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Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, Perthshire
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The Kitchen Herb GardenThe 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.
If you are also planning a visit to Ireland the Castle Hotel Group in Dublin City Centre offer comfortable Georgian hotel accommodation.
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A Garden Diary by Innes Smith April 2008 An early brood of ducklings came….and went. They look so vunerable in their first few days out of the egg, almost like thistledown drifting across the water, and they are with all manner of things ready and waiting to eat them. However other females are still sitting and,with luck, the later broods will make it over these first few days and provide a spectacle on the ponds and lawns this summer. read on >
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