Walled garden project
Visit the Walled garden project gallery
At over eight acres, the walled garden at Gordon Castle is one of the largest in the country. In its heyday in the Victorian and Edwardian eras it provided an abundance of fruit, vegetables, cut flowers and herbs for the Castle and Estate.
After a period as a commercial soft fruit farm in the latter half of the twentieth century where in its best years over fifty tons of fruit was grown, it became uneconomic and has since been kept on a low maintenance programme.
It has been kept weed free and the two hundred and forty nine espaliered apple, plum, pear, peach, apricot, nectarine and fig trees around the walls have been well kept. The plums include the famous Gordon Castle plum, a hardy sweet desert plum, developed here over a century ago. Many of the fruit trees are hundreds of years old. The buildings however, have fallen into disrepair and the aim now is to restore both the buildings and garden to something approaching its former glory, or even to surpass it.
An historical assessment of the walled garden has been written by renowned garden historian Christopher Dingwall and can be read here. (download as .pdf document)
Gallery
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- The Gordon Castle Plum Tree
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- Walled Garden outside Garden Cottage
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- Lakeside House from Walled Garden
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- Lakeside House from the Walled Garden
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- To the Walled Garden
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- Entrance to the Walled Garden
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- Walled Garden fruit trees
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- Ariel view of the Walled Garden
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- 1911 as the Estate’s Kitchen Garden
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- Working in the Walled Garden
