Fife

The Kingdom of Fife has a unique landscape with unique gardens: Kinross House, Falkland Palace, Hill of Tarvit, Kellie Castle and Cambo Gardens. Like Fife itself, each has a splendid isolation.


Cambo Gardens
Cambo Gardens » A Victorian walled garden laid out around the Cambo burn to supply the house with fruit, flowers and vegetables. There is an ornamental potager, rare plants and a well-known snowdrop collection. Read more on Cambo Gardens »


Kellie Castle and Garden
Kellie Castle and Garden » A fourteenth century castle and garden, restored in the nineteenth century. The Arts and Crafts garden at Kellie Castle was designed by Robert Lorrimer in 1880, for his parents. It has gravel and grass paths, box-edged beds, herbaceous borders and old roses. Read more on Kellie Castle and Garden »


Hill of Tarvit House Garden
Hill of Tarvit House Garden » A house and garden, designed by Robert Lorrimer in 1906, The garden is in the Arts and Crafts style with a terrace, a rose garden, yew hedging and appropriate planting. Read more on Hill of Tarvit House Garden »


Falkland Palace Garden
Falkland Palace Garden » A ruined sixteenth century royal palace, with a twentieth century garden. The Falkland Palace Garden garden was designed in the 1946, in an Arts and Crafts manner, by Percy Cane. It has mixed borders, yew hedges, a lily pond and an outdoor chess board. Read more on Falkland Palace Garden »


Kinross House Garden
Kinross House Garden » A late-seventeenth century house, by Sir William Bruce, with a walled garden. JC Loudon was here in 1842 and remarked that 'The whole place has been unoccupied for nearly half a century; but the walls being substantial, it might be restored at a moderet expense, and be one of the finest things of the kind in Scotland'. The house and garden were restored in the early twentieth century and the walled garden is now laid out in an Arts and Crafts manner. The central axis centres on the island in Loch Leven where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisioned. Loudon complained that recent tree planting would obscure views of the castle but expected that 'the proprietor, when he comes of age, will, we trust,..... Read more on Kinross House Garden »