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Monday 10:30am - 4pm Thursday 10:30am - 4pm Friday 10:30am - 4pm Saturday 10:30am - 4pm Sunday 10:30am - 4pm

Pitmedden Garden NTS

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Pitmedden Garden and Museum of Farming Life

Historic Walled Garden, Historic Museum, Shop and Tearoom, Events, Art & Sculpture Exhibitions

01/06/2026

🪻 Recently, both our "Black Swan" Irises and "Rosea Plena" Paeonias have been looking stunning with vivid and popping colours.

29/05/2026

🪴 Last year we introduced Iris germanica var. florentina (Florentine Iris) into our herb garden and it is now flowering. While the flowers emit a subtle floral scent, it's the roots or rhizomes that hold the real marvel. Freshly dug, the roots have only a faint earthy, slightly bitter scent, but when dried and left to age for several years, their chemistry changes and they develop a most amazing and long lasting scent of violets.

Historically, dried pieces of the root were placed in linen cupboards and laundry chests to repel insects and to scent clothes. They were also used to flavour wine, most notably Chianti wine from Tuscany. Their primary use however was as a finely ground powder known as Orris Root powder.

In this form it served as a vital fixative to stabilise volatile scents in high-end perfumes. It was also widely used in hair powder to perfume and whiten the elaborate wigs that were fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries. Hair powder made from Orris Root became an important symbol of wealth and status.

Orris Root was also a key ingredient in inks. Mixed together with iron sulphate it produced a dark and lightfast pigment which was widely used to make black writing ink.

Florentine Iris is a natural hybrid of the Mediterranean and was for centuries cultivated, processed and traded in Florence, hence its name. Come and see it in the herb garden at Pitmedden!

27/05/2026

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀!

🍎 Looking ahead to later this year, our ever popular Apple Sunday extravaganza will be held in September.

We are looking for more stall holders as we are planning on running the event across a full weekend.

📧 If you are interested in joining us for one or both days, please contact our site manager Claire with your details and a link to your business page, via: [email protected]

26/05/2026

🌸 The apple arch by the herb garden is still showing the last of the apple blossom – however, most of the colour in the garden just now is coming from the carnassias.

14/05/2026

This weekend in the tearoom we have homemade fruit scones with jam & clotted cream and homemade cheese scones. There are also almond & cherry slices if you fancy something different!

The tearoom is open Thu–Mon, 10.30am-4pm, last orders 3.45pm.

11/05/2026

🦦 Get your votes in now over at the National Trust for Scotland page for the Scottish Animal World Cup!

🦜 32 species will go head-to-head in matches across Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until the final on the 15th July. Today it's the Otter vs the Willow Tit.

Which species is the favourite and will come out on top?

06/05/2026

🍎 Pomona was the Roman goddess of orchards and fruit. Her image, carved in stone, adorned many great gardens of the past. She was a wood nymph (hamadryad), but her true passion was the cultivation of orchards, tending to fruit trees by pruning and grafting them with great skill and care.

🌸 She is often depicted with a pruning knife and a cornucopia of fruit, symbols of her work through the seasons, from the bare branches of winter through the abundant blossom in spring to the glorious fruit in autumn. Come and see "Pomona's work" at Pitmedden Garden and enjoy the beauty of the apple blossom at its best!

04/05/2026

👩🏻‍🌾 We are creating a pattern with perennial salvias that will be filled with our annual bedding once the danger of frost has passed. 🌸

02/05/2026

☀️ Enjoy the sunshine in our gardens with one of our Strawberry Matcha iced lattes or lemonades!

🥪 Our special on at the moment is a Chicken & Bacon club toastie with side salad, crisps, and carrot & red cabbage kraut.

The tearoom is open Thu–Mon, 10am-4pm, last entry 3.30pm.

30/04/2026

🍫 Now available in the tearoom: Gluten-free Belgian Chocolate Brownies and Lemon & Blueberry Blondies!

The tearoom is open Thursday–Monday, 10am–4pm, last entry at 3.30pm.

Address

Pitmedden House
Ellon
AB417PD

Opening Hours

Monday	10:30am - 4pm
Thursday	10:30am - 4pm
Friday	10:30am - 4pm
Saturday	10:30am - 4pm
Sunday	10:30am - 4pm

Telephone

+441651842352

Website

https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/pitmedden-garden

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