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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Garden and estate. Standard prices without the optional 10% donation. Free for National Trust for Scotland members and, under the INTO reciprocal arrangement, National Trust members.
Garden with Threave House, on the days the house is open.
No charge for anyone.
Car park at the visitor centre off the A75 roundabout at Castle Douglas, with designated disabled parking. A separate road leads to the nature reserve and osprey platform.
Threave Garden is the National Trust for Scotland's teaching garden, home since 1960 to its School of Heritage Gardening, whose students have shaped 26 hectares of garden rooms around Threave House, an 1871 Baronial mansion shown as it was in the 1930s. There is a walled garden with glasshouses, a rose garden, a rockery, heather and woodland gardens and a famous spring show of some 200 kinds of daffodil, with views over the Galloway Hills, and the wider estate is a nature reserve of wetlands along the Dee, circled by an easy 1 1/4-mile walk from its own car park, with an osprey platform, hides, and Scotland's only bat reserve, home to eight species. Dogs on a lead are allowed in the garden and nature reserve, but not in the walled garden or play area. Reviewers praise the blue poppies, the accessible paths and the cafe. Tips from visitors: the house is run by volunteers on a few days a week, so check it is open; the garden is a mile west of Castle Douglas off the A75; and Threave Castle on its island is a separate Historic Environment Scotland site.
Garden and visitor centre open daily from 28 March to 31 October. Nature reserve open daily all year.
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Dogs, with restrictions
Starts and ends at Threave Nature Reserve car park; 1 1/4 miles (2km), 1 hour, easy, 21m ascent; wildlife hides and views of Threave Castle.
