Gordon Castle Walled Garden

The walled garden at Gordon Castle in Moray is one of the few working kitchen gardens left in Scotland. It was built over 200 years ago when the castle was the principal seat of the dukes of Gordon and the head gardener and head chef would have worked closely together to feed the duke’s household and impress his guests. It was used for growing vegetables for the war effort in the 1940s but it went through a period of neglect from the 1990s until 2013 when Angus and Zara Gordon Lennox, who took on Angus’s ancestral seat in 2008, decided to restore it to its former Victorian and Edwardian glory with the help of leading garden designer, Arne Maynard and a team of skilled and enthusiastic gardeners and volunteers. What they have created is like a piece of art, an oasis of peace and tranquillity, with scented blooms, geometrically designed beds of splendid colour attracting butterflies and birds, and pathways through trained tree archways.