View of fruit cages from South.

Description View of fruit cages from South.

Date 1/4/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number D 47425 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 757734

Scope and Content Fruit cages from south, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows the fruit cages in the kitchen garden, with rows of glasshouses against the garden walls beyond. These high walls hide the area from the elaborate formal garden next to the castle. The fruit cages are built of timber frames hung with netting to protect strawberries, raspberries, currants and other soft fruits from birds and rabbits. The kitchen garden occupies 1.61 hectares, and still provides the estate with a supply of fruits and vegetables, as well as flowers and plants to decorate the castle rooms as it did in its Victorian heyday. Exotic fruits and flowers grown in heated glasshouses were especially popular, and a large staff of skilled gardeners was needed to ensure a steady supply of these luxury items. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex of buildings visible today consist of a gatehouse which was added in 1630-6 by architect John Mylne III (1611-67) and an L-plan mansion built for the 4th Earl of Perth in 1689. The mansion was extended in the 18th or early 19th century, and remodelled in Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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