***************************************************************** * Gardens-Guide.com * 250,000 UNIQUE VISITORS in 2011 * 2,000 garden pages viewed per day from March to September 2011 * * 1,000+ Page Views! - One-Quarter of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com * were EACH viewed more than 1,000 times in 2011. * * 500+ Page Views! - HALF of all gardens listed on Gardens-Guide.com were * EACH viewed more than 500 times in 2011. * ***************************************************************** *** UPDATE FORM *** Glenarn 1) Please COPY the entire FORM BELOW 2) Make any changes in BRIGHT RED -OR- mark changed Section Headers with: *** 3) email the ENTIRE FORM UPDATED backto us: wd (at) armchair-travel (dot) com **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** *** also - SEARCH ENGINE BOOSTING for both YOU and Gardens-Guide.com *** If your webmaster could place a link from your own website directly to your page on Gardens-Guide.com, this will improve it's rankings in Google and other search engines. Please use the following format and info on your own site to link to your page in Gardens-Guide.com: at Gardens-Guide.com http://www.gardens-guide.com The premiere directory of open gardens in the UK and Ireland today Ask your friends and suppliers as well to link to your page in Gardens-Guide as well. Every link we get into your page helps rankings for both of us in search engines. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** **************************************************************** Garden Name: Glenarn Last Modified: 11-01-2012 Garden ID: 0461 pic: 0461_Glenarn.jpg NOTE: If this says "missing", then please send us a picture for your page which is at least 1000 x 1000 pixels in size. Thanks! Owner: Michael Thornley Address: Rhu Helensburgh Dunbartonshire Postcode: G84 8LL County: Scotland tel: 01436 820493 fax: 0141 221 6834 website: www.gardens-of-argyll.co.uk email: masthome //at// dsl.pipex.com English Heritage Grade: Opening Times: (2010 dates) 21st Mar - 21st Sept; Dawn to dusk. Best Times of Year to Visit: March - June April August To see: Rhododendrons Tree magnolias Eucryphias National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: Special Open day under Scotland's Garden Scheme on first Sunday in May. Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Specialist Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: House Open for Viewing: No Comments: Admission Prices: (2010 prices) Adult £4; Child (over 5 years) £1.50; Over 60s £1.50; Season £20 (by arrangement) Parking: Yes Lavatories: No Disabled Access: No Shop: No Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: Yes Only on Lead: Yes Events: Yes Other Facilities: All Catering by prior arrangement and Guided Tours on request. Partial access for the disabled. Features: Glenarn is a West Coast garden with a world famous collection of Rhododendrons, Magnolias and other ericaceous plants. Set in a steep sided glen, the garden has a Himalayan character, but also has a pond, rock garden and vegetable patch as well as bee hives. Re-construction of potting shed, cold frame and shade house to be completed shortly. Designer: The Gibson family Description of Garden: This sheltered woodland garden overlooks the Gareloch and is well-known for its collection of rhododendrons, many of them rare and difficult to grow in less well-protected locations. Its trees, shrubs and beautiful magnolias, with a carpet of snowdrops, daffodils, crocus and primulas below make for a delightful walk in Spring. Later on in May, the Magnolia wilsonii with its upside-down flowers and lily of the valley scent and magnolia globosa are not to be missed. Other magnolias, such as hypoleuca, flower in June. History: The House at Glenarn was built in the late 1830's and soon after the garden received plants from Joseph Hooker's 1849-50 expedition to Sikkim, notably the Rhododendron falconeri at the side of the house. The garden was extended by the Gibson family over the following 50 years after they acquired the property in 1927. The plant hunting expeditions of Kingdom Ward and Ludlow & Sherriff provided a great many plants as did other major gardens in Scotland. The Thornley family arrived at Glenarn in 1983 to find much to be done to restore the gardens to their former glory and then to extend their scope still further, work which is continuing. Local Inns: Clachan Inn, Drymen (20m. W. of Stirling) Accomodation: Ardencaple Hotel, Rhu Rosslee Hotel, Rhu Commadore Hotel, Helensburgh Restaurants: Le Jardin, Helensburgh Village/Town/Sightseeing: