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143 houses and gardens across Scotland, the finest first, then every one county by county.
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Whitewashed Atholl seat with the walled Hercules Garden, deer park and Diana's Grove of tall conifers.
Perth and Kinross
Robert Adam clifftop mansion set in a 260-hectare country park of walled gardens, woodland and shore on the Ayrshire coast.
South Ayrshire
The monarch's official residence in Scotland, at the foot of the Royal Mile, with Mary, Queen of Scots' rooms and the ruined abbey beside it.
Edinburgh
Crowning place of Scottish kings, a Gothic palace near Perth with parkland, a pinetum and a famous beech maze.
Walled and formal gardens around Sir Walter Scott's romantic riverside home on the Tweed.
Scottish Borders
Fairytale French-style castle above the sea near Golspie, with formal parterres modelled on Versailles and daily falconry.
Highland
Restored formal garden and the world's oldest royal (real) tennis court behind the Stuart hunting palace.
Fife
Childhood home of the Queen Mother, a turreted Angus castle with Italian garden and walled grounds.
Angus
Victorian castle above Stornoway harbour set in wooded grounds — a rare woodland on treeless Lewis — with a museum.
Na h-Eileanan Siar
The royal family's Deeside estate, with gardens, grounds and the castle ballroom open when the family is away.
Aberdeenshire
Fairytale turreted castle of Macbeth fame with three walled gardens and woodland nature trails.
Extravagant 18th-century stone pineapple folly crowning a walled garden in the Dunmore estate near Airth.
Falkirk
Five acres of formal and woodland gardens around the ancient MacLeod seat on Skye's north-west coast.
Designed grounds and woodland walks around the turreted Campbell seat on Loch Fyne.
Argyll and Bute
Extravagant Gothic-revival mansion on Bute set in 300 acres of woodland, walled gardens and shore.
Coastal woodland garden of rhododendrons and rare shrubs on a headland between Oban and Lochgilphead.
Ruined castle and 40 acres of gardens and woodland in Sleat, home to the Clan Donald centre and museum.
Walled garden, woodland and Loch Lomond shore around a Regency castellated house at the south end of the loch.
West Dunbartonshire
Mountainside Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh outpost famous for its avenue of giant redwoods above Loch Eck.
Designed grounds, lochs and woodland walks around the Buccleuch house near Selkirk.
Small but renowned hillside garden above Perth, celebrated for its Himalayan poppies and alpines.
Grand French-chateau-style mansion and free museum in Callendar Park, Falkirk, telling the district's story.
Victorian house on Canna holding the Campbell Gaelic folklore archive, in National Trust care.
The late Queen Mother's northern home near John o' Groats, with a sheltered walled Great Garden by the Pentland Firth.
Five-star country park around William Adam's ornate 1730s hunting lodge, with formal parterres and ancient Cadzow oaks.
South Lanarkshire
Turreted tower house on Royal Deeside famous for its yew-hedged walled garden of eight themed rooms.
Formal Victorian parterres and woodland walks around the pink-sandstone Queensberry seat in Nithsdale.
Dumfries and Galloway
Ruined castle with an exquisite walled Renaissance 'Pleasance' of carved heraldic and symbolic panels.
Walled Victorian kitchen garden and riverside parkland around Scotland's largest inhabited castle.
Baronial castle with a walled garden of Scottish fruit and a lochside parkland.
West End botanic gardens famous for the Kibble Palace, a Victorian glasshouse of tree ferns and marble sculpture.
Glasgow
Adam-designed Palladian mansion set in terraced gardens and a country park.
Grand Adam-designed mansion with sweeping parkland and formal gardens above the Firth of Forth.
West Lothian
Thatched cottage and Georgian house in Cromarty telling the story of the pioneering geologist and writer Hugh Miller.
Famous subtropical garden on the shores of Loch Ewe, warmed by the Gulf Stream far up the north-west coast.
Walled Arts-and-Crafts garden of old roses and organic beds around a restored Fife tower house.
Alpine and water garden set in a Donside ravine below the ruin of Kildrummy Castle.
Historic house and museum in wooded parkland at Bo'ness, where James Watt worked on his steam engine.
Parkland and gardens around the Hamilton family seat, built on a medieval tower near Haddington.
East Lothian
Terraced Edwardian gardens by Reginald Blomfield below an Adam-designed mansion.
18th-century designed landscape of woodland walks and follies around a Palladian villa near Musselburgh.
Spectacular re-created 17th-century Great Garden of formal parterres and box hedging.
Glasgow's largest park, wooded parkland with walled gardens, Highland cattle, Pollok House and the Burrell Collection.
A 70-acre botanic garden on a hillside above the city, with a famous rock garden, a Chinese hillside and Britain's tallest palm house.
Grounds and a hedge maze around Scotland's oldest inhabited house, with its own working brewery.
Red-sandstone castle above Brodick Bay with a celebrated rhododendron garden and woodland country park under Goat Fell.
North Ayrshire
Scotland's most exotic garden, where the Gulf Stream lets southern-hemisphere tree ferns and palms flourish on the Rhins.
Small ornamental city garden in Aberdeen's west end with a pond, rockery, waterfalls and bridges.
Aberdeen
Riverside park in Old Aberdeen below St Machar's Cathedral, with a formal rose garden and Don-side walks.
University of Aberdeen botanic garden of rock gardens, borders and an arboretum in Old Aberdeen.
Victorian Aberdeen park with the David Welch Winter Gardens, one of Europe's largest indoor gardens.
Large Aberdeen park with a rose garden, azalea and heather beds, and a surviving privet maze.
220-acre country estate park near Mintlaw with woodland, a walled garden and the Aberdeenshire Farming Museum.
Mintlaw
Historic walled garden high in Strathdon on upper Donside, restored around a Victorian glasshouse.
Strathdon
Wooded riverside estate park on the Don at Alford with formal grounds and a walled garden.
Alford
One of Scotland's oldest tower houses with a walled Garden of Historic Roses.
Drumoak
Rambling mansion with a colourful Arts-and-Crafts rock and herbaceous garden.
Kennethmont
Walled gardens near Guthrie with long borders, an alpine meadow and woodland walks.
Guthrie
William Adam mansion above the Montrose Basin with walled garden and woodland walks.
Montrose
Regency-Gothic house near Montrose with a walled garden and woodland, open a few weeks each summer.
Walled gardens at Arbroath's Victorian arts house, recently redesigned by planting designer Nigel Dunnett.
Arbroath
Restored walled garden and grounds near Montrose open to visitors.
Fifty acres of rhododendrons, azaleas and subtropical planting sheltering behind Gigha's mild Gulf Stream shores.
Ardminish
Intimate 1930s West Highland garden of streams, azaleas and cherry blossom sheltered below quarry cliffs on Seil.
Ellenabeich
Herbaceous borders, roses and rockery set beside a medieval priory ruin on the shore of Loch Etive.
Ardchattan
Council-run walled show gardens above Rothesay with greenhouses, aviaries and ornamental fish ponds.
Rothesay
Woodland garden above Loch Fyne with champion conifers, including one of Britain's mightiest trees, and a rhododendron collection.
Cairndow
Walled garden and water gardens around a small castle on a rocky knoll south of Oban.
Balvicar
Sheltered woodland gardens of rhododendrons and rare shrubs around Colonsay House, with the ancient Riasg Buidhe cross.
Kiloran
Himalayan-style ravine garden of rhododendrons and exotic trees on the shore of Loch Fyne.
Minard
Intimate walled and woodland garden near Cardross with a walled kitchen garden and burn-side walk.
Cardross
Hillside forestry arboretum of exotic trees from around the world above the Holy Loch.
Kilmun
Restored Victorian sunken fernery, one of few surviving, set in a plant-rich garden on Bute.
Ascog
Hillside woodland garden famed for very early-flowering rhododendrons and magnolias above the Gareloch.
Rhu
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
One of Scotland's largest walled gardens, an 18th-century enclosure at Haddington restored by volunteers.
Haddington
A restored walled kitchen garden between Gullane and Dirleton with a café, farm shop, produce beds and a fairy trail.
Dirleton
A terraced garden at Musselburgh restored by the National Trust for Scotland, with roses, a conservatory and aviary.
Musselburgh
Robert Adam mansion set in policies of ornamental ponds and woodland on the East Lothian coast.
Aberlady
Arts-and-Crafts herbaceous borders and a 16th-century doocot in the grounds of a ruined East Lothian castle.
A one-acre artist's garden at Inveresk designed by botanical painter Ann Fraser, with rills, topiary and a potager.
Inveresk
A recreated 17th-century Scottish garden of clipped hedges and physic beds beside Haddington House.
An unusual 18th-century walled garden on the banks of the Water of Leith in Colinton Dell, run as a horticultural therapy project.
A tranquil volunteer-run physic-style garden on the shore of Duddingston Loch beneath Arthur's Seat.
Duddingston
A three-acre walled garden at Balerno with old-fashioned roses, deep herbaceous borders and Scotland's National Bonsai Collection.
Balerno
The valley park below the Castle, split by the Mound, with the Ross Fountain, the Scott Monument and the world's oldest floral clock.
A 76-acre Victorian park gifted to Dunfermline by Andrew Carnegie, known locally as 'the Glen', with glasshouses and peacocks.
Dunfermline
A Victorian walled garden and woodland estate near Kingsbarns celebrated for its spring snowdrops and cutting borders.
Kingsbarns
Edwardian formal gardens laid out by Sir Robert Lorimer around a mansionhouse near Cupar.
Cupar
169-acre Southside park with the Sunken Garden, walled displays and the Mackintosh-designed House for an Art Lover.
East End Victorian park internationally known for its rose garden and restored Winter Gardens glasshouse.
Award-winning sanctuary garden behind the Tramway arts venue in Pollokshields.
Wild hillside garden and nursery high above Loch Ness, packed with native and exotic plants amid woodland and loch views.
Abriachan
Restored 18th-century walled kitchen garden supplying its own cafe-restaurant near Applecross village.
Applecross
Twenty acres of woodland, water and Japanese-inspired gardens against a Wester Ross mountain backdrop.
Strathcarron
Grand Victorian terraced gardens with clipped yews, a long water canal and walled kitchen garden beside Loch Dochfour.
Dochgarroch
The UK's most northerly botanic garden, with tropical and cactus glasshouses, outdoor beds and a café, free to enter.
Inverness
Forestry arboretum of specimen conifers and broadleaves with waymarked trails near Braemore.
Braemore
National Trust for Scotland woodland garden on the Balmacara Estate, with ferns, rhododendrons and shore paths beside Loch Alsh.
Balmacara
Long-established organic herb nursery on the Black Isle growing hundreds of culinary, medicinal and aromatic varieties.
Poyntzfield
Sprawling rhododendron and woodland gardens around a Victorian house on the remote Morvern peninsula.
Lochaline
Woodland gardens of rhododendrons and azaleas around a country house on the Road to the Isles.
Arisaig
Romantic walled and woodland garden reclaimed from a Victorian estate at Divach above Drumnadrochit, opening for charity.
Drumnadrochit
Eight acres of arboretum, courtyard garden, ponds and old kitchen garden around the seat of Clan Munro on the Cromarty Firth.
Evanton
Family nursery and display garden at Kiltarlity near Beauly, specialising in perennials, alpines and bulbs with Highland views.
Kiltarlity
Edwardian walled garden below Kinloch Castle on Rum, once heated to grow exotic fruit.
Kinloch
Sheltered walled garden of herbaceous borders and old-fashioned flowers on the Langwell estate near Berriedale.
Berriedale
Victorian shrubbery and arboretum of mature exotic trees and rhododendrons on the shore of Loch Broom.
Leckmelm
Forres's award-winning floral park, famous for elaborate sculptural bedding displays each summer.
Forres
Pink-harled Z-plan castle with a daffodil-famous parkland and walled garden near Forres.
Brodie
One of Britain's largest walled gardens, an eight-acre restored kitchen garden near Fochabers with a cafe.
Fochabers
19th-century walled garden at Logie Steading near Forres, with herbaceous borders above the Findhorn.
Dunphail
Hillside garden above the Tay near Aberfeldy with walled borders, a burn garden and Highland views.
Aberfeldy
Woodland garden near Aberfeldy famous for giant redwoods and Himalayan planting.
Vast terraced formal parterre in the shape of a St Andrew's cross below a Perthshire castle.
Muthill
Pitlochry garden telling the story of Scottish plant hunters, beside the Festival Theatre.
Pitlochry
Renowned woodland garden and rhododendron/azalea nursery on the Braes of the Carse east of Perth.
Glencarse
One of Britain's finest arboreta, with towering conifers, rhododendrons and drifts of snowdrops in the upper Tweed valley.
Stobo
Peaceful walled garden of lawns and herbaceous borders opposite Melrose Abbey, cared for by the National Trust for Scotland.
Melrose
Seventeen acres of walled garden, woodland and burnside walks on the Tweed near Peebles.
Peebles
Parkland and woodland around the turreted Maitland castle on the Leader Water.
Lauder
Riverside gardens above the Teviot with a walled rose garden, water garden and views to the hills.
Ancrum
Scotland's only dedicated dried-flower garden, with an old orchard, beside Melrose Abbey.
Large mature garden five miles west of Stirling with a walled garden, azalea and rhododendron woodland walks and specimen trees.
Gargunnock
Well-established two-acre Dunblane garden of rhododendrons, azaleas, shrubs and perennials with a woodland walk.
Dunblane
Twelve-acre castle garden near Dunblane in informal, woodland and wild sections above a burn.
A historic estate park by the River Esk, one of Scotland's best places for snowdrops, with woodland walks and an adventure playground.
Midlothian
William Adam mansion with parkland and gardens in the Midlothian countryside near Gorebridge.
National Trust for Scotland 2.5-acre 18th-century walled garden at Clarkston with over 3,600 plant species.
East Renfrewshire
270-hectare country park on Milngavie's edge with a walled garden, two castles, loch and woodland trails.
East Dunbartonshire
Popular Paisley public park with a walled sensory garden, boating pond and a rare-breeds animal corner.
Renfrewshire
Victorian public park in Falkirk with a restored walled garden and glasshouse plantings.
Historic 143-acre park south of Glasgow with a walled garden, waterfall and glen walks.
East Kilbride country park with ornamental gardens, a tropical glasshouse, children's zoo and gorge walks.
Free Kilmarnock country park with formal gardens, an urban farm and woodland around a medieval keep.
East Ayrshire
Historic gardens, glen and waterfalls on the Kelburn estate above Fairlie, with the graffiti-painted castle and the Secret Forest.
Best-preserved traditional Lewis blackhouse, a peat-fire crofting home kept as a living-history museum.
A restored 19th-century thatched croft house and mill at Dunrossness, furnished with a peat fire and box beds.
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