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Greenbank House, a pale Georgian mansion, across a wide lawn framed by clipped yews under a blue sky.
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Greenbank Garden

A National Trust for Scotland garden in Clarkston, around a Georgian house of the 1760s, with a walled garden of more than 3,600 named plants and woodland walks.

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Welcome

There's something special about a walled garden on a summer's afternoon, and Greenbank feels a world away from the suburbs of Glasgow's south side, though they lie less than a mile off.

The house went up in the 1760s, and the walled garden was built with it to grow fruit and vegetables for the kitchen. Today it is planted to give home gardeners ideas, with more than 3,600 named plants and a National Collection of bergenias.

Come in spring for the daffodils, around 545 varieties of them in the walled garden and the woods. Tall beeches and Scots pines shelter the whole place, and woodland walks wind round it. The National Trust for Scotland has cared for it since 1976. The garden opens daily from April to the end of October, the café has seats indoors and out, and dogs are welcome.

Before you go

The garden opens daily from April to the end of October, 10am to 4.30pm, with last entry at 4pm, and closes for the winter from November.

The café, shop and courtyard keep longer hours and stay open through most of the winter. Entry is £10 for an adult and £5 for a child, and free for National Trust for Scotland members. Dogs are welcome, and there is parking at the garden.

Where
Flenders Road, Clarkston, G76 8RB.
Garden
Daily April to October, 10am to 4.30pm.
Entry
£10 adult, £5 child, members free.
Dogs
Welcome.
By train
Clarkston station, about a 30-minute walk.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
10am–4.30pm
Tuesday
10am–4.30pm
Wednesday
10am–4.30pm
Thursday
10am–4.30pm
Friday
10am–4.30pm
Saturday
10am–4.30pm
Sunday
10am–4.30pm
Where it is

Off Flenders Road in Clarkston, G76 8RB, six miles south of the centre of Glasgow.

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