The following extracts are taken from the book Gardens of Northumberland and the Borders written by Susie White, and are reproduced here with her kind permission.

Unusually, the Kitchen Garden (Walled) is set on quite a steep slope. Angled to the south and west, this gives lovely views up a double herbaceous border to the little gothic Orangery at the top (designed by Scott with John Smith).

Behind the borders, the space is divided up into quadrants with vegetable and fruit beds. Looking back down the garden from here, one gets the best view of the house with its multi towers and turrets, its crow stepped gables and romantic architecture.

A little bridge leads over the ‘moat’ through the line of cloister arches through which red roses peep, and down into the Morris Garden. This is named after a character from Rob Roy whose kneeling statue is in the middle of the lawn…. At one end a little flagged path leads around the back of herbaceous borders (originally a greenhouse).