NTS Documentary Reference Event

Date February 2013 - February 2013

Event ID 934058

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/934058

The gardens at the Pineapple, which were once part of the estate of Dunmore Park, consist of woodland, ponds and two walled gardens and cover an area of 6.5ha. A lack of documentary evidence for the original layout of the gardens means that the current gardens are loosely based upon the late 19th century layout.

The walled gardens, are actually a larger sub-divided walled garden. The larger western section was subdivided into ten compartments possibly partly by hedges, and in the southern compartment is an ornamental pond, now heavily silted up. The eastern section of the garden was shown in the 1863 map as an orchard; it is divided into two compartments, the southern end is now planted with trees.

Photographs from 1917 show that there was a path running east-west across the west Walled Garden flanked on each side by herbaceous planting. The Pineapple lay at the top of a wide lawn which was bordered by fruit trees, with glasshouses running along the north wall.

The walls of the garden are brick with freestone dressings; the north one having a double construction with honeycomb cavities through which hot air was circulated for the benefit of fruit trees. Behind the walls were furnaces every few yards, with those nearest to the Pineapple having their chimneys disguised as urns.

(Information from NTS, February 2013)

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