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Glasshouses and a peace garden.

Glasgow lives up to its name as the Dear Green Place. At the top of Byres Road, the botanic gardens are free every day, with great Victorian glasshouses full of palms, orchids and ferns. On the south side, a walled peace garden grows behind an arts centre on the site of the old tram works, a calm place to sit. Both are perfect for a break from the city streets.

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We've just added Eaglesham to the website.

A planned village begun in 1769, its two rows of houses facing each other across the Orry, a long common green with a burn running down it.

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We've just added Greenbank Garden to the website.

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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We've just added Rouken Glen Park to the website.

A park of 143 acres on the edge of Giffnock, south of Glasgow, with a waterfall in a wooded glen, a boating pond and a walled garden, voted the UK's Best Park in 2016.

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The Hidden Gardens.

This award-winning public green space is ostensibly a patiently nurtured garden on the site of what was once an old tram depot. But it’s far more than that. Working to promote peace, learning and intercultural dialogue, the garden holds events and activities that allow people of all beliefs and backgrounds to come together.

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Lunch14 hours agoGlasgowÒran Mór300 yardsGlasgowNic's NYC Deli300 yardsGlasgowCail Bruich300 yards

Lunch near Glasgow Botanic Gardens.

The three closest tables: Òran Mór, Nic's NYC Deli and Cail Bruich.

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From the magazine8 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 12Issue 12Spring / Summer 2026

Katie Rose Johnston, a ceramicist born in Shetland who makes her work in Glasgow, once stoked a kiln in Japan in shifts for three days and nights.

Katie, the maker behind Studio Manifesto, first met clay as a Sculpture student at Glasgow School of Art, when a kiln arrived in her third year, and her very first piece was a wee, or small, porcelain chair. Years later came a six-week residency at Shiro Oni studios in Onishi, Japan, firing its Anagama kiln, where potters took shifts to keep the fire stoked continually. 'The whole experience changed me and how I work, something had shifted so monumentally that it’s still hard to describe and took a long time to settle back to making after I got home'. She works in the studio her dad helped her build in his back garden, in the south of Glasgow.

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The Kibble Palace was first built at a house on Loch Long, and moved to Glasgow's Botanic Gardens in 1873.

Glasgow Botanic Gardens are in the West End of the city, and anyone can walk in. The great glasshouse, the Kibble Palace, was built for John Kibble's house at Coulport on Loch Long and was put up here in 1873. It reopened in 2006 after restoration, and inside is a collection of tree ferns from New Zealand and Australia.

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