National Trust places in Scottish Borders

Free walled garden in Melrose with lawns, scented borders and one of Scotland's oldest bulb lawns, looking to the abbey and the Eildons.

Walled garden in the precinct of Melrose Abbey, once Scotland's only dried-flower garden, with a heritage orchard of 70 apple varieties.

Britain's oldest working letterpress printer, unchanged since 1866, where a 90-minute tour lets you set type and watch the presses run.

Sheer Berwickshire cliffs alive with tens of thousands of nesting seabirds, a four-mile loop to the lighthouse and the Mire Loch, and a Nature Centre.