Geilston Garden summer and autumn highlights

Events

31 Aug – Introduction to Mindfulness: What is it and why practice it?

31 Aug – Morning Mindfulness for Young Ones

18 Sep – Art Workshop with Julia Gurney (Friends of Geilston)

5 Oct – Apple Day (Friends of Geilston)

26 Oct – A Witchy Walk with The Walking Theatre Company

Punches of colour, tasty vegetables and a succession of seasonal plants make Geilston a classic garden with a vibrant feel. The garden is typical of the small country estates on the banks of the River Clyde, and has offered a tranquil haven for over 200 years.

Visit Geilston between August and October to discover these many highlights for yourself – there's something for everyone!

Kitchen Garden highlights

• The mini annual flower maze is looking wonderful and is covered in cloud of butterflies and bees.
• The Kitchen Garden has an amazing abundance of fruits, herbs and vegetables, with a selection picked daily all for sale at Geilston.
• The Kitchen Garden cut flower borders are dazzling with a fabulous range of dahlias, sunflowers, heleniums and sweet peas.
• The apples in the orchard are ripening fast for harvest in September/October, ready for Geilston’s Apple Day event on 5 October.

Walled Garden highlights

• The herbaceous border is in full bloom just now with phlox, astilbes, hemerocallis, salvias and sanguisorba. This will be followed by later flowering perennials such as anemones, asters and helianthus.
• Hydrangeas and eucryphias are shrubs that’ll be in full bloom over the coming weeks.
• The glasshouse is full of colour with pelargoniums, salvias, coleus and fuchsias. Tomatoes, cucumbers, basil and figs are also enjoying the sheltered conditions.

Woodland Garden highlights

• The Geilston burn attracts an array of wildlife and is a great place to observe birds and insects and fish.
• The tree canopy provides instant relief on hot summer days.
• The hydrangea glade now in flower surrounding the gazebo is a lovely spot to sit and relax.

Free children’s activities

• Various garden trails from hunt the bugs, spot the vegetables and a garden quiz (sheets available at reception).
• The mini flowering maze for toddlers to have fun exploring.
• The Hobbit Hole log structure to explore, and magnifying posts.
• Soft ball tennis on the old tennis court.
• Games in the Walled Garden include dominoes, quoits, soft building bricks and connect 4.