Kailzie Gardens – A Walled Garden in the Tweed Valley
A few hours.
The route
Kailzie Gardens, just east of Peebles in the Tweed valley, are built round a walled garden behind early 19th-century walls, with deep borders, copper beech hedges and restored glasshouses full of fuchsias and pelargoniums.
Beyond the walls, paths follow the Kailzie Burn under rare and champion trees, where red squirrels live. The Courtyard Café cooks with what the walled garden grows, with log burners lit on a cool day.
Before you go
Book accommodation nearby
If you are staying over: here are ours nearest where the day starts and ends.
The day
Kailzie
An unhurried late morning in a walled garden and its woods, then lunch in the courtyard café.
About two and a half hours
Kailzie Gardens
An attraction
Kailzie Gardens is on the Kailzie Estate by Peebles, with parking on the estate. Garden entry is £6, and under-12s go free. From 1 September to 18 October it opens Wednesday to Friday, 11am to 3pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm, and it's shut on Mondays and Tuesdays. 18 October is its last day of the year, and the estate posts next season's dates on its website. In the walled garden, gravel paths run between herbaceous borders and copper beech hedges, past an old sundial, to the Victorian glasshouses, one of the earliest that Mackenzie and Moncur built, restored and full of fuchsias and pelargoniums. In late spring the Laburnum Walk turns gold. Outside the walls are woodland paths along the Kailzie Burn and an arboretum of rare and champion trees. Lunch is in the Courtyard Café, with espresso, brunch dishes, lunches and home baking, using the walled garden's produce where it can. It takes cards only, and you can book a table on 01721 724111.
If it rains
The glasshouses and the café are under a roof; the borders and the woodland paths are not, so in heavy rain keep to the glasshouses and a long lunch by the log burner.