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Fife

Walled gardens, woods and snowdrops.

Fife's gardens are a real treat, from the first snowdrops of the year right through to the colours of autumn. You'll find walled gardens behind old castles, terraced gardens that have been growing for centuries, a woodland estate famous for its snowdrops, and a cheerful little garden planted in old wellington boots on a harbour slipway. Many have a café or a tearoom close by, and most are easy to combine with a castle, a village or a walk on the coast. Take your time, and go on a bright day.

The Hanging Gardens Culross→
Cambo Gardens→
St Monans Welly Boot Garden→
Kellie Castle & Garden→
Aberdour Castle and Gardens→
Garden of the day16 hours ago

Aberdour Castle and Gardens.

A castle begun in the 1100s and extended over 500 years by three noble families, with terraced gardens, an orchard and a great beehive doocot.

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From the magazine13 hours ago

Each August, the Fife fishing town of Pittenweem holds a week-long arts festival, with artists showing their work everywhere from front rooms to garden sheds.

Pittenweem, in the East Neuk of Fife, is one of the most charming of the area's fishing villages, with whitewashed houses, pantile roofs and crowstep gables. For one week each summer, homes and venues large and small all over town turn into galleries for a brilliant visual arts festival. The rest of the year it is a living, working fishing town. Fishing boats still come back into the harbour early each morning as the covered fish market starts up on the quay, so if you stay over, it is worth getting up to watch them come in.

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Lunch10 hours agoFifeBàern Cafe0.6 milesFifePittenweem Chocolate Company1.6 milesFifeThe Dory, Pittenweem1.6 miles

Lunch near St Monans Welly Boot Garden.

The three good places closest to it: Bàern Cafe, Pittenweem Chocolate Company and The Dory, Pittenweem.

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From our guide7 hours ago

Cambo Gardens.

A grand country estate with a Georgian walled garden and burn-threaded woodland, Cambo sits some eight miles east of St Andrews. It’s particularly renowned for its snowdrops, with more than 350 varieties, but it’s a fine place to explore at any time of year – and the Lost Elf Village play area caters for little ones.

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Gardens4 hours ago

The Hanging Gardens Culross.

Cared for by the National Trust, the Hanging Gardens at Culross Palace incorporate many of the features typical of 17th-century gardens

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From the magazine1 hour agoThe printed copy of Issue 10Issue 10Spring / Summer 2025

Parts of Aberdour Castle in Fife, among them its kitchen, stables and gallery, were used as filming locations for Outlander.

The castle's real story is every bit as dramatic. Over four hundred years it grew from a small hall house into a 15th-century tower house, and it was extended again in the 17th century. Three generations of noble families lived there, among them James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, Regent of Scotland. A fire in the late 17th century and a second in 1715, when government soldiers were stationed there during the Jacobite Rising, did great damage, and in time it fell into disrepair. Today Historic Environment Scotland looks after it, and you can still see the painted Renaissance ceiling of heraldry, fruit and foliage in the East range.

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Kellie Castle & Garden.

A castle of the 1300s near Pittenweem, saved from ruin by the artistic Lorimer family, with ornate plaster ceilings and an Arts and Crafts garden of old roses.

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