04/05/2026
We recommend a walk to the shore in the woodland grounds before or after dinner (the evenings are lengthening). It’s not a formal or grand garden but a working labour of love to create better biodiversity and framed by an exceptional borrowed landscape. Read more below (or browse the printed garden notes in our lounges over your pre dinner drink!).
Every October, hotelier Fiona makes a garden list. For the winter closed season
This year's list included the complete defeat of the gorse, the total vanquishing of the brambles, immaculate hedges by mid-March, and — the centrepiece — a magnificent sweep of tulips across the garden slopes.
The deer got the tulips.
The spring garden notes are now available in our lounges. A blog journal piece on the same is available at eddrachilles.com :
🌺the Glendoick rhododendrons approaching full maturity after a decade in the ground,
💨the gales that flattened the early daffodils and accidentally improved everything that came after,
🪴a Polycrub in seasonal transition, and
🦌the ongoing challenge of deer management when the deterrent who held the line since 2017 is no longer with us.
Also: James and the Giant 🍑Gorse.
Bydand , our late lamented Gordon Setter, would not have tolerated any of this deer intrusion for a moment. His successor arrives at the end of May.
In the meantime, crepuscular torch circuits continue. The hinds are unmoved.
🌿 Find it under Journal at eddrachilles.com or at the foot of the site’s homepage.