View of nursery beds and greenhouse from West. Digital image of D 47438 CN.

Description View of nursery beds and greenhouse from West. Digital image of D 47438 CN.

Date 28/7/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 757733

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 47438 CN

Scope and Content Nursery beds and greenhouse from west, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows the kitchen garden which lies beyond the castle's famous formal gardens. Low stone walls surround the nursery beds which are used to rear plants to maturity before they are transferred to the main garden. Against the brick wall, the lean-to greenhouse contains a vine to provide grapes for the castle. 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 the Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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