Greenbank Garden near Glasgow, Scotland
| Greenbank Garden, Clarkston, near Glasgow, Scotland was built in 1763 by a Glasgow merchant by the name of Robert Allason. The house is situated about about six miles from the centre of Glasgow. The house has sixteen rooms, and also barns, stables and a 2.5-acre (10,000 sqm) walled garden. Over the next two centuries, the house was owned by a number of families. In 1962 it was bought by W P Blyth who, with his wife, transformed the grounds from fruit and vegetable growing to the ornamental gardens that are seen today. Then, in 1976, Blyth gifted the house, walled garden, and the 16-acre (65,000 sqm) estate to the National Trust for Scotland. They still own and operate it. Today, the Gardens are open all year round to the public, and the house from March until October. Described as an "educational garden to inspire and educate visitors on what and how to grow a very wide range of more unusual plants which are available in the trade", Greenbank Garden's distinctive feature is its use of hedging and tall plants to divide the gardens into about a twelve distinctly characteristic areas. The gardens contain over 3,700 plants depending on the season. These include spring bulbs, apple and cherry blossom, astilbe, aubretia, deutzia, dicentra, saxifrages, hydrangeas, primulas, dahlias, roses, philadelphus, azalea, rhododendron, lythrum, crocosmia, phlox, cosmos, echinops, sedum, lavatera, monarda, helenium and sweet william, as well as rodgersia pinnata superba, echevaria gibbiflora metallica and agrostemma. The National Trust operates a tea-room next to the garden, where there is a substantial encyclopędia of plants, allowing visitors to identify specimens they do not recognise. [https://en.wikipedia.org, www.rampantscotland.com, www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk, www.nts.org.uk] |
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