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The Sensuous Retreat - a garden to stimulate all five senses - sight - smell - taste - touch - sound. As well as demonstrating a private sheltered retreat you could recreate yourself using the same landscape materials we have used. (Designer Collection - Fragrant garden) The Potager - Come and see the 'pretty and productive' crops of herbs, salads, vegetables and edible flowers we are growing in our Potager here at New Hopetoun Gardens. Pick up your free copies of our Potager 1 and Potager 2 leaflets that suggest crops that you could be planting each month in your garden as well as recipes for crops that are ready to pick each month! Tartan Tuscany - the recreation of our Best Show Garden 1999 at Strathclyde Park - an interpretation of an Italian Tuscan Style Garden that is suitable for our Scottish Climate! (Designer Collection - Sunny and Dry) The Shady and Dry Border - how to treat, and what plants to choose for that difficult corner that you find in every garden right next to where you can buy these plants. (Designer Collection - Shady and Dry) The Scottish Garden - a celebration of the history and styles of gardening in Scotland. Our Scottish Collection of garden plants embraces, Rhododendrons, Heathers, Conifers, Peat Loving Plants, Hardy Perennials. (Leaflet - The Scottish Garden) The Oriental Garden - experience the eastern calm and a place to escape the hurly-burly of modern life - even the maintenance requirements are minimal so you can really relax in this garden and just enjoy watching and contemplating life. Designer Collection - Oriental Collection) The Alpine Bank - located next to the sales area for rockery and alpine plants there are lots of ideas here for your own rockery, alpine trough or scree garden. (Designer Collection - Alpine and Rockery Plants) Plant-for-Wildlife Border - a long border which has something of interest throughout the year and all the plants are of benefit to wildlife visitors to the garden. It shows you what we could all do for the environment in our own patch, while treating ourselves to a lovely garden at the same time! (Designer Collection - Plants for Wildlife and Gardeners) creating BETTER BORDERS — a small border illustrating our leaflet of the same name which explains how you can go about choosing and arranging new garden plants — to enjoy success first time and every time, as well as creating a display that looks good all year round. The Woodland Walk - an interesting corner all year round and now the home of the reclining figure of our Woodland Muse.Ê It has become a tradition to come and explore the winter walk in the Woodland during January and February and then enjoy soup or a hot chocolate in the Orangery tearoom! The Buddleia Bank -a dryish bank in full sun along from the Alpine Bank showing the type of plants that thrive in these conditions. (Designer Collection - Sunny and Dry Border) The Sunny and Damp Pool - sit under our living willow arbour with a view north across the Forth to Fife and enjoy the lush planting around the pool (Designer Collection - Sunny and Damp Border) The Shady and Damp View - look down onto the pond from the wooden viewing platform and be inspired by the plants that revel in these conditions (Designer Collection - Shady and Damp Border) The Flower Arranger's Steps -either side of these steps down from the Tearoom Terrace we have planted plants to provide picking material for the house all year round (Designer Collection - Flower Arranger's Garden) The New Hopetoun Mood Gardens - our two mood gardens, calm and exciting, were first created at Gardening Scotland 2002 and then rebuilt here in June 2002. We are delighted with them and hope you will be too. (Designer Collections - Calm Relaxed Border & Exciting Vibrant Border) Hedging Knot Garden - walk through this simple modern knot garden to see how different plants can be used for hedging (Designer Collection - Hedges) Basement
Patio -‘Chic in the City’ is the title of
our Patio Garden (5m x 4m) at Gardening Scotland Show at Ingliston
this summer. A north facing basement garden designed for a professional
couple both aged 35. All the plants are growing in containers
or raised beds, the garden uses design tricks to make it appear
bigger and brighter, it aims to remind people of the huge benefits
to personal health and well being as well as the environmental
benefits of spending time every day with plants. If you miss us
at the show, we are rebuilding the garden back at New Hopetoun
Gardens during June. |
