yew hedges and the remaining beech tree planted by Queen Victoria, commemorating her visit in 1842.
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| Copper Beech tree planted by Queen Victoria in 1842 |
More amazing structures and an walls with no ceilings.. Well groomed gardens and bushes... for a brief moment I had a Monty Python moment and did my best not to say SHRUBBERY !! OOPS I said it.. Keep on sharing.. love it all !! CARRY IT ON !!!
ReplyDeleteThese mansions and gardens are so much bigger than life a we know it...nothing compares.....I could almost hear the Saxon soldier on the battlements yelling" Your mother smells like Elderberries"...."I fart in your general direction, English Pig Dog"!
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