Explore Pittencrieff Park's gardens and glasshouses.

Laird's Garden

Laid out, colourfully in front of the glasshouses is a formal garden. In days gone by, this area was used by Pittencrieff House as a kitchen garden and orchard.

Now developed round the Laird’s Walk, with views of the Abbey and Palace ruins, the garden is full of colour throughout the spring and summer.

Kitchen garden

As part of the Heritage Lottery Funded project in 2016, this new Kitchen Garden was created with raised beds which are designed to enable easy access for all ages and abilities. It contains a wide variety of edible herbs, flowers and other plants which have medicinal, culinary or other health giving properties.

Rock and Japanese gardens

The Rock Garden was originally planted in the 1900s and then again in the 1950s. It contains some interesting trees and shrubs such as Metasequoias, Embothrium, Cryptomerias (Japanese Red Cedar) and Eucryphia.

Within the Japanese Garden, there is an oriental-style summerhouse, with eight open plan sides. It was constructed in 1906 and built as a landscape feature of the park.

The summerhouse is located in the designed landscape which includes cliffs, rustic steps and paths, planned viewpoints, seats and a bridge.

Glass house and Glassroom

Completing the formal gardens is the 200ft glasshouse conservatory. Built in 1973 on the site of the old conservatories, the present structure is divided into three sections.

The main area has a wooden bridge over the running stream, with an exotic plant world for visitors to enjoy. Distributed throughout the three areas, visitors can see plants from many countries on show.

The Glasshouses hold a variety of exotic and tropical plants. There's also an indoor pond and seating area where you can enjoy the peaceful atmosphere.

Green Garden and Glasshouses

We are committed to developing and improving our sustainable practices. We're already:

• Harvesting rainwater to use in the Glasshouses and Glassroom
• Composting green waste
• Trialling the use of peat free compost
• Using a more energy efficient heating system for the Glasshouses
• Mulching and chipping waste wood that can’t be used in any other way
• Reusing materials such as plant pots, containers, trays
• Thinking of new ways to use and adapt otherwise leftover or waste items such as wooden pallets, furniture and construction materials