Name: Charity Garden Opening - The Carriage House
Start: 2025-03-29T00:00:00+0000
End: 2025-10-26T00:00:00+0100
Location: The Carriage House

Charity Garden Opening - The Carriage House

29th March 2025

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Set within the historic Blair policies dating back to the 1500s, at the Carriage House the Borwicks have planted a beautiful arboretum. Built on the vision of generations of Blairs of creating a sanctuary of rare species trees, over the past four years a collection of over 160 trees and shrubs has transformed a 10-acre field into a peaceful refuge with year-round variety and colour. Mown pathways offer different vistas and points of interest including mermaids rescuing a girl, carved by a local artist from a Portuguese Laurel stump. View the 24-year old Wellingtonia _(Sequoiadendron giganteum)_ grown from Blair seed, an avenue of eight different lime trees which earned a _Queen's Green Canopy Award_, a _Metasequoia glyptostroboides_ 'Golden Dawn', and other rare trees. From a bench created from our own wood, enjoy the arboretum’s energy – a special experience. New since 2024 is a beautiful Cumbrian green slate commemorative stone, with superb engraving by the Cordozo Kindersley Workshop: it frames Blair Castle perfectly and honours the three related families who have nurtured this special place since 1105. The Blair crest heads the inscription with the motto “Amo Probos”, and the Royal Scots Greys badge “second to none” recognises the generations of family members serving our country in Scotland’s only cavalry regiment. Wander the Carriage House garden, created from a field since 2002 and planted with many varieties of roses and mature shrubs. This is a fundraising event for the open garden charity Scotland’s Gardens Scheme which raises money for hundreds of local charities.

http://scotlandsgardens.org/the-carriage-house/

00:00 - Saturday 29th March

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