Houses & gardens in Scottish BordersScottish Borders, Scotland

11 houses and gardens in the Albion Guide across Scottish Borders — see the full houses and gardens directory, or everything to explore in Scottish Borders.

Abbotsford Gardens

Walled and formal gardens around Sir Walter Scott's romantic riverside home on the Tweed.

Melrose

Designed grounds, lochs and woodland walks around the Buccleuch house near Selkirk.

Selkirk

Walled Victorian kitchen garden and riverside parkland around Scotland's largest inhabited castle.

Kelso

Terraced Edwardian gardens by Reginald Blomfield below an Adam-designed mansion.

Gordon

Grounds and a hedge maze around Scotland's oldest inhabited house, with its own working brewery.

Innerleithen

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.

Melrose