Garden Visits 2014
This page contains information about the garden visits made by the group in 2014, which is when the group started up. The coordinators were Peggy Cruickshank and Ruth Long.
This is their summary of the garden visits in 2014.
Garden Visits
We held five meetings this year and visited six gardens in all. We were amazingly lucky with the weather: blue skies and brilliant sunshine made the gardens even more spectacular. Picture vast rhododendron trees in full bloom against an azure blue sky in Glenarn in May, or the splendid hanging gardens of Culross Palace in June, crammed with flowers, fruit and vegetables (not to mention some very cute hens), the blue sea in the distance, the terracotta roofs of the houses and, again, the brilliant blue sky. We stayed local in June and visited Duntreath castle where Lady Edmonstone gave us a warm welcome and where the gardens were, like the weather, wonderful. Our visit to Mount Stuart in August was a very pleasant adventure with, again, the beauty of plants and trees enhanced by sunshine and blue skies. Although it was overcast for our last visit, in September, to Greenbank followed by Holmwood House, we had a lovely and informative time. And, what really made the summer, our fellow U3A members were so cheerful and supportive that we feel we’ve made a group of new friends whom we’re looking forward to seeing again next spring, to start all over again.
Some photos of these visits can be seen on this page and there are more on the Previous House & Garden Visits Photos link.
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