GardenGlasgowNational Trust for Scotland4.5
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.
Free car park of around 30 spaces on the drive off Flenders Road, with disabled parking beside visitor reception and coach parking on the main drive.
Greenbank Garden is a walled garden of two and a half acres behind a Georgian house in Clarkston, less than a mile from Glasgow's southern suburbs, built in the 1760s for Robert Allason, a merchant whose money came from tobacco and the slave trade. The National Trust for Scotland runs it as a demonstration garden for West Coast domestic gardeners, with more than 3,600 named plants in a maze of hedged compartments, a National Collection of Bergenia, daffodils and bluebells in spring and long borders through summer, and woodland walks around the outside that are free to use. The house itself is no longer open. Reviewers call it a hidden treasure with benches in every corner and rate the June displays highly, though they wish more plants were labelled. Tips from visitors: the car park holds about 30 cars, the entrance is a signposted drive off Flenders Road, dogs are welcome in the woodland and cafe but not the walled garden, and it closes from November to March.
Garden, cafe and shop open daily from 1 April to 31 October; garden closed 1 November to 28 February 2027. Woodland walks open daily from 5 January to 20 December.
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Dog friendly
From Greenbank car park to the courtyard cafe; 1/3 mile (0.6km), 15 minutes, easy gravel path suitable for wheelchairs; an outer loop over rooty woodland floor takes longer.
