GardenArgyll & ButeNational Trust for Scotland4.6
Free entry for National Trust members
This place is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, a separate charity. Under the INTO reciprocal visiting arrangement, National Trust members from England, Wales and Northern Ireland get free standard entry. Show your current membership card at admissions.
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Standard prices without the optional 10% donation. Free for National Trust for Scotland members and, under the INTO reciprocal arrangement, National Trust members.
No charge for anyone.
Tarmac car park at the reception hut, with bike racks beside the admissions hut. A bus stop is next to the entrance and Cardross station is a 20-minute walk.
Geilston Garden at Cardross is a small country-house garden on the north bank of the Clyde, typical of the estates Glasgow merchants built along the river, with a walled garden of 1797 dominated by a giant wellingtonia, a 40-metre herbaceous border, a rose garden and, beyond, a kitchen garden whose fruit, vegetables and cut flowers are sold at the gate in season. Paths lead down through woodland along the Geilston Burn, with a woodland adventure area for young children and an orchard, and the National Trust for Scotland has added an edible ornamental garden to the kitchen garden. Reviewers praise the gardeners for chatting about their vegetables and note there is a small hut selling drinks but no cafe or shelter from rain. Tips from visitors: the kitchen garden peaks from late summer, Cardross station is a 20-minute walk and a bus stops at the gate, parking is by the reception hut, and dogs are welcome on leads.
Open daily from 16 March to 31 October; closed 1 November to 28 February 2027.
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Dogs, with restrictions
Starts and ends at the admission hut in the car park; 1 1/4 miles (2km), 1 hour, moderate, 16m ascent; gravel and grass paths with steps.
