点评:This review covers Falkland Palace’s gardens, although we have visited the Palace on a number of occasions and it never fails to impress! We had the good fortune of attending an evening garden tour with the former Head Gardener, which allowed us to see the splendour and feel the atmosphere of what surely must be one of the National Trust for Scotland’s top 5 gardens. The gardens cover nine acres overall, beautifully complementing the palace buildings, with the borrowed landscape of the Lomond Hills just beyond. The main feature are the restored Percy Cane-designed, Arts & Crafts-inspired formal gardens. With mature specimen trees and large island beds of shrubs and herbaceous plantings, this garden has a wonderful, calming atmosphere. It is beautifully maintained by the Trust gardeners and its vast and deep herbaceous borders are probably at their best during July and August, a blast of colour. Beyond the enormous cut-leaved beech, there is a lovely lily pond garden and beyond, a floriferous cuttings garden. To the west of these formal gardens lie the orchard, with its heritage fruit trees and carpeted with a beautiful wild flower meadow, accessed by winding mown grass paths. This area has a very different, more natural feel, and is alive with bees and butterflies. While there are capacious lawns to stroll over in the formal garden, the Trust has encouraged more wildflower areas to thrive, boosting biodiversity in the process. This is an historic property so do make an allowance for the ongoing projects to restore the picturesque greenhouse and the bridge connecting the formal garden and the orchard. Do look out for the acrobatic swallows and occasional red squirrel and, if you can, take time to stroll around the historic village of Falkland itself, where there is no shortage of places to eat!
翻译:这篇评论主要关注福克兰宫的花园,尽管我们之前多次参观过这座宫殿,它总是令人印象深刻!我们有幸参加了前首席园丁的夜间花园之旅,让我们得以领略其壮丽的景色,感受其氛围,这座花园无疑是苏格兰国民信托五大花园之一。花园总面积九英亩,与宫殿建筑相得益彰,远处洛蒙德山的景色更是锦上添花。花园的特色是由珀西·凯恩设计的、受工艺美术风格启发的正式花园,经过修复。花园里种植着成熟的标本树木,以及由灌木和草本植物组成的大型岛状花坛,营造出一种美妙而宁静的氛围。花园由国民信托的园丁精心维护,广阔而深邃的草本植物边界在七月和八月可能达到最佳状态,色彩缤纷。在巨大的切叶山毛榉树丛之外,有一个美丽的百合池花园,再往前,是一个繁花似锦的插花花园。这些正式花园的西边是果园,园内种植着传统的果树,还有一片美丽的野花草地,可通过修剪整齐的蜿蜒草径进入。这片区域给人一种截然不同的自然感觉,蜜蜂和蝴蝶在这里翩翩起舞。虽然正式花园里有宽阔的草坪可供漫步,但信托基金鼓励种植更多野花,以此来提升生物多样性。这是一处历史遗迹,因此请留意正在进行的修复工程,包括修复风景如画的温室以及连接正式花园和果园的桥梁。一定要留意那些翩翩起舞的燕子和偶尔出现的红松鼠。如果可以的话,不妨花点时间在历史悠久的福克兰村漫步,那里有很多餐厅!