Since we visited Dumfries House for the first time last month the house keeps popping up on TV. First it was featured in The Repair Shop, with King Charles. The yesterday it was on TV again with a documentary about how it was saved by the King who headed a consortium of like-minded people.
It was interesting to see the gardens being planned and constructed, but here are a few photos of how it looked in October, with the planting really coming on.
If you ever are able to visit Dumfries House remember that the tours of the house are guided and you must pre-book.
Below is a photo of the steps leading to the Belvedere.
The garden areas are coming on nicely.
Probably the house below is /was for the head gardener.
The cute wee house below is in the kitchen garden. It’s my idea of a dream house, or certainly from a fairy tale. I/we could just move in, there wouldn’t be much to do in the way of housework, and it has a handy chimney!
It wasn’t great weather-wise when we were at Dumfries House so we didn’t spend a lot of time exploring the grounds, we’ll do more of that the next time. It does have a great play area for kids though, so it’s a place for all ages to enjoy
As ever, click on the photos if you want to enlarge them.
If you are interested in visiting the area you might like to look at the nearby small village of Maybole which you can read about here.
Thanks for sharing the photos, Katrina. It looks like a truly delightful place to visit!
Paula,
We’ll definitely be going back again sometime!
Although the weather may not have been perfect, the photos came out beautifully, I think. I really enjoyed your comments and the tour!
Judith,
We were quite lucky as it stopped raining just as we got there but the ground was very wet as it had been raining for ages, next time we’ll make sure to go when the weather has been dry!
The gardens look lovely even in October. How funny that after you went it kept popping up all over!
Stefanie,
It was weird, especially as we had wanted to visit the place for years and only really knew about it as we knew someone who got a job working in the garden.