Jura House Gardens Gallery
Jan 7th, 2011 by Ron
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This is just tragic! I visited Jura in 2010 and the visit to the walled garden has stayed with me as a truly magical experience and one I shared with all my friends through the many photographs I took including the fabulous seed rack display with money into the Jam jar! I bought seeds which I treasured and grew this year. I was hoping to contact the Head gardener to try some other varieties of their extraordinary Nicotianas only to find this sad blog. I have told so many gardening friends of the Jura garden hoping to inspire them to visit and had myself planned to revisit in 2012. I feel very sad for the people of Jura for the impact that this new ownership has had, just terrible.
We had a truly fairy-tale experience visiting the gardens some years ago. Wet from cycling, we made straight for the tea tent to find it deserted (everyone was at the Islay Show), but laid out on a table were tins of delicious homebaking, a tea urn and a box for payment. The most magical afternoon-tea ever! On a later visit, I bought a beautiful and unusual plant which continues to give enormous pleasure. I came across this blog while trying to see if one could still rent Jura House (big family gathering in the offing) and feel so sad and disappointed about what has happened. And very sad for the islanders.
my wife and are so sad to hear about the garden on ardfin is closed,as i used to work in the garden with a lovely old man named willie cameron,we lived in the gate house cottage,next to the road.,we had some lovely times there,the gardens were well kept and lovely to look around ,,its really sad.
I echo what everyone has said in all the comments here and elsewhere. It is a wonderful garden in a terrific location.We love to visit the garden each time we come to Jura and had hoped to do so again later this summer. It is such a disappointment. What a loss to the island and all its visitors
[...] big, formal Scottish gardens make me sad now. Where we used to stay on Jura, there was a wonderful Victorian walled garden just above the island’s most lovely beach. It was fabulously, imaginatively tended and home, [...]
[...] big, formal Scottish gardens make me sad now. Where we used to stay on Jura, there was a wonderful Victorian walled garden just above the island’s most lovely beach. It was fabulously, imaginatively tended and home, [...]
[...] big, formal Scottish gardens make me sad now. Where we used to stay on Jura, there was a wonderful Victorian walled garden just above the island’s most lovely beach. It was fabulously, imaginatively tended and home, [...]
I will never forget opening the small black door in the wall for the first time…….. and being overwhelmed by the scent, colour and drama of this garden. It was a delightful magical afternoon that followed discovering the different gardens and sitting in the rain sharing a bench with strangers. I will never forget this..
It is so sad to think of this special place being closed – will it be opened again?
I am hoping so….
[...] 41 and worth nearly half a billion pounds, bought the Ardfin Estate on Jura he closed the popular Jura House Walled Garden and sealed off the entrance by closing the gap in the wall. Later the welcome sign ended up on a [...]
We hope that he will come to his senses and reinvigorate the sensational walled garden. As with all the previous posts, we can agree that the gardens remain some of the most enviable we have ever seen. Every year when we visited Jura during the Islay Festival, we made a special detour to the gardens, the tea tent (until closed) and to bask in the lovely grounds with birds picking up cake crumbs on the picnic tables. Such lovely views and walks from there remain in memory. If the golf course becomes a reality, maybe the walled garden can too.