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The winner of our Chelsea Flower Show prize draw
We received hundreds of entries for our prize draw at the Chelsea Flower Show and the lucky winner has been found. Congratulations to Sylvia Daw of Alfriston in East Sussex who wins a garden holiday in Scotland courtesy of Brightwater Holidays. You don’t have to travel too far to enjoy first class horticultural holidays. With […]
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Scotland makes its mark at Chelsea
Flower show to bring Scotland’s gardens into bloom For the first time, Discover Scottish Gardens, Scotland’s recently formed national garden tourism organisation, will exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (23 – 27 May), representing Scotland’s magnificent collection of gardens, nurseries and garden related businesses. The tourism group launched in 2015 with the help of […]
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Scottish Rhododendron Festival
All rhododendrons lead to Scotland Festival celebrates ‘second national flower’ Gardens and horticultural businesses throughout Scotland are set to take part in a nationwide celebration of Scotland’s “second national flower” – the rhododendron. Organised by Discover Scottish Gardens and supported for the first time this year by VisitScotland, the Scottish Rhododendron Festival begins this weekend […]
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Inverewe wins UK top garden award
National Trust for Scotland Inverewe Garden in Wester Ross has just been named as ‘UK Garden of the Year’ in the BBC Countryfile Magazine awards. Beating five other finalists to this prestigious award, the sub-tropical NTS garden on the shores of Loch Ewe is now proud to be called the best garden, not just […]
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Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017
2017 is the year to delve into the past and discover Scotland’s fascinating tangible and intangible heritage through a wide-ranging variety of new and existing events, a vast range of heritage attractions, incredible historic sites and of course, horticultural heritage. From late medieval to modern creations in older settings – the history of the Scottish […]
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Scottish Snowdrop Festival
Blossoming across Scotland from 28 January to 12 March, the Scottish Snowdrop Festival features more than 50 properties, including 13 newly added for 2017, showing off spectacular swathes of snowdrops carpeting their grounds. There are 300 varieties of Galanthus – to give the snowdrop its botanical name – and the versatility and hardiness of the […]
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Blooming Marvellous! – £30k VisitScotland boost and heading for Chelsea
Scotland’s £240 million* garden tourism industry is set to bloom further after a £30,000 funding boost from VisitScotland. National garden tourism body Discover Scottish Gardens, which officially launched in 2015 with the help of VisitScotland’s Growth Fund, has received a second round of funding to help develop plans to exhibit at the prestigious RHS Chelsea […]
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Autumn splendour at Dawyck Botanic Garden
Garden lovers are invited to visit Scotland’s gardens this autumn There’s still time to see this season’s stunning colours but hurry while the mild weather lasts. In images taken at the beginning of the month Dawyck Botanic Garden, a member of Discover Scottish Gardens (DSG), showcases its plant collections in all their autumnal glory, a timely […]
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The ‘Grow Your Own’ trend takes hold across Scottish gardens and households
Edible gardening projects have been springing up in gardens all over Scotland this summer. The rise of community cooperatives, small scale vegetable exchanges and public allotment schemes is continuing to fuel the ‘grow your own’ movement in Scotland. From window boxes and crop containers to allotments and private gardens, plant enthusiasts are increasingly challenging themselves […]
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Argyll’s Rhododendron Festival extends across Scottish Gardens
Argyll’s Rhododendron Festival, which enjoyed a successful first year in 2015, is this year being extended around the whole of the country by Discover Scottish Gardens, Scotland’s garden tourism organisation. The Rhododendron Festival (1 April – 31 May) was launched by the Glorious Gardens of Argyll & Bute (GGAB) with the aim of encouraging local audiences […]
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