What is recorded here
Marian Buchanan: walled garden, 1780s: marble walls, citrus pots, forced peas, kitchen for castle feasts. Maria may have walked the bed at dawn, lifting flour from pea shoots.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Buchanan Castle, Walled Garden as Walled Garden (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Buchanan Castle, Walled Garden is associated with Buchanan Castle, a 16th-century tower house built by the Buchanan family, a prominent Scottish noble family. The walled garden is important as an example of historic landscape design linked to the castle's estate and reflects the agricultural and horticultural practices of the period.
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