Shop and walk at Crarae Garden’s Christmas special

As a charity, Crarae Gardens needs the support of its local and dispersed communities. It also uses its imagination to create events and services that its supporters welcome.

One of these is its Christmas Event at the Gardens. On 6th and 7th December (Saturday and Sunday) the Visitor Centre will be open from 10.00am – 5.00pm with a specially chosen selection of gifts in the shop -  cashmere, Ness handbags (no hidden monsters – honest) and a range of National Trust for Scotland products. These include stocking fillers, toys, books, stationery and confectionery.

The Gardens’ own nursery has also prepared plants for a featured All-at-£1 Plant Sale. These can be presents too, of course, and sometimes the sort of present one gives oneself.

The Gardens themselves will be open, displaying winter flowering shrubs like witch hazel with some early rhodendrons in flower.

The whole event creates the opportunity to avoid the hassle of crowds and car parking, browse among unusual potential gifts and tick off some names on the annual Christmas present list. Then a walk in these characterful MId Argyll Gardens gets fresh air into the lungs and a sense of celebration in the plant life putting out flowers at this time of the year. How do they do it?

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