RHS Pitmedden Garden
Pitmedden Garden, known as the ‘The Great Garden’, dates back to 1675 when founder Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet of Pitmedden laid out the foundations of his walled paradise. The garden was a magnificent formal geometric layout comprised of pavilions, fountains and four main parterres. It had been passed down through the generations until the Keith family bought the property in 1894 at auction. It was run by Major James Keith and his wife Margaret until 1952 when he felt he could no longer care for the property in the same manner and bequeathed it to the National Trust for Scotland along with a generous endowment to help maintain it.
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Aberdeenshire
AB41 7PD
Gallery
Gardens
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
At the time of the handover the Keiths had transformed the garden into that typical of a kitchen/working market style with fruits and vegetables growing in abundance. The new head gardener George Barron, with the guidance of Dr James Richardson, re-designed and transformed the garden back to a layout more synonymous of a traditional 17th Century style.