A traditional, hedged, Scottish family garden with an interesting combination of sculpture, herbaceous plants, shrubs, annuals and fruit. It is surrounded by fine specimen trees, which provide remarkable shelter, planted in the 1880s, including several majestic Wellingtonias and Thujas. There are also smaller ornamental garden trees, especially on the west side of the tennis court.  There is a willow at the end of the grass walk which was a cutting given to Lady Ramsay of a willow overhanging Napoleon’s grave on St Helena.  This tree and hedge shelter enables a wonderful flowering garden, plus the most northern most example known of Californica Carpenteria, half way down the grass walk on the south side.   

In recent years the Victorian greenhouses have been totally rebuilt using hardwood, the Kitchen Garden has been renewed with raised beds, a Sculpture Garden has been created within a few parts of the garden (don’t miss Clarice from the film “the Silence of The Lambs” in her temple cum dungeon at the back of the small greenhouse), the walk from the small greenhouse towards the main house has been changed to have White Poplar, lavender, and a new hedge on the south side.  Turn right at the end to see a new tall entrance gate with a new yew hedge, plus Hydrangeas opposite it.

In the grounds of Bughtrig Gardens is the recently opened Admiral Ramsay Museum, which has been created in memory of all who served at D-Day, Dunkirk and during World War II.  Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay commanded the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940 then the naval part of the D-Day Landings in Normandy in 1944. The museum’s aim is to educate today’s children, whose grandparents are too young to pass on memories of it, about these important operations for securing Western Europe’s freedom.