Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, Perthshire
PH16 5LY
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(+44) 01796 473036

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The Kitchen Herb Garden

The development of the kitchen herb garden is an exciting project. Not on the grandiose scale of the original walled garden but on a scale we can manage and develop to produce fresh herbs and some vegetables, daily, for the kitchen. We also grow an abundant supply of flowers for the hotel, Dhalias, Lilies and Delphiniums are particularly spectacular, both while they grow and arranged in the elegant interior of the Atholl Palace.

The herb garden, with a culinary bed and an aromatherapy bed, has also been designed as a place for gentle relaxation and is a natural sun-trap. Bird feeders attract large numbers of wild birds as well as several increasingly bold red squirrels. The rough areas have been seeded with wild flowers and the ancient fruit trees pruned back to encourage new productive shoots.

We have rustic seats in shady spots and a small pond attracts more wildlife.

The garden is open at all times, come along and enjoy it as it develops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Castle Hotel Group also has a collection of fine Dublin hotels and student accommodation in Dublin City Centre, self catering holiday homes in Scotland and a Hotel in Prestayn , North Wales

 

 

 

A Garden Diary by Innes Smith

February 2010

picture of February 2010

As we leave February and head in to March the snow and heavy frost is still here, 10 weeks without change.Daytime temperatures are beginning to pick up with figures of 6/7 deg occurring but after dark we are back to anything down to minus 10 deg. It is getting a bit tedious but it will change...nothing surer than that. read on >


Kenny tends the fruit trees in preparation for summer

rustic bench under an arch of leaves

autumn shapes in the herb garden