Garden Visits 2025

Crieff May 2025

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At the end of May we visited two gardens near Crieff and braved a shocking weather forecast to be pleasantly surprised.  The morning was rather grey and dampish but we had a lovely village hall for tea, coffee and scones. The venue was also ideal for a huge and very successful plant sale which raised £190! Thank you to all those who brought plants and also those who bought plants and especially to Sheena MacGregor and her helpers. By the time we crossed the village square to Audrey McColl’s house, the weather was clearing and we enjoyed a charming garden, packed with goodies and shown to us by a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic owner.

Ochilview, Fowlis Wester (by kind permission of Audrey and Jim McColl)

This is a charming garden, not huge but packed with goodies. Audrey has created this garden from a totally blank slate into a lovely space with the eye constantly being caught by something new.

The garden is largely level and so has few hazards apart from the danger of tripping over one of the rabbits which also enjoy the garden!

Colquhalzie (pronounced Co-whiley), Kinkell Bridge (by kind permission of Arabella and Charles Connell

By the afternoon we were at Colquhazie in beautiful sunshine. This garden is mainly mixed park and woodland, sweeping down to the River Earn with a walled garden mostly given over to fruit. There are several lovely specimen trees and pieces of sculpture and we spotted lots of half hidden gems when wandering through older shrub plantings. We were welcomed to the gun room for tea before we left which was a much more comfortable space than the name suggests! A lovely end to a lovely day.