St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum & Garden
12 North Street, St Andrews, KY16 9PW
The Museum’s Garden is a hidden treasure in the heart of the historic quarter of St Andrews and is a great place to relax and enjoy the sunshine.
It includes the D’Arcy Thompson Garden which was created in 1996 in memory of the Eminent Professor of Natural History at the University of St Andrews. As part of their Community Garden Project, the Beechgrove Garden “Hit Squad” helped to establish this area of the garden. The roses are in memory of D’Arcy’s wife and the herb garden in his memory.
Tucked away in the far corner is a two-seater privy, which provides much amusement for staff and visitors. Dating back to the 19th century, it is believed to be the last remaining example of its type in St Andrews.
The main garden features a pair of Victorian cast iron shop front pillars that originally formed part of T T Fordyce’s on South Street. These were gifted by his daughter, Mrs Frances Room. Towards the far end of the garden is the pavement mosaic from the Maypole Dairy of Market Street and a fine stone seat designed and built by members of the Central branch of the Scottish Dry Stone Wall Association in 2017.
This month, an engraved stone, with text, was installed, which was unearthed during excavation work for The Falconry. The Falconry is a splendid wooden store named after its benefactress and was constructed by local woodworker Peter Kushner, using Fife green oak from Newburgh and boasting a living sedum roof to benefit insects and birds.
Finally, the splendid Sensory Garden was designed and constructed by students from Elmwood Campus in 2017 as part of their Community Projects Scheme. It offers a unique experience with areas to stimulate hearing, vision, touch and smell.
On Sunday 5th May, the St Andrews Preservation Trust will open this secluded garden, together with many others in the town, as part of the annual ‘Hidden Gardens of St Andrews’ event.
Website: www.standrewspreservationtrust.com
Telephone: 01334 477629
Opening times: The garden is open for the ‘Hidden Gardens of St Andrews’ event on Sunday 5th May and re-opens for the season from 25th May.
Admission costs: Free entry (donations always welcome)
Garden of the Week is in association with Discover Scottish Gardens. For more information, advice and day-out ideas, visit discoverscottishgardens.org.uk
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here