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Glendoick Gardens

Glendoick Garden Centre & Public Gardens

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Apple Festival at Glendoick Gardens © PKCT

Glendoick was recently included in the Independent on Sunday’s exclusive survey of Europe’s Top 50 Gardens and boasts a unique collection of plants collected by three generations of Coxes from their plant-hunting expeditions to China and the Himalayas.

You can see one of the finest collections of rhododendrons and azaleas, primula, meconopsis, kalmia and sorbus in our woodland garden, peat garden, nursery and hybrid trial garden. You can also visit the garden centre’s beautiful and extensive display garden, open 7 days a week.

Special Features: Many of the Rhododendron and azalea species and hybrids you will see have been introduced from the wild or bred by the Cox family.

Glendoick also has a huge range of plants from many plant-hunting expeditions from as far afield as Chile, Tasmania and Tibet. For a glimpse into the fascinating world of rhododendron and azalea hybridising, new as yet unnamed hybrids from the Glendoick breeding programme can be seen in our test beds in the walled garden.

Directions

Glendoick is on the A90 Perth-Dundee road on the main Scottish road network which joins Edinburgh and Glasgow with Dundee and Aberdeen. Glendoick is 8 miles from Perth, approx 1 hour from Edinburgh and 1 hour 15 mins from Glasgow.