RHS Mount Stuart Gardens
Owned by The Mount Stuart Trust, Mount Stuart’s 300-acre gardens and grounds are home to a spectacular botanic collection of native and exotic flora, which give life to several gardens with distinct personalities including a mature Victorian pinetum; a two-acre rock garden designed by Thomas Mawson; a 'wee' garden of five acres, planted with tender exotics from Australia and New Zealand; a kitchen garden redesigned by the late Lord Bute with help from Rosemary Verey; and the newly opened Calvary Garden, restored this year using the recently discovered original Thomas Mawson plans found in Mount Stuart’s archives.
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Activities at RHS Mount Stuart Gardens include:
- Gardens
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Argyll and Bute
PA20 9LR
Gallery
Gardens
Age Appropriate
- Children
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- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
Important botanical specimens and champion rhododendrons grow alongside plants endangered in their native habitats, including 16 National Champion Trees. This unique designed landscape hosts a further 80 county champion trees, each finding their home at Mount Stuart. Add in the relics of an 18th century landscape, a tropical greenhouse, acres of seasonal bulb displays of daffodils and bluebells, established rhododendrons and some recent improvements by James Alexander-Sinclair, and you have the measure of a long and fascinating visit.