Walled Garden and Fernery Tour 2025

Name: Walled Garden and Fernery Tour 2025
Start: 2025-08-09T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-10T00:00:00+01:00
Location: Hospitalfield Garden Cafe

Walled Garden & Fernery Tour: Each monthly garden tour offer visitors an opportunity to delve deeper into the story of Hospitalfield’s garden and learn about different seasonal themes. £6 Tours are timed around lunch, and we advise you to

Friday, 4 July 2025
+ 3 more dates

12:30pm ‐ 1:15pm

Hospitalfield Garden Cafe
Hospitafield House, Westway, Arbroath, DD11 2NH

Information

Garden Tour Themes for 2025:
*May: Spring Bulbs and How to Build a Community Around a Garden
June: The Physic Garden
July: Sensory Tour that focuses on the sight, sound, feel and scent of the garden
Aug: Nigel Dunnett’s design and Sustainable Gardening for Biodiversity
Sept: Our Victorian Fernery and Fern-mania
Oct: Heritage Apples and our Wild Flower Orchard

Join our knowledgeable volunteer guide as they lead you around the walled garden at Hospitalfield. Designed by the horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett, and opened to the public in 2021. Our gardener has been working on the development of a new medicinal garden.

Our Physic Garden consists of 16 rectangular beds laid out in a traditional monastic quadrant. The beds are filled with medicinal herbs, many of which may also be considered ‘monastic’ as many would have been cultivated in monasteries or foraged by the monks living in them.

Find out more about the garden work being done here today and hear about the unique horticultural history of the site at Hospitalfield, which has been tended as a garden for over 800 years.