Monteviot House Gardens

About the garden

The Gardens at Monteviot lie along a dramatic slope of the Teviot Valley. The box-hedged herb garden and terrace along the front of the house have a breathtaking view of the river below. Italianate in inspiration, the sheltered terraced rose garden is Victorian: the river garden at the bottom was originally designed in the 1930s by Percy Cane.

A laburnum arch leads to the water garden, where three islands are linked by elegant curved wooden bridges and planted with bog plants and bamboos. The Garden of Persistent Imagination at Monteviot is the most adventurous of all the gardens recently developed – an eclectic mixture of natural stone structures, a climbing rose and clematis avenue and an area of meditation leading to a large stone Moon Gate.