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St Bedes and Ashludie Wildflower Garden

Monifieth DD5 4RD
Neil Burford (M: 07791851845/E: neil.burford@newcastle.ac.uk) and Scott & Barbara Lindsay (M: 07874058963/E: wl011b2275@btinternet.com)

Current Openings:

Saturday/Sunday, 5/6 July, 11am - 4pm (2025)

Admission £8.00, children free.

Nominated charity: Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland 30% & Scottish Mountain Rescue 30%.

Description:

Ashludie Wildflower Garden (NEW) 10 Margaret Lindsay Place, Monifieth DD5 4RD (Scott and Barbara Lindsay): Striking, small garden consisting predominantly of native wildflowers. Dedicated to attracting wildlife and helping to replace our lost meadows. A homemade bee hotel, a small pond and about 40 types of wildflower aim to attract bees, butterflies, birds and other creatures. Nectar and pollen-rich "classic" wildflowers include greater knapweed, viper's bugloss, Valerian and musk mallow. The small front garden has plants to provide pollen for our earlier emerging pollinators. Plant stall includes garden-collected seed.

St Bedes Garden (NEW) 6 Ferry Road, Monifieth DD5 4NT (Neil Burford): St Bedes is a small urban plant lovers garden on a steep slope, enclosed by stone walls. Its design reflects the distant monastic history of the site and it integrates an ecology of native and non-native drought-tolerant trees, grasses and perennials suited to the dry sandy soil of its coastal location. Over the last 17 years, the current owners have extensively landscaped the site with a series of terraces and rooms connected by a winding central path and stairs. Inspired by prairie style planting and using a matrix ecology, the garden has year-round colour, texture and formal interest, with many unusual and rare bulbs, herbaceous perennials and trees. An Arbutus menzeii is a central focus of the main space.

Directions: Ashludie Wildlife Garden: Bus 73 from Arbroath or Dundee to Monifieth Tesco. Walk up North Union Street and then Victoria Street to garden - about 15 minutes. Or bus 73A to Ashludie Hospital - about 2 minutes walk to garden. Or buses X7 and 39 to Dobbies - about 15 minutes walk to garden. St Bedes Garden: Coming from Dundee, the house is 50 yards before the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Albert Street, 500 yards west of Monifieth centre on the north side of Ferry Road. Buses 73, 73A from Dundee and Carnoustie stop near the house.

Other details: Both gardens are easily accessible from the centre of Monifieth where there is adequate public parking and a railway station. National Cycle Route 1 passes through Monifieth between Dundee and Arbroath. The gardens are a 15 minute walk between each other. Ticket price includes entry to both gardens.

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