Pitmedden Garden

An enchanting Scottish renaissance garden, all the better for the unexpectedness of its location. Despite the date of its construction, the enclosed simplicity of the layout is more renaissance than baroque. Records of the original parterre were lost and it was replanted in the 1950s, using plans of other seventeenth century Scottish gardens. They are baroque parterres but their setting produces an effect very different to that of a princely court. The Seton's family home was destroyed by fire in the nineteenth century. Thankfully, Pitmedden Garden survives.