The July Garden visit will be to Kirkton Manor Garden, another garden open for charity under the Scotland's Gardens Scheme, on Wednesday 9th July.  

Kirkton Manor House has a delightful, three-acre, informal country garden set in the beautiful Manor Valley. It enjoys spectacular open views and calling curlews from its riverside position. Bluebells flank the impressive entrance leading to a new shrub border. Stone steps continue through to terraced slopes filled with bulbs, roses and hellebores providing height, interest and fragrance. Grass paths meander along the burn where snowdrops, blue and white camassia, meconopsis, and ligularia thrive in this sunny meadow environment. Later, in June, sisyrinchiums, irises, orchids and many flowering shrubs and roses are abundant. The natural woodland includes many interesting trees.

Directions: Turn off the A72 west of Neidpath Castle, signposted to Kirkton Manor. After crossing the River Tweed, enter a garden gate which is a mile downhill, opposite a Beware Horses sign.

As the garden opens at 1.00pm, we will lunch beforehand in nearby Peebles, venue to be arranged.  It does mean that those who use the City Bypass may get caught up in the rush hour, though some of us can go cross country so avoiding the Bypass.