Houses & gardens in Dumfries and GallowayDumfries and Galloway, Scotland

8 houses and gardens in the Albion Guide across Dumfries and Galloway — see the full houses and gardens directory, or everything to explore in Dumfries and Galloway.

Drumlanrig Castle Gardens

Formal Victorian parterres and woodland walks around the pink-sandstone Queensberry seat in Nithsdale.

Thornhill

Scotland's most exotic garden, where the Gulf Stream lets southern-hemisphere tree ferns and palms flourish on the Rhins.

Port Logan

Hillside garden overlooking Luce Bay, carved from moorland and warmed by the Gulf Stream.

Dunragit

Charles Jencks's sculptural landscape of landforms and terraces, opening to the public for just one day each year.

Holywood

Sixty-four acres of themed garden rooms around a Victorian mansion, run by the National Trust for Scotland.

Castle Douglas

Twenty-four acres of woodland, water and formal gardens near the Solway, with a Japanese garden and lake.

Kirkbean

Historic designed landscape laid out on an isthmus between two lochs, with avenues, a walled garden and exotic planting.

Stranraer

Sheltered seaside gardens begun in the 1740s, with woodland walks down to the shore of Wigtown Bay.

Garlieston