Harmony Garden and house in 2021
The Harmony Garden is the garden of Harmony Hall which is in the town of
Melrose Melrose may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
* Melrose, Scottish Borders, a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
** Melrose Abbey, ruined monastery
** Melrose RFC, rugby club
Australia
* Melrose, Queensland, a locality in the South Burnett R ...
, in the
Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the we ...
, administered by the
National Trust for Scotland
The National Trust for Scotland () is a Scottish Building preservation and conservation trusts in the UK, conservation organisation. It is the largest membership organisation in Scotland and describes itself as "the charity that cares for, sha ...
.
History
The hall was built in about 1807 by
Robert Waugh who had made his money, before slavery was abolished, farming limes and pimento on a plantation in Jamaica. Waugh was to claim over £3,000 for his losses when slavery was abolished in the British empire.
He was said to be a recluse who only went outside to go hunting.
[ He left his Scottish properties to his nieces when he died at the hall on 27 December 1832.][
The National Trust for Scotland received the house and gardens in 1996.]
Description
The high walled garden is within the town and cover 3.5 acres. The gardens are divided into different areas. The hall is at the north end facing south.[
The trust allows free access to visitors to the gardens while the hall is a holiday let.][ The trust has three further properties in the Scottish Borders. Priorwood Garden is also in Melrose, whereas ]Robert Smail's Printing Works
Robert Smail's Printing Works is a fully functional Victorian era letterpress printing works in the small Scottish Borders town of Innerleithen, now preserved by The National Trust for Scotland as an Industrial Heritage museum showing visitors t ...
is in Innerleithen
Innerleithen () is a civil parish and a small town in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders. It was formerly in the historic county of Peeblesshire or Tweeddale.
Etymology
The name "Innerleithen" comes from the Scottish G ...
and the other is the St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve.
The Borders Book Festival takes place here each summer.
See also
*Gardens in Scotland
Gardening in Scotland, the design of planned spaces set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature in Scotland began in the Middle Ages.
Gardens, or yards, around medieval abbeys, castles and houses were ...
*List of places in the Scottish Borders
''Map of places in the Scottish Borders compiled from this list'':See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties.
This list of places in the Scottish Borders includes towns, villages, hamlet (place), hamlets, castles, golf courses ...
*List of places in Scotland
This list of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland.
*List of burghs in Scotland
*List of census localities in Scotland
*List of islands of Scotland
**List of Shetland islands
**List of Orkney islands
**List o ...
References
External links
National Trust for Scotland: Harmony Garden
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Gardens in the Scottish Borders
National Trust for Scotland properties
Melrose, Scottish Borders