By kind permission of the Trustees of the Hospitalfield Trust, our popular Annual Plant Sale will be held in their grounds. The house has monastic origins from the 13th century and was remodelled in the Arts and Crafts style in the 19th century by Elizabeth Allan-Fraser and her husband, the artist Patrick Allan-Fraser. The horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett redesigned the garden which was planted in 2021. His brief, to tell 800 years of garden history, includes a physic garden, orchard and wide mixed borders. The 19th century addition of the Fernery has been restored thanks to the work of Caruso St John Architects. At the sale, Hospitalfield will launch _I May Never See You_, an artist’s project by Rebecca Chesney which aims to develop a seed bank devoted to kidney vetch and conservation of the Small Blue butterfly. As always, the sale will have a good selection of plants sourced from private gardens and local nurseries. Donations of plants will be welcome either in advance (please use the email address above to arrange delivery) or on the day. If you are potting up plants, please use sterile potting compost; we cannot accept plants in garden soil.
This is a fundraising event for the open garden charity Scotland’s Gardens Scheme which raises money for hundreds of local charities.