01/09/2026
Pitmuies is worth an hour of anyone's day, and September is your last chance this year.
Two walled gardens beside an eighteenth-century house, fifteen minutes or so east of us. Long herbaceous borders, an old kitchen garden, and walks down along the river and the loch under some genuinely fine trees. There's a turreted doocot and a Gothick wash house, which sound like things I've made up but aren't.
The shrubs are turning by now, so you get the autumn colour and hardly anyone else in the place. It opens for Scotland's Gardens Scheme until the 30th, then that's it until spring.
Small charge on the gate and it goes to charity. Details on scotlandsgardens.org.
foresterseat.co.uk
Emma x
