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1st April - 31st October; daily; 10 am - 5pm.
Feb, Mar; Weekends. 10am - 5pm
Guided walks available.
Sunday 16th June
April - October
Adults £5.50; Child £2.00; Over 60s £4.50.
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Friends of the Garden; Free
Disabled; Free
Some facilities for disabled.
Sculptured landforms and rhododendrons and herbaceous borders
Guided walks with Head Gardener throughout the season
Family events for all ages
Garden Ranger activities on weekly.
Open Air Theatre - two performances in Summer months
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Creebridge House Hotel, Minnigaff, Newton Stewart
Plantings, half a mile away.
The sixteenth century, but now ruined, castle is set in 75 acres of landscaped terraces and avenues and stands on a peninsula between two large natural lochs, the Black Loch and the White Loch. The gardens are famous not only for the collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and embothriums, but also for the Monkey Puzzle Avenue planted in about 1890 from the first imported seed. The garden is best understood as a Scots interpretation of Bridgeman's style.
The garden was laid out by the 2nd Earl of Stair, with work carried out by the Royal Scots Greys and the Inniskilling Fusiliers. Stair was a Field Marshall and the garden has 'military' grass terraces and a 2 acre circular lily pond.